Use of family’s strengths and resources. ( NRS 432B.190 )

When providing child welfare services to a child, a caseworker shall engage the child’s family in using its own strengths and resources throughout the process for planning services, by: 1. Fully exploring the needs of the child’s family and alternatives to separation of the family; 2. Identifying each family member’s strengths and using those strengths in the process of solving problems; 3. Developing individualized goals for services and treatment, time-limited steps to accomplish these goals, and target dates for their evaluation and completion; 4. Exploring and selecting remedial measures and resources which are based on differential use of methods of social work in accordance with varying family needs and dynamics; 5. Explaining the family’s strengths and needs to the community resources that are serving the family so that their approaches or responses to the family can be modified; and 6. Preparing the family for the use of resources and plans for monitoring and follow-up.