OAR 413-015-1220: Assessment of an Individual's Involvement in Safety Management

(1) To assess an individual as a safety service provider for a specific family in a protective action plan, initial safety plan, or an ongoing safety plan, the CPS worker or caseworker must take all of the following actions: (a) Identify and contact an individual who is a prospective safety service provider. (b) Gather information from the individual regarding his or her: (A) Relationship with the child and the child's family; and (B) Willingness and ability to fulfill the specific role and responsibilities of a safety service provider for the identified family. (c) Provide the individual with information regarding the specific role and responsibility of the individual to assist in managing the child's safety. (d) Search the Child Welfare electronic information system and review any historic information regarding the individual that may be useful in assessing the individual's ability to be a safety service provider. (e) If in an individual's role as a safety service provider the individual will have contact with the child, conduct a criminal records check on the individual using LEDS, provide LEDS notice as described in "Access to Law Enforcement Data System in Local Child Welfare Offices" OAR 413-015-1100 to 413-015-1125, and review the individual's criminal history to assess the individual's ability to be a safety service provider. (2) After the CPS worker or caseworker has considered all the information gathered pursuant to section (1) of this rule, the CPS worker or caseworker must determine the individual's suitability as a safety service provider. In making this determination, the worker must consider whether the individual is willing and able to: (a) Assist in managing the safety of the child; (b) Cooperate with any restrictions on contact between the child and others; (c) Support, verbally and through actions, the protective action plan, initial safety plan, and ongoing safety plan; and (d) Fulfill the identified role and responsibilities required of the individual in a protective action plan, initial safety plan, or an ongoing safety plan. (3) The CPS worker or caseworker must consult with and receive approval from a supervisor prior to engaging an individual as a safety service provider whenever the individual's past behaviors, conditions, or circumstances include one of the items listed in the subsections of this section so long as those behaviors, conditions, or circumstances do not impact negatively the individual's ability to fulfill the specific role and responsibilities in managing the child's safety: (a) A record of abuse; (b) A criminal history; or (c) A history of drug or alcohol abuse. (4) The CPS worker or caseworker must document in the Child Welfare electronic information system: (a) The basis for the determination regarding whether an individual is suitable as a safety service provider; and (b) The supervisor who provided the approval required in section (3) of this rule.