Safety
Safety Outcome: Children who have been abused or maltreated will be protected from future abuse and maltreatment. Children will be safe from abuse or maltreatment in foster care.
Practice Strategies include:
- Strengthen the family engagement and cultural competency skills of child welfare caseworkers and supervisors as a means to strengthening the use of safety and risk assessment decision making tools.
- Implement and/or expand evidence-based or promising programs that reduce future child abuse and maltreatment
- Expand implementation of trauma-informed strategies in congregate foster care
- Expand physical restraint-reduction initiatives in congregate foster care
- Strengthen certification standards and training for foster family care
- Other local innovations and initiative