Treatment Team Meetings

Treatment Team Meeting – A meeting held every 60 days with the treatment team to discuss current progress in therapy, needs of the resource family, strengths of the child, current behaviors, participation in services, therapeutic parenting, family time updates, crisis intervention and updates regarding training. The treatment team consists of the child (if appropriate), service providers, EFC team, resource specialist, child’s specialist, resource parents, biological parents (if appropriate), tribal staff, specialized child welfare workers and CASA. 

Each Team member should attend prepared to discuss the following during the treatment team meeting: 

Service Provider(s)  

  • Update on current individual therapy – frequency and location of sessions, treatment modality, and progress on treatment plan 
  • Update on current family component (family therapy, wraparound, PCIT/CPP/TBRI, etc.) – frequency and location of sessions and progress on treatment plan 
  • Outline two (2) skills worked on with the Foster Parent(s), such as parenting, coping, or emotional regulation 
  • Describe two (2) ways support has been provided to the Foster Parent(s), such as attending IEP or school meetings or connecting the family to other services 

Foster Parent(s) 

  • Update on child’s behaviors and well-being since the last EFC meeting – including nature, frequency, and duration of escalated/dysregulated episodes  
  • Applying things learned in Pressley Ridge training to the child 
  • Discussion of implementing therapeutic parenting – the type of intentional parenting that fosters the feelings of safety and connectedness so that a traumatized child can begin to heal and learn how to securely attach 
  • Support systems and any formal or informal respite plans 
  • Any unaddressed needs of the child or the family

Permanency Planning Team

  • Brief update on the Permanency Planning case – current Case Plan Goal and Family Time Plan  
  • Child Behavioral Health Screeners completed since the last EFC meeting – including any escalated scores, patterns, and progressions  
  • Any observations or reports on the child’s behaviors and well-being since the last EFC meeting 
  • Any unaddressed needs of the child

Resource Team

  • Enrollment/completion dates of Foster Parent Pressley Ridge training 
  • Any observations of Foster Parent’s progress toward implementing therapeutic parenting skills, fostering the child’s feelings of safety and connectedness 
  • Any unaddressed needs of the family 

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