Starla Hall

Local Permanency Supervisor and CVS Supervisor. Covered two units for 8 1/2 years then went to only covering LPS unit.

LPS unit covers all children placed in region 5 from any other region and SSCC in Texas. LPS ensures that all children placed in region 5 are seen monthly and documented. Cover all ICPC cases.

Supervisor Responsibilities:

• Cover the ISY mailbox and assign all cases.

• Reading and approving all ICPC home studies and overseeing all ICPC cases on a monthly basis.

•Establishing and maintaining effective working relationships with all Community Holders.

• Supervise a unit of caseworkers responsible for providing monthly FTF visits with children in the home and documenting the visit timely as a secondary worker.

• Plans and manages unit operations by monitoring caseloads, consulting with staff on case related issues, approving leave, and holding individual conferences and unit meetings.

• Manage and develop staff through unit in-service training, field visits with staff, review of performance data, individual conferences, agency sponsored training, and performance appraisal.

• Interprets program policy and procedures to unit staff, • Evaluates unit performance through case readings, computer reports, and observation of unit operations to ensure compliance with policy, procedures, and service control requirements.

Additional responsibilities for CVS unit

• Develops and maintains effective working relationships between Child Protective Services staff, Child Welfare boards, the general public, legal, medical, educational, and other community resources.

• Makes casework decisions regarding the removal and placement of children, and works with county and district attorneys on legal measures to initiate on child protective services cases.

• Work well with a variety of levels of staff inside and outside the agency in order to secure appropriate placements, resources, and services to meet children’s needs.

• Articulate placement issues and specific needs for children.

• Clearly document the specific needs and the services required to meet the child’s needs.

• Promote, monitor, and ensure that respect is demonstrated for cultural diversity.

• Ensure that workers attends work regularly in accordance with agency leave policy.

• Demonstrate knowledgeable of CPS program policies and procedures, applicable laws and regulations.

• Be knowledgeable of resources and services available for children and ensure that workers are as well.

• Same skills needed as a Supervisor II.

• Provide Child Protective Services to children in substitute care as a secondary worker.
• Provide time limited services to meet the specific needs of children in substitute care and ensure that all their needs are being met.
• Maintain contact with the children's primary worker and assist worker when necessary.
• Provide primary worker with the children's progress and any needs of the children in order for an appropriate assessment of their educational, medical and physical needs can be made.
• Enter contact, documentation information and narratives into IMPACT within required agency time frames.
• Developed and maintain effective working relationships with private CPA and staff, RTC's, foster parents and relatives that are caring for the children.

• Provides direct services to children and families for the Child Protective Services program to include intake and investigation for Shelby County
• provides ongoing casework
• night and weekend on-call
• court related work
• substituted case placement and supervision of children
• preparation of children for adoption
• community presentations
• responds to Interstate Compact for Placement of Children requests
• and performs other related work as assigned.
• Develops and maintains working relationships with clients, all levels of agency staff, law enforcement, legal, medical, educational, and other community and agency professionals.
• Investigates presence of risk of child abuse and /or neglect; interviews, assesses situations of children and documents according to agency policy and procedures
• provides case planning for children in substitute care and /or FPS conservatorship and their families through the preparation of service plans
• obtains resources to help clients meet their needs and negotiation of the objectives of their service plans
• monitors children's progress through monthly home visits in homes
• assesses and prepares case plans that reflect client's problems, needs and strengths
• uses agency contracted and other available resources in the community to meet the needs of children and their families.
• Schedules court hearing within policy and legal guidelines
• testifies in court and prepares court reports
• notifies appropriate parties of court hearings; and provides service plans, court reports and orders to the necessary parties.