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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. Do you have additional objectives for today?.
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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.
Current Practice • How are you and your colleagues assessing youth’s needs? • What do you do with the results?
Foundations of Casey’s work • Youth centered; • Expert-focused; • Strength-based; • Developmentally appropriate; • Diverse and anti-racist; and • Useful for setting case goals.
Youth-Driven and Strength-Based • Developed with youth • “Nothing about us without us!” • Asks what youth are capable of • “Knows or is able to…”
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
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
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
CLSA Assessment Supplements • American Indian • Healthy Pregnancy • Parenting Infants • Parenting Children • Assessing Youth Ages 8-9, 10-13 • Homeless • LGBTQ
CLSA Education Supplements • Upper Elementary School • Middle School or Junior High School • High School • Postsecondary Education or Training • Education Supports
Casey Life Skills Tools Monitoring
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
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
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 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.
Understanding Individual Learning Style • Auditory • Kinesthetic • Visual
Learning Levels • Awareness • Knowledge and understanding • Knows how to… • Can or is able to….
