STATE OF NEVADA - Division of Child and Family Services

In addition, WCDSS individually contracted with ACTION for Child Protection to conduct the Consultative Supervision
training for their own supervisors. ACTION provided safety training to the Legal and Court partners in Washoe County in
June 2010. A particular strength for this agency is that they were able to secure resources to ensure that all supervisors
attended the training, which received exceptionally high ratings. Supervisors actively engaged in discussions and were
receptive to the consultant/trainer’s recommendations. A challenge for this agency is that ongoing training with case
specific situations during supervisor meetings has been initiated, but was not consistently maintained. Consistent
understanding of the safety model, including terminology across the entire child welfare system (courts, district attorneys,
public defenders, etc) is a continuing issue. CCDFS also implemented internal trainings using the CPS Investigations – a
Social Child Safety Intervention curriculum over the past year.
CFSP Goals and Objectives for Safety
In the 2010-2014 CFSP, each performance indicator was given an overall goal and one or more objectives. Each of the
objectives are to be assessed through the development of data reports from the UNITY system or through qualitative
means such as surveys or qualitative case reviews. This process is under development and will not be finalized until the
new Program Improvement Plan is approved. UNITY reports are under development and are not planned to be
completed until the spring of 2011. Therefore, for the purposes of the SFY 2010 APSR report, the data from the CFSR
conducted in August 2009 is being used to show performance on each performance indicator as a whole. Where reports
do currently exist, those reports are also included to address individual objectives. Unless otherwise noted, all objective
reports are under development at this time. Figure 7 shows a brief graph of how Nevada rated statewide in the 2009
CFSR on individual performance indicators for safety.
Figure 07: Statewide Safety Performance Indicator Scores vs. 90% goal
Safety Performance Indicator Scores from 2009 CFSR
CFSR Goal of 90%
Item 1
86%
Item 2
81%
Item 3
78%
Item 4
55%
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
Source: Nevada 2009 CFSR Federal Report
Nevada APSR – SFY 2010
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