Competency 8: Intervene with individuals,

families, groups, organizations, and

communities
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8.1: Critically choose and
implement interventions to
achieve practice goals and
enhance capacities of clients
and constituencies
 Participate in MAPP classes to help couples become
licensed foster parents
 Ex: Class on discipline vs. punishment. Instead of telling
the what they cannot do, we gave them techniques of
what they can do for discipline.
 8.2: Apply knowledge of
human behavior and the
social environment, person-
in-environment, and other
multidisciplinary theoretical
frameworks in
interventions with clients
and constituencies
 Create case plans relevant to the individual needs
 Create interventions that are attainable for the
individual
 Make sure parents have access to the interventions such
as reliable transportation
8.3: Use inter-professional
collaboration as  Collaborate with care coordination for children (CC4C)
appropriate to achieve and children’s development service agency (CDSA)
beneficial practice
outcomes
8.4: Negotiate, mediate,  Sit in on CFT meetings
and advocate with and  During the meetings everyone creates a nametag
on behalf of diverse where they state who they are representing. Then
clients and everyone states what their purpose is for the meeting
constituencies
 8.5: Facilitate effective
 Advocate for shared parenting to make the children’s
transitions and endings
transition smoother
that advance mutually
agreed-on goals