Pregnant and Parenting Youth Tools to Support Pregnant and Parenting Youth in Care
Pregnant and Parenting Youth
Tools to Support Pregnant and Parenting Youth in Care
Welcome Today we will cover: Utilizing the Pregnant
and Parenting Teen Guidebook and tip sheets
Shared Planning Meeting Requirements
Identifying and referring for needed services
Health & Safety Visit Requirements
Documenting in FamLink
Competencies
Competencies for Case Workers:SW214-02 Understands service needs of sexually active youth, pregnant and parenting teens, including the need for birth control and dating violence prevention and educationSW217-01 Ability to provide or identify and refer for children and youth individualized supportive and treatment services as needs emergeSW219-03 Ability to work with parents to help them use information and skills, and resources, developed from service provision to strengthen their ability to provide safe care to their childrenSW219-04 Ability to use the Shared Planning process to promote collaboration, shared-decision making, and discuss progress and/or barriers to successful outcomes
Competencies
Competencies for Supervisors:SUP207-09 Ability to model, coach, and monitor staff in developing and implementing accurate and timely case plans for families and relevance of servicesSUP207-10 Ability to model, coach, and monitor staff in developing and implementing case plans for families that promote accurate objectives and culturally responsive services/resources to address child safety and families’ needsSUP207-12 Ability to support worker’s involvement in advocating for children and families in other service systemsSUP207-13 Ability to monitor children’s education status and guide staff in utilizing resources and tools to develop educational plans
A Crucial Connection: Working Together to Address Teen Pregnancy Among Youth in Foster Care
www.thenationalcampaign.org
https://thenationalcampaign.org/resource/crucial-connection#
Initial thoughts about the video we just watched?
Have you ever had a parenting father on your caseload?
Examples of how Social Workers and Caregivers can support pregnant and parenting youth in care.
Discussion:
Learning Outcomes
Ability to provide pregnant and
parenting mothers and fathers with
information about their rights and the duties and
responsibilities of Children's
Administration
Learning Outcomes
Understand the requirement to conduct a Shared Planning Meeting
within ten days of the youth’s disclosure of
pregnancy
Learning Outcomes
Ability to identify and refer for needed services
Learning Outcomes
Understand discussion and assessment
requirements associated with Health and Safety
visits
Learning Outcomes
Ability to document aspects of pregnant and
parenting youth in FamLink
Tools to Support Pregnant and Parenting Youth in Care
Shared Planning Meetings
Must occur within 10 days of the youth’s disclosure of pregnancy
Identify needed services
Identify how the youth will be supported to make healthy decisions
Discuss Tribal enrollment if applicable
Distribute the Guidebook & Tip Sheets
Shared Planning Meetings: supporting youth to engage in services and make connections
It’s important for youth to engage in services: Medical Educational Parenting Social/Emotional Chemical Dependency
Shared Planning Meetings: supporting youth to engage in services and make connections
Comprehensive Continuum of Services supporting meaningful connections: Services to help youth
“heal, learn and grow” Gender & Culturally
Responsive Trauma Informed Strengths-based
Pai-Espinosa, J. Y. (2010). Young mothers at the margin, why pregnant teens need support. Children's VOICE, 13-16. Retrieved from www.cwla.org
Shared Planning Meetings: supporting youth to engage in services and make connections
Preparing youth for the stress of parenthood: Early & Periodic assessment
of parenting beliefs, skills & interactions
Comprehensive services to address; parenting skills, expectations of child development & their own adolescent development
Budd, K. S., Holdsworth, M. J., & HogenBruen, K. D. (2006). Antecedents an concomitants of parenting stress in adolescent mothers in foster care. Child Abuse & Neglect, 30, 557-574. doi:10.1016/j.chiabu.2005.11.006
Shared Planning Meetings: supporting youth to engage in services and make connections
Engagement in services can help youth:
Build positive connections with: Peers Mentors
Develop: Healthy Relationships Natural Supports
Who to invite?• Work in table groups
• Based on the scenario, who would you invite to Aimee’s SPM?
Who to invite?Report Back
Services
Think about:• Educational Needs• Mental Health Support• Chemical Dependency Treatment• Basic Needs• Parenting Support & Home Visiting Services
Accessing Services
• ILP• Community Mental
Health/Infant Mental Health
• Safe Babies Safe Moms• Medical Care, TANF &
WIC• Early Head Start• Nurse Family Partnership
• Parents as Teachers• Circle of Security• Incredible Years• Triple P• NCAST Assessment• Safe Sleep• Period of Purple Crying• ASQ developmental
assessment…..
Connections
Health Care
Education Social Services
Lachance, C. R., Barrus, B. B., & Scott, A. R. (2012). Building an evidence base to inform interventions for pregnant and parenting adolescents: A call for rigorous evaluation. American Journal of Public Health, 102(10), 1826-1832.
Health & Safety Visits
Important Policy – Practices and Procedures Manual
• 4420 Health and Safety Visits (https://
www.dshs.wa.gov/ca/4400-tanf-benefits/4420health-and-safety-visits-children-and-monthly-visits-caregivers-and-parents)
• 43066 Pregnant and Parenting Youth (https://
www.dshs.wa.gov/ca/4306-filing-petition-terminate-parental-rights/43066-pregnant-and-parenting-youth)
• 1135 Infant Safety Education and Intervention (https://
www.dshs.wa.gov/ca/1100-child-safety/1135-infant-safety-education-and-intervention)
Pregnant Youth
Discuss/Assess/Document:Pregnancy servicesReferrals to community
resourcesThe needs of the unborn
child after the 28th week of pregnancy
Placement options Education and ILP needsFatherhood Engagement
Parenting Youth
Discuss/Assess/Document:Accessing medical services The youth’s role as a
parent Referrals to community
resourcesEducation and ILP needsFatherhood EngagementTribal Enrollment if
applicable Infant Safety Policy
Infant Safety
Discuss/Assess/Document:
Newborn: Plan of Safe Care 0-6 months: Period of
Purple Crying 0-12 months: Infant Safe
Sleep
Caregivers
• Supplemental rate• Parenting the Youth
while coaching the youth to parent
• Supports and Services available for the Caregiver
• Caregiver Tip Sheet• Potential for conflict
Mitigating Conflict between parenting youth and their caregivers• Work in table groups
• Based on the scenario, how would you mitigate conflict between Aimee and her aunt?
Mitigating Conflict between parenting youth and their caregivers
Report Back
Safety & Permanency
Safety & Permanency
Most common concern for safe parenting is unrealistic expectations of child development
Assessment of the youth’s ability to safely parent is crucial!
Aparicio, E., Pecukonis, E. V., & O'Neale, S. (2015). "The love that I was missing": Exploring the lived experience of motherhood among teen mothers in foster care.Children and Youth Services Review, 51, 44-54. Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2015.02.002
Teen parents are disproportionately represented in the child welfare system
The children of teen parents are disproportionately represented in the child welfare system
Safety & Permanency
Physical safety of the child’s environmentParental stress and stress responsesThe Youth’s understanding of appropriate
developmental expectationsParent-child interactions, including the Youth’s
ability to interpret and respond to the infant’s cues
The caregiver’s impression of the Youth’s ability to safely parent
Safety & Permanency
Helping Youth Build a Community
Safety & Permanency
Community is a big piece of permanency for youth
The permanent plan might look different now
Safety & Permanency
Transparency in addressing safety concernsTaking protective action and Safety Planning
FTDM’s and Case PlanningDependency Actions
FAMLINK
Health/Mental Health Record: All Medical Care
FAMLINK
Person Management Page: teen parent selection
FAMLINK
Foster Care Rate: basic foster care with non-dependent child
Reminders/Q&A
• All efforts should be made to keep the child(ren) and teen parent together• Only file a petition when all efforts to keep the child(ren) and family safe
have been exhausted• Ask males on your caseload if they are fathers• Link pregnant and/or parenting teens to the different community
resources • Teen parents are balancing adolescence with parenthood• Teen parents will sometimes struggle with rules and roles within the
placement• Document, document and document!
Closure & Evaluations
Thank you!
Please take a moment to complete the course evaluation.