STATE OF NEVADA - Division of Child and Family Services

input has been used and how information has been shared with the stakeholders throughout the year between annual
reviews.
In addition to those activities listed in a similar objective in Item 38, DCFS also engages in several stakeholder groups as
outlined in the Decision Making Process narrative in Section 1 of this document. These groups include:
1. Decision Making Group made up of the DCFS Administrator and Rural Region Manager and the Directors of WCDSS
and CCDFS. This group meets on the third Friday of each month.
2. Training Management Team made up of the DCFS Social Services Chief III (Training Manager); Training managers
from each child welfare agency, a member from Differential Response and the Training Coordinators from each of the
State’s two University Departments of Social Work. This group meets on the second Monday of each month with
additional subcommittee workgroups meeting as often as weekly. Recommendations from this group that require
DMG approval are submitted to the DMG meeting in the month following the meeting where the recommendation is
made.
3. Policy Approval Review Team made up of upper management from DCFS’s Family Programs Office, Information
Management Systems, Rural Region and Juvenile Justice Offices and upper management from CCDFS and WCDSS.
Individual workgroups that develop policy include additional stakeholders as required by the subject matter. The
workgroups meet as often as required to complete the necessary policy development or revision. PART meets on the
first Wednesday of each month to review policy. When a policy is recommended for approval by DMG, it is placed on
the DMG agenda in the month following the PART meeting where the recommendation was made to ensure that the
policy is polished before it reaches the final approval process.
4. Statewide Quality Improvement Committee made up of managers and specialists from DCFS’s Family Programs
Office, Information Management Systems, Rural Region and managers from CCDFS and WCDSS. This team also
brings in external stakeholders when appropriate to review quality improvement activities. This committee has two
subcommittees that are working on the revisions to the Quality Improvement Framework and Quantitative and
Qualitative Data reports.
These teams use a variety of methods to ensure that statewide policies, training and quality improvement activities related
to Safety, Permanency, Well-Being, and Systemic Performance Indicators are reviewed and up-to-date. In the 2009
Nevada CFSR report, this item was rates as a strength. This continues to be a strength for Nevada.
Item 40: Coordination of CFSP services with other federal programs
Goal: The State will ensure that the services identified under the CFSP are coordinated with the services or benefits of
other Federal or federally assisted programs serving the same populations.
To meet this goal, the State must provide ongoing opportunities for stakeholders to provide input and report on the
activities engaged in by a variety of stakeholder groups to ensure that the appropriate stakeholders and other key federal
programs are involved in the development of regulation, policy, training and proposed changes in practice. To do this, the
State must coordinate with key Federal programs. The following is a list of advisory boards/committees/workgroups and
or projects the Division utilizes when gathering information needed for the CFSP/ASPR:
• Administrative Team to Review the Death of Children
• CIP - Court Improvement Project
• CJA - Children's Justice Act Task Force
• Clark County Department of Family Services
• Clark County Foster and Adoptive Parent Association
• CRP - Citizens Review Panels
• Executive Committee to Review the Death of Children
• ICWA Steering Committee
• Inter-Tribal Council of Nevada
• Nevada Division of Child and Family Services – Rural Region
• Nevada Partnership for Training
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