Unit Overview: The purpose of this unit is to provide new child welfare professionals with an understanding of their mission and the legal underpinnings of that mission upon which DCF’s Child Welfare/Child Protection Unit is built. Learning Objectives: Discuss DCF’s core mission and vision. Explain the purpose of Florida’s Welfare Protection System. Explain the law and policy undergirding the mission of the FL DCF Trainer Instructions and Script: Display slide 8.1.4: Unit 8.1: DCF Mission and Legal Basis (PG:) Display 8.1.5: Learning Objectives (PG:) Display Slide 8.1.6: Formula for the Unsafe Child (PG:) Say: In your last module, you learned that as the result of many different things, including domestic violence, substance abuse, mental illness, among other things, children become unsafe. This lack of safety occurs when there is a vulnerable child is in the presence of a danger threat, and the parent/caregiver has insufficient capacity to protect the child. Display Slide 8.1.7: The State’s Protective Role with Children (PG:) Say: This module describes the work of the Florida Department of Children and Families and its formal and informal community partners in its essential work of protecting vulnerable children and promoting parent/caregiver and family recovery and resilience. the parent/caregiver is unwilling and/or unable to make the essential changes and sustain those changes so that they can protect their – – child, it is the work of the Department also through the work of – Florida’s Child Protection System to terminate the parent’s rights –
Unit Overview: The purpose of this unit is to provide new child welfare professionals with an understanding of their mission and the legal underpinnings of that mission upon which DCF’s Child Welfare/Child Protection Unit is built. Learning Objectives: Discuss DCF’s core mission and vision. Explain the purpose of Florida’s Welfare Protection System. Explain the law and policy undergirding the mission of the FL DCF Trainer Instructions and Script: Display slide 8.1.4: Unit 8.1: DCF Mission and Legal Basis (PG:) Display 8.1.5: Learning Objectives (PG:) Display Slide 8.1.6: Formula for the Unsafe Child (PG:) Say: In your last module, you learned that as the result of many different things, including domestic violence, substance abuse, mental illness, among other things, children become unsafe. This lack of safety occurs when there is a vulnerable child is in the presence of a danger threat, and the parent/caregiver has insufficient capacity to protect the child. Display Slide 8.1.7: The State’s Protective Role with Children (PG:) Say: This module describes the work of the Florida Department of Children and Families and its formal and informal community partners in its essential work of protecting vulnerable children and promoting parent/caregiver and family recovery and resilience. the parent/caregiver is unwilling and/or unable to make the essential changes – and sustain those changes – so that they can protect their child, it is the work of the Department – also through the work of Florida’s Child Protection System – to terminate the parent’s rights
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