CFSP 5 Year Plan - RI Department of Children, Youth & Families

emain in full force and affect unless suspended or limited by the Director of the
Department or his/her designee.
o Execute contract with supplemental medical personnel to include medical as well
as psychiatric.
o Initiate established Contingency Plan including on call and call-back procedures
as needed.
o Implement in-house alternate care site plan with supplemental staff and requisite
medical supplies
o Utilize (as needed) stored inventories to include:
o Three week supply of potable water.
o Three week inventory of food (3 daily meals)
o Three week inventory of non-perishable food.
o Four week supply of medical and pharmaceutical supplies. o Three week
supply of control substance
o Extra bedding (mattress, sheets, blankets, pillows)
o Clean laundry (four weeks)
o Hygiene products (four weeks)
o Stored diesel fuel
o Confer with RI EMA regarding initiation of MOU for the National Guard to
provide additional potable water for drinking and a portable water trailer for
hygiene if necessary as well as portable toilets
o Initiate special watching and counseling protocols.
JUVENILE PROBATION:
o Identify, arrange, or in the event of an extensive disruption in statewide social
services, provide for ongoing Supervision and case management for Probation
youth in out of home placements.
o Probation Administrator will delegate the most senior Probation Officer in that
unit to replace their supervisor in the event of absence.
o Routine, crisis, and priority issues will be identified by the Probation
Administrator in concert with supervisory personnel.
o Support staff will engage in redeployment of their job functions throughout the
course of the pandemic or other emergency.
o Of necessity, whenever possible personnel are to limit personal contact and to
communicate by telephone, VPN, or fax if dictated by the type of emergency.
o For each office all individual phone lines will need to leave phone messages
indicating that urgent calls be directed to the main phone listed in the office
directory.
o During regular business hours, Probation staff/administrators will obtain from and
provide to, those on their caseloads, relevant information regarding health and
welfare concerns for the children in their care. In the event that children need to
be relocated due to medical issues affecting the caretakers, workers will contact
the Child Placement Unit, which will maintain a list of emergency placements in
the event that children need to be relocated.
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