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DCS Manuals, Plans and Handbooks

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• Adoption Best Practices Manual
• A Case Worker's Guide to Opening and Transitioning Cases
• Anonymous Voluntary Abandonment Information
• Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths (CANS) Assessment Manual
• Classification and Individual Program Plan Manual
• Client Rights Handbook / SPANISH Version
• DCS Basic Emergency Response Preparedness Plan
• Determinate Commitment Sentence Manual
• Documentation of the Family Functional Assessment Manual
• Documentation of the Resource Family Home Study
• Emergency Response Preparedness Planning Instruction Guide
• Employee Recognization and Appreciation Program Guidebook
• Evacuation Plan
• Exposure Control Manual for Blood Borne Pathogens
• Family Advocacy and Support Tool Manual
• HACCP Based Food Safety Plan for YDCs
• ICJ Practices and Procedures Manual
      ICJ Rules
• ICPC Practices and Procedures Manual
• Incident Reporting Manual for YDCs
• Institutional Maintenance and Construction Guidelines
• Identifying and Accessing Independent Living Services Manual
    • How to Enter Casey Life Skills Assessment Information in TFACTS
    • How to Create and Administer the Casey Life Skills Assessment
• Independent Living and Transition Planning Guide
    • Guide for Developing an Independent Living Plan for Youth Ages 14 and Up
    • Guide for Developing an Independent Living Plan for Youth Ages 17 and Up
    • Guide for Developing a Transition Plan for Young Adults Receiving Extension or Re-Establishment of         Foster Care Services
• Manual for Developing Policies and Procedures
• Occupational Safety and Health Program Plan
• Predisposition Report Manual
• Private Provider Manual (PPM) - effective 10/27/2008
• Profile of Parenting Study Tool Manual
• Safety Procedures Handbook-Cordell Hull
• Subsidy Manual
• Volunteer Coordinator's Procedures Manual
• Worst Case Scenarios-Tips for Off-Site Safety
• Youth and Family Intervention Agreement Procedure Manual

• Posters:
  Clients' Rights - English
  Clients' Rights - Spanish
  Parents' Bill of Rights - English
  Parents' Bill of Rights - Spanish
  It Shouldn't Hurt to be a Child 1
  It Shouldn't hurt to be a Child 2

• Brochures:
  Information for Women Under 18 Who Are Pregnant
  A Family's Rights - Multiple Response Approach
  Resource Parents - New Directions for a Child's Life
  Relative Caregiver
  Mobile Crisis Youth Villages (age 17 and under)
  Mobile Crisis Adult Services (age 18 and over)