Sunday, March 25, 2018

Progress Notes


After each child and family team meeting (CFT), progress notes are either created (after an initial meeting with the team) or updated from the last submission. The progress notes keep track of anything that has changed in the child's life since the last meeting and could be either positive or negative. Examples include, but are not limited to, an increase in social interactions, decrease in school attendance, or a even just a change in medication. This progress is then used to plan what is next for the child. If they have shown a decrease in school attendance, they might propose a goal to increase attendance by one more day than usual to be done before the next meeting. For things such a change in medication, they could just have plans to monitor it until the next meeting (about 90 days). Care managers must check in with the youth and parents every so often within the week, so a parent/guardian could voice their opinion on how it is going.