STATE OF NEVADA - Division of Child and Family Services

Table 26: SFY 2010 Data for Item 17
Item 17: Needs and services of child, parents
and foster parents
CFSR 2009 NV Goal Goal Met
Statewide 37% 90%* No
Clark County 27% 90%* No
Washoe County 50% 90%* No
DCFS Rural Region 39% 90%* No
*Unless otherwise negotiated or if exceeds federal requirements
Item 18: Child and family involvement in case planning
Goal: To determine whether the State is making concerted efforts to involve parents and children (if developmentally
appropriate) in the case planning process on an ongoing basis.
To comply with this goal, the State must ensure that there are concerted efforts to actively involve the child (if
developmentally appropriate) and his or her parents in case planning and that these efforts are documented in UNITY in a
minimum of 90% of cases. Results in Table 27 from the CFSR conducted in 2009 indicate that this is an area needing
improvement for Nevada, as only 44% of cases statewide were rated as a strength in this area.
Table 27: SFY 2010 Data for Item 18
Item 18: Child and family involvement in case
planning
CFSR 2009 NV Goal Goal Met
Statewide 44% 90%* No
Clark County 29% 90%* No
Washoe County 75% 90%* No
DCFS Rural Region 35% 90%* No
*Unless otherwise negotiated or if exceeds federal requirements
Item 19: Caseworker visits with child
Goal: To determine whether the frequency and quality of visits between caseworkers and the child or children in the case
are sufficient to ensure the safety, permanency and well-being of the child and promote the achievement of case goals.
This goal refers to the frequency and quality of visits between the caseworker and child in care. To reach this goal, the
state must ensure that the frequency and quality of visits between the caseworker and child are sufficient to address
issues pertaining to the safety, permanency, and well-being of the child and promote the achievement of case goals and
that these visits are appropriately documented in UNITY. Table 28 below shows that this is an area needing improvement
for Nevada, as only 55% of the cases reviewed in the last CFSR met this requirement.
Table 28: SFY 2010 Data for Item 19
Item 19: Caseworker visits with child CFSR 2009 NV Goal Goal Met
Statewide 55% 90%* No
Clark County 62% 90%* No
Washoe County 67% 90%* No
DCFS Rural Region 33% 90%* No
*Unless otherwise negotiated or if exceeds federal requirements
To assist in reaching this goal DCFS is dispersing the caseworker visitation funds to the three child welfare agencies to
fund additional positions to expand caseworker visitation capacity, fund overtime for caseworkers to increase the number
of children visited, complete appropriate paperwork in a timely manner and to purchase needed equipment to facilitate
caseworker visits and documentation. In response to recent federal legislation PL ACYF-CB-07-08, the Information
Management System (IMS) staff developed a monthly report which tracks caseworker visitation as well as in placement
visitation based on the federal requirements. The new Federal guidelines were used to determine the monthly visitation
and in-placement visitation compliance rates and include the following provisions:
• Children who have been in custody for a full calendar month during the report period are included in the compliance
calculations “Custody Visit Months” and “In-Placement Visit Months” are calculated and displayed.
Nevada APSR – SFY 2010
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