Comprehensive Child and Family Assessments (CCFA)
Family assessments are used to assist decision-making regarding placement and needs of children entering foster care and their families. The Child and Family Comprehensive Assessment (CCFA) is initiated soon after the child enters care. The child and his/her family, both immediate and extended, are engaged in the assessment process.
DFCS Entitlement Codes that can authorize Comprehensive Child and Family Assessments Services
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- 511-29E | CCFA – Initial Family Assessment – first/oldest child | $935 each
- 511-29F | CCFA – Additional Child in Sibling Group Entering Foster care | $220 each
Benefits of Comprehensive Child and Family Assessments
The Family Assessment is the foundation of the family case plan and will also assist in working with the child and family to gain a better understanding of the:
- Degree of parent-child attachment and placement where the child feels a sense of belonging
- Child’s extended family as a potential resource for support and/or the placement of the child
- Family’s history and/or patterns of behavior; e.g., prior Child Protective Services (CPS) involvement or foster care placements, past experience with handling crisis, problems with addiction, criminal behavior, etc.
- Strengths and resources
- Core needs of the family which, at a minimum, must be changed or corrected for the child to be safely returned within a reasonable period of time
- Recommendations for the children) if returned home or the likelihood of an alternative permanency plan if reunification is not possible
- Identified medical, emotional, social, educational, and placement-related needs of the child
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