202: The Casey Life Skills Assessment. The Pennsylvania Child Welfare Resource Center Learning Objectives Operate the Casey Life Skills Tools and web.

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202: The Casey Life Skills Assessment

The Pennsylvania Child Welfare Resource Center Learning Objectives Operate the Casey Life Skills Tools and web site; Recognize the philosophy and practice behind assessment and planning; and, Employ the Casey Life Skills Assessment (CLSA) with youth. 2

202: The Casey Life Skills Assessment The Pennsylvania Child Welfare Resource Center Do you have additional objectives for today? 3

202: The Casey Life Skills Assessment The Pennsylvania Child Welfare Resource Center Current Practice How are you and your colleagues assessing youth’s needs? What do you do with the results? 4

202: The Casey Life Skills Assessment The Pennsylvania Child Welfare Resource Center Foundations of Casey’s work Youth centered; Expert-focused; Strength-based; Developmentally appropriate; Diverse and anti-racist; and Useful for setting case goals. 5

202: The Casey Life Skills Assessment The Pennsylvania Child Welfare Resource Center Youth-Driven and Strength-Based Developed with youth –“Nothing about us without us!” Asks what youth are capable of –“Knows or is able to…” 6

202: The Casey Life Skills Assessment The Pennsylvania Child Welfare Resource Center What is the Casey Life Skills Assessment? Free, online tool that assess youth’s life skills A measure of youth confidence in their future and permanent connections to caring adults Designed to be as free as possible from gender, ethnic, and cultural biases Comprehensive with 113 assessment items categorized into 8 areas for skills, knowledge, and awareness 7

202: The Casey Life Skills Assessment The Pennsylvania Child Welfare Resource Center Is the CLSA a test? NO! It is a self reporting instrument that gives youth and caregivers an opportunity to focus on their strengths and identify any challenge areas Promotes youths’ active engagement in planning and making decisions about their future 8

202: The Casey Life Skills Assessment The Pennsylvania Child Welfare Resource Center What areas are assessed? Daily Living Self Care Relationships and Communication Housing and Money Management Work and Study Career and Education Planning Looking Forward Permanency 9

202: The Casey Life Skills Assessment The Pennsylvania Child Welfare Resource Center CLSA Assessment Supplements American Indian Healthy Pregnancy Parenting Infants Parenting Children Assessing Youth Ages 8-9, Homeless LGBTQ 10

202: The Casey Life Skills Assessment The Pennsylvania Child Welfare Resource Center CLSA Education Supplements Upper Elementary School Middle School or Junior High School High School Postsecondary Education or Training Education Supports 11

202: The Casey Life Skills Assessment The Pennsylvania Child Welfare Resource Center Casey Life Skills Tools AssessmentResults The Conversation Learning Plan InstructionApplication Monitoring 12

202: The Casey Life Skills Assessment The Pennsylvania Child Welfare Resource Center Getting Started Create a provider account at Create personal login Invite/Add caseworkers Requesting a user account Editing provider profile and other administrative functions 13

202: The Casey Life Skills Assessment The Pennsylvania Child Welfare Resource Center Accessing the Website 14

202: The Casey Life Skills Assessment The Pennsylvania Child Welfare Resource Center How to Complete an Assessment: Youth Four options for youth –Take assessment on caseworker’s computer –Complete assessment via web link –Use printed assessment –Use his or her login account with user name and password 15

202: The Casey Life Skills Assessment The Pennsylvania Child Welfare Resource Center How to Complete an Assessment: Caregivers Three options for caregivers –Take assessment on caseworker’s computer –Complete assessment via web link –Use printed assessment Be sure to create the caregiver assessment from the correct youth name 16

202: The Casey Life Skills Assessment The Pennsylvania Child Welfare Resource Center Completing an Assessment and Understanding the Results 17

202: The Casey Life Skills Assessment The Pennsylvania Child Welfare Resource Center The Conversation – How to Discuss the Assessment Results Always begin with the areas of strength. Move to areas of challenge – never weaknesses. What is the area of greatest disagreement? Identify learning goals. 18

202: The Casey Life Skills Assessment The Pennsylvania Child Welfare Resource Center Understanding Individual Learning Style Auditory Kinesthetic Visual 19

202: The Casey Life Skills Assessment The Pennsylvania Child Welfare Resource Center Learning Levels Awareness Knowledge and understanding Knows how to… Can or is able to…. 20

202: The Casey Life Skills Assessment The Pennsylvania Child Welfare Resource Center Knows How To… 21

202: The Casey Life Skills Assessment The Pennsylvania Child Welfare Resource Center Can or is able to… 22

202: The Casey Life Skills Assessment The Pennsylvania Child Welfare Resource Center Developing a Learning Plan 23

202: The Casey Life Skills Assessment The Pennsylvania Child Welfare Resource Center Questions and Answers 24