202: The Casey Life Skills Assessment

202: The Casey Life Skills AssessmentThe 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.

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Do you have additional objectives for today?

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Current Practice• How are you and your colleagues

assessing youth’s needs? • What do you do with the results?

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Foundations of Casey’s work• Youth centered;• Expert-focused;• Strength-based;• Developmentally appropriate;• Diverse and anti-racist; and• Useful for setting case goals.

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Youth-Driven and Strength-Based

• Developed with youth– “Nothing about us without us!”

• Asks what youth are capable of – “Knows or is able to…”

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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

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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

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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

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CLSA Assessment Supplements

• American Indian • Healthy Pregnancy • Parenting Infants • Parenting Children• Assessing Youth Ages 8-9, 10-13• Homeless• LGBTQ

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CLSA Education Supplements

• Upper Elementary School• Middle School or Junior High School• High School• Postsecondary Education or Training• Education Supports

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Casey Life Skills ToolsAssessment

Results

The Conversatio

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Learning Plan

Instruction

Application

Monitoring

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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

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http://www.caseylifeskills.org/


Accessing the Website

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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

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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

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Completing an Assessment and Understanding the Results

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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.

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Understanding Individual Learning Style

• Auditory

• Kinesthetic

• Visual

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Learning Levels

• Awareness

• Knowledge and understanding

• Knows how to…

• Can or is able to….

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Knows How To…

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Can or is able to…

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Developing a Learning Plan

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Questions and Answers

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