SAFE, PRIDE, OnLAC

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SAFE, PRIDE, OnLAC

• Presentation
• June 27, 2007
• Ministry of Children and Youth Services
• South East Region

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POLICY DIRECTIVE 003-06.

• Implementation of SAFE (Structured Analysis
  Family Evaluation) Pre-service PRIDE (Parent
  Resource for Information, Development and
  Education) and OnLAC (Ontario Looking After
  Children) for Childrens Aid Societies.

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This policy directive will come into effect on
December 4, 2006. Specific implementation
timelines are as follows

• Program Effective date
• SAFE December 4, 2006
• PRIDE April 2, 2007
• OnLAC December 3, 2007

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Principles

• A strengths and outcomes-based approach to case
  planning,
• A recognition of childrens need for continuity
  with family, community and culture, and,
• A commitment to consistent best practices,
  including a focus on safety.

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Purpose

• Assessment of capacity and motivation of
  potential families
• Education and support to families building upon
  family competencies
• Strength-based assessment and case planning for
  children and youth to achieve positive outcomes

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Structured Family Analysis Family AssessmentSAFE

• SAFE is a comprehensive set of homestudy
  assessment tools, techniques and values for the
  analysis and evaluation of prospective foster or
  adoptive families. SAFE was developed by the
  Consortium for Children in California to
  determine if the family is a viable, safe
  placement for children and to determine the
  elements of a specific plan to support the family
  in the care of children.

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Parent Resource for Information, Development and
Education PRIDE

• PRIDE is a practice model and curriculum designed
  to strengthen the quality of family-based care by
  providing a competency based framework for
  training and supporting caregivers and adoptive
  parents. PRIDE was developed by the Child
  Welfare League of America. PRIDE is divided into
  two parts Pre-service and In-service (or
  ongoing).

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Ontario Looking After Children OnLAC

• OnLAC includes an assessment tool (Assessment and
  Action Record) that is used at the case level to
  develop an individual childs Plan of Care, at
  the management level providing outcome data that
  can assist an agency in developing needed
  services and programs for all children in care
  and at the Ministry level providing key marker
  outcome data to support continuous improvement in
  policy and program design. Research support for
  OnLAC is provided by the University of Ottawa.
  Looking After Children was developed in the
  United Kingdom.