CC Court Outcomes

Once a youth who will be transitioning to the collaborative care program reaches the age of 18, his/her CHINS involvement and removal episode should be closed through a court outcome. At this time, or soon after, the court should also approve the Collaborative Care petition. Both of these court outcomes should be entered into Casebook.

Short gaps in time between the closing of the CHINS involvement and the approval of Collaborative Care are acceptable. Placement for Collaborative Care can be entered as long as the Voluntary Placement Agreement has been signed by both the youth and the 3CM on the date of the Collaborative Care Placement.

Ending the CHINS Involvement Type

1. You will need to enter a “Wardship Dismissal” court hearing in the CHINS case to close the current removal episode.
  1. From the case page, click the Actions button and select Create Court Hearing

- 1. On the court hearing edit screen

- - 1. Select "Wardship Dismissal" as the Hearing Type.
    2. Start typing the name of the youth in the “who is this hearing about” field and select the appropriate name from the auto-completer box.
    3. Enter the date the hearing was held in the “Date” field.
    4. Enter the Cause Number in the appropriate field.
    5. Select the Judge from the auto-completer.

- 1. Click the Save & Proceed button to enter the court outcomes
  2. Select the outcome of "Court Case Closed/Child has been in foster care" in the Outcomes dropdown

- 1. Once selected, this will prompt you with the options below for “What is the reason the Removal Episode is closed?” select the “Child is entering the Collaborative Care Program” radio button
  2. Click Save.
  3. The Outcome will be listed in the Resulting Court Outcomes card where you can edit or remove it if necessary and upload any court outcomes by clicking Browse.

- 1. Click Save & Close.

Adding the Collaborative Care Hearing

This workflow describes the same steps that are explained above but includes the correct hearing type and outcomes you would use to enter a collaborative care hearing instead of ending a CHINS involvement.

1. From the Actions menu, select Create Court Hearing.
2. On the court hearing edit screen, select “Collaborative Care Hearing” from the Hearing Type dropdown.
  1. Enter the name of the youth in the who is this hearing about field and select the appropriate name from the auto-completer box.
  2. Enter the date the hearing was held in the “Date” field.
  3. Enter the Cause Number in the appropriate field.
  4. Select the Judge from the auto-completer.
  5. Finally click the “Save & Proceed” button to get to the Outcomes page.
3. Select the Outcome of “Child approved into Collaborative Care Program” and be sure it appears in the “Resulting Court Outcomes” card. Upload the court outcomes by clicking the “Browse” button and selecting the appropriate file. Click the “Save & Close” button.
4. Change the involvement type to “3CM/Collaborative Care/CHINS”

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