CFSA’s first priority toward families and their children is working to ensure the safety of the children. An effective tool to facilitate and promote the family’s efforts to keep children safe is a formal, signed safety plan. A safety plan clearly describes immediate threats to the child(ren)’s safety, and details how those threats will be managed to mitigate, or eliminate altogether, the child’s risk of being unsafe. They are time-limited, and require consistent re-evaluation among the participants in the plans.

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