7.7 Desired Outcomes
- Outcome Goal: Child Safety
Children shall be safe from abuse and neglect. The goal for child safety is to protect children from harm, prevent abuse/neglect, and reduce the risks to their safety or well-being.
- Outcome Goal: Improved Child Functioning
Improved child functioning, recognizes that children have essential needs for care that go beyond child safety. Services must be provided to support and enhance a child’s capacity to experience normal social, educational, physical, and vocational development. The assumption is that improved child functioning will result in improved outcomes related to the child’s long-term accomplishments.
- Outcome Goal: Improved Family Functioning
Improved family functioning, provides services that shall support and enhance parents’ and families’ capacity to safely care for and nurture their children. The assumption is that improved functioning of the family will result in improved outcomes related to child safety and family continuity/family permanency and contribute to positive long-term outcomes.
- Outcome Goal: Family Continuity/Family Permanency
The best place for a child to grow up is in a family. Family centered IIS services are intended to achieve safety for children by strengthening family and child functioning. When decisions need to be made to remove a child from the home, IIS facilitates this decision-making process in a timely and family-fair manner that supports the best interest of the child.
- Outcome Goal: Family Satisfaction
Families should be satisfied with the services provided. Surveys are given to families to assess this outcome.