Assessment Tools

Sites for child welfare professionals to assess life skills development, foster parent readiness, agency practices and Chafee eligibility.

 

Agency Self-Assessment

The Agency Self-Assessment (ASA) is a free, strengths-based and comprehensive reporting tool for public and private child welfare agencies, community-based organizations, program administrators, juvenile justice systems, and others concerned with positive youth development. Based on the Child Welfare League of America's Standards of Excellence for Transition, Independent Living, and Self-Sufficiency Services.

Casey Foster Family Assessments

These free, online tools allow foster parent applicants to self report on their strengths and training needs in areas of foster child development, caring for challenging children, worker and agency challenges, co-parenting, integrating foster children, and kinship care. Workers also assess the applicants to generate easy–to-use comparison reports.

Casey Life Skills

This free, online suite of easy-to-use tools allows youth to assess their strengths in life skills such as money management, work and study habits, self-care, and readiness for seeking a job and housing.

Chafee Assessment

The Chafee Assessment captures outcomes for child welfare and Chafee services. This free assessment was created for adolescents in care, young adults who have emancipated from care or are in aftercare.