7.3.5  Contact with Treatment Providers

The Children’s Service Worker should contact treatment providers within the 90-day treatment period to determine the family's responsiveness to treatment issues.  The worker and treatment provider will discuss:

1. Family's attendance at sessions;
2. Family's level of participation in treatment;
3. Specific issues which are being addressed and how;
4. Family's loss and grief issues;
5. Whether family is currently or likely to benefit from the current treatment methodology or is another approach needed;
6. How the provider measures outcomes of treatment;
7. Other services needed;
8. Timetable for resolution of identified issues and concerns;
9. Recommendations regarding return home of the child, changes in visitation plan, and continuation of treatment; and
10. Request reports, if overdue.