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This policy reinforces CFSA's commitment to work cooperatively with District and community agencies, providers, citizens, advocates, and members of the media to promote public awareness about the Agency's policies as well as child and family services and issues.
This policy sets forth the procedures for CFSA policy development and provides comprehensive and uniform guidelines for staff decision-making authority and accountability.
GAPD
It is the policy of the Child and Family Services Agency (CFSA) to respond to all reports about child maltreatment (abuse and neglect) in a thorough, systematic, and timely manner.
It is CFSA policy to provide child-centered, family-focused, community-connected, strength-based and solution-focused services to families in their own homes....
The DC Child and Family Services Agency (CFSA) uses the nationally recognized Quality Service Review (QSR) process to assess CFSA’s practice standards and service delivery to clients of the District of Columbia’s child welfare system.
This policy establishes responsibilities for managing privacy risk in creating, collecting, maintaining, using, storing, transmitting, protecting, and destroying Personal Identifiable Information (i.e., name, Social Security Number, biometric records, date and place of birth, mother’s maide
The Quality Service Review examines case practice, systems, and outcomes for individual children and families to identify strengths and areas in need of improvement.
Visitation with parents, siblings, and other kin is a child’s right, not a privilege or something to be earned or denied based on behavior of the child or their parent(s).
An electronic signature is a basic term for a variety of methods used as an alternative to traditional ink signatures on paper. It involves a user’s interaction with a secure electronic application which eliminates the necessity of the production or use of a hard copy, printed form.
CFSA’s Grandparent Caregivers and Close Relative Caregivers Programs provide a monthly subsidy to promote stability and family connections for children in the care of their relatives.

