202 The Casey Life Skills Assessment Learning Objectives

202: The Casey Life Skills Assessment

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. The Pennsylvania Child Welfare Resource Center 202: The Casey Life Skills Assessment 2

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

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

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

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

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 The Pennsylvania Child Welfare Resource Center 202: The Casey Life Skills Assessment 7

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 The Pennsylvania Child Welfare Resource Center 202: The Casey Life Skills Assessment 8

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 The Pennsylvania Child Welfare Resource Center 202: The Casey Life Skills Assessment 9

CLSA Assessment Supplements • American Indian • Healthy Pregnancy • Parenting Infants • Parenting Children • Assessing Youth Ages 8 -9, 10 -13 • Homeless • LGBTQ The Pennsylvania Child Welfare Resource Center 202: The Casey Life Skills Assessment 10

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

Casey Life Skills Tools Assessment Application Results Monitoring The Conversation Instruction Learning Plan The Pennsylvania Child Welfare Resource Center 202: The Casey Life Skills Assessment 12

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

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

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 The Pennsylvania Child Welfare Resource Center 202: The Casey Life Skills Assessment 15

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 The Pennsylvania Child Welfare Resource Center 202: The Casey Life Skills Assessment 16

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

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. The Pennsylvania Child Welfare Resource Center 202: The Casey Life Skills Assessment 18

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

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

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

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

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

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