Reports received indicating Family in Need of Assessment (FINA) concerns shall receive an initial assessment to determine whether criterion is met to assign for further assessment. When FINA criteria is met, and it is determined the case is open to PPS for assessment, family services, family preservation, or foster care a preliminary inquiry to the worker with the open case may provide information to inform the initial assessment decision.
Generally, when there is an open abuse/neglect investigation, FINA concerns are not assigned for further assessment and forwarded to the CPS Specialist with the open case in FACTS. The report may be assigned for further assessment when there is a request from the PPS supervisor to assign. Some cases remaining open on FACTS may warrant assignment of a FINA event when it is determined the Child Welfare Case Management Provider (CWCMP) is not responsible for services. Such cases may include, but are not limited to, reports received with an open foster care case on a newborn in the removal home, or on children in the removal home with the case plan of adoption. The case plan goal in FACTS may not always indicate adoption when there is concurrent planning. A preliminary inquiry to the worker with the open case may inform this initial assessment decision.
When there is not a request from the PPS supervisor to assign the subsequent FINA concern, the initial assessment may be completed with the decision to not assign for further assessment and addressed as part of the open case. See PPM 1432 for forwarding procedures.
All reports containing human trafficking concerns per K.S.A. 38-2202 shall be assigned for further assessment of abuse/neglect Human Trafficking-Sex or Human Trafficking-Labor, regardless of the current open case type, unless, criteria per PPM 1430 Report of the Same Specific Abuse/Neglect Incident by a Different Reporter on an Open Case are met.
Reports faxed from Juvenile Intake Assessment Services (JIAS) involving a child in the custody of the Secretary receiving foster care services who has run away shall be reviewed by KPRC staff. When it is determined the report contains runaway concerns only, and any abuse/neglect concerns have already been assessed, the report shall be forwarded to the region with the open case, via the intake e-mail. These reports are not required to be entered in KIPS.