Supporting Quality Parenting Through Information Sharing (CA)

1. Resource parents may share information about the child or family to others in order to:

Secure care, supervision or education of the child

Let their friends know how much the child has been through

Make the family own up to what they have done

Show the kind of sacrifice they are making in caring for the child

2. Sharing information is important to

Meet the needs of a child in care

Expose the real problems that each person has

Make others own up to their shortcomings

Hold people accountable

3. QPI site information sharing practices include:

Setting clear expectations on information sharing

Identifying policy and applicable legal provisions

Notifying resource parents and other stakeholders on information sharing practices

All answers are correct

4. Consequences of unauthorized sharing:

All answers are correct

Loss of trust

Civil or criminal sanctions

Loss of license, approval, funding

5. Information that is not protected includes:

Confidential Information

Records

Personally identifiable information

Non-personally identifiable information

6. It is important to protect information to:

All answers are correct

Prevent denial of discretionary services

Protect personal or family security

Avoid embarrassment and humiliation

7. NMDs stands for:

Normalcy Mentoring Days

Nominal Mandatory Duties

Non-Minor Dependents

No answers are correct

8. Social workers are required to share relevant family background information when making a placement. However they need parental consent to share confidential information from records with restrictions on disclosure.

True

False

9. The agency may share with resource parents information about the court case including information in the court report and other documents filed in the case. However, many counties require the following to provide resource parents with a copy of the court report:

Case plan

Court order

Trial report

Agreement form

10. Child abuse reports and investigation records can be shared with all members of the team.

True

False