Schedule a child and family team meeting

After a Child and Family Team is established, the child and family team (CFTM CFTM stands for Child and Family Team Meeting. This team is built by DCS to make plans, decisions and recommendations toward achievement of permanency for the children involved.) can convene.  These meetings can be scheduled but it is not necessary.    

Follow these steps to schedule a child and family team meeting.  

1. On the Home Workload screen, expand an Ongoing Case and click the Person icon. The Person Home Page appears with a Quick Actions Quick Actions refers to the ability to quickly document an activity from the Person Home Page. Quick Actions can be selected from a drop-down list on the Person Home Page. In Phase 1, activities that can be 'quickly' documented without requiring navigation into case modules are: CFTM (Schedule, Reschedule, Cancel, Hold), Add/Delete Collateral Contacts, Add/Delete Consultations, Add/Delete External Assessments, and Add/Delete IPA. drop-down.

2. Select 'Schedule CFTM CFTM stands for Child and Family Team Meeting. This team is built by DCS to make plans, decisions and recommendations toward achievement of permanency for the children involved.' from the Quick Actions Quick Actions refers to the ability to quickly document an activity from the Person Home Page. Quick Actions can be selected from a drop-down list on the Person Home Page. In Phase 1, activities that can be 'quickly' documented without requiring navigation into case modules are: CFTM (Schedule, Reschedule, Cancel, Hold), Add/Delete Collateral Contacts, Add/Delete Consultations, Add/Delete External Assessments, and Add/Delete IPA. drop-down.  The CFTM CFTM stands for Child and Family Team Meeting. This team is built by DCS to make plans, decisions and recommendations toward achievement of permanency for the children involved. Schedule screen appears.

3. Enter the scheduled meeting date and time.

4. Select the CFTM CFTM stands for Child and Family Team Meeting. This team is built by DCS to make plans, decisions and recommendations toward achievement of permanency for the children involved. Type(s)

5. Select the Location Type and enter the Location.  

6. If this is a call-in meeting, enter the meeting phone number and code.

7. The participants are listed in the Participants grid.  Click the Add button to add more participants.  Be sure to enter the participant Role This term will be found in the Participant’s grid of the all activity sources with the exception of External Assessment. This term refers only the selected person and their role in the activity source and not their person relationships. Those types of associations would be recorded in the Person Associations hyperlink only..

8. The Status defaults to 'Draft'.  Select 'Scheduled' when all the schedule information has been entered.

9.  Click Save.  If no errors,  The Person Home Page appears with the scheduled CFTM CFTM stands for Child and Family Team Meeting. This team is built by DCS to make plans, decisions and recommendations toward achievement of permanency for the children involved. listed in the Electronic Case File The Electronic Case File provides quick access to information for the Person in focus, including Events, which are any type of activity in TFACTS. grid.

See also:

Create a child and family team for a case or investigation

Record child and family team meeting participants and outcomes