Central California Training Academy
The California Child Welfare Practice Model
Overview
The CA Child Welfare Practice Model (CPM) is a statewide effort led by the counties to develop and implement a framework to support child welfare practice and allow child welfare professionals to be more effective in their roles. The CPM is intended to guide practice, service delivery, and decision-making at all levels, Child Welfare social workers and leaders, in sustaining and improving practice. See below for more information on CPM and the implementation work of CCTA
What's new
After 10 years, the California Child Welfare Core Practice Model Brochure has been revised to include feedback from Child Welfare directors, practitioners, Tribes, and subject matter experts. This update was needed to incorporate CPM prevention-related behaviors and ensure CPM thoroughly addresses issues of race, equity, diversity, inclusion, and Tribal sovereignty.
Connection to ICPM
The relationship between the Child Welfare Core Practice Model (CPM) and the Integrated Core Practice Model (ICPM) is often unclear. Here are some key components that we hope will help you make the connection.
The Child Welfare Core Practice Model (CPM) is not different from, but is embedded
in, the ICPM.
For California Child Welfare agencies, implementing the Integrated Core Practice Model
(ICPM) means installing and implementing the California Child Welfare Core Practice
Model (CPM), which outlines behaviors throughout the time a family is involved in
the system, ensuring its emphasis on engagement, relationship, and partnership behaviors
in coordination with partner systems that are being asked to adopt the values, principles,
and practice behaviors in the ICPM
There is a challenge to each child-and-family-serving profession to describe, install
and implement a Practice Model approach—specific to their profession, to be combined
within an Integrated Core Practice Model that defines how these professions should
work together for the benefit of children, youth and families.
For CDSS, in its relationship with other agencies, implementing the ICPM means supporting the implementation of the CPM in California Child Welfare agencies and promoting a parallel approach in the other child-and-family-serving professions, including Probation and Behavioral Health.
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