{"content":[{"text":"SUPPLEMENTARY CERTIFICATION STANDARDS FOR \n PERFORMANCE OF MULTIDISCIPLINARY DEFENSE TEAMS \n REPRESENTING PARENTS IN CHILD PROTECTION OR \n TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS PROCEEDINGS IN \n YOUTH COURT","bbox":{"left":0.107882,"top":0.088684,"width":0.762181,"height":0.120789}},{"text":"Purpose and Scope","bbox":{"left":0.107882,"top":0.229207,"width":0.159185,"height":0.020984999999999976}},{"text":"The Mississippi Office of State Public Defender is authorized to provide representation to indigent \n parents or guardians in abuse, neglect or termination of parental rights proceedings. Miss. Code § \n 99-18-13. OSPD is further authorized to oversee training of all attorneys regularly accepting \n appointments in such matters and to enforce the training provisions. Miss. Code § 43-21-201 (3). In \n 2018 in collaboration with the Parent Representation Taskforce organized under the Supreme Court \n of Mississippi, OSPD adopted attorney certification standards.","bbox":{"left":0.107882,"top":0.265283,"width":0.781558,"height":0.107371}},{"text":"The Taskforce and OSPD have now determined that the best-practice for delivery of these services \n is by utilization of a multidisciplinary team approach to include attorneys working with social \n workers. To ensure the due process rights of the clients served are fully protected and the \n professional standards of all team members are adhered to and respected, OSPD promulgates these \n supplementary standards.","bbox":{"left":0.107882,"top":0.388654,"width":0.775122,"height":0.08990900000000002}},{"text":"Mission","bbox":{"left":0.107882,"top":0.494093,"width":0.065353,"height":0.02098500000000003}},{"text":"The mission of the Multidisciplinary Team Defense Project is to strengthen and empower families \n by providing high-quality, strength based, compassionate, accessible, non-biased, culturally \n relevant, and comprehensive social work services to parents in dependency and termination \n proceedings, thus allowing them to participate fully and meaningfully in their case planning.","bbox":{"left":0.107882,"top":0.528806,"width":0.7704529999999999,"height":0.07251099999999999}},{"text":"Project Description","bbox":{"left":0.107882,"top":0.616241,"width":0.162627,"height":0.02098500000000003}},{"text":"Social workers shall serve as a resource for attorneys to assist parents involved in dependency and \n termination proceedings in Mississippi Youth Courts. OSPD endorses the core beliefs and values \n expressed in the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) Code of Ethics as principles to \n guide Parent Defense Social Workers and adopts the following summary of beliefs and values \n related to our work.","bbox":{"left":0.107882,"top":0.651408,"width":0.770342,"height":0.08990900000000002}},{"text":"Core Beliefs of Parent Defense Teams","bbox":{"left":0.107882,"top":0.756431,"width":0.315053,"height":0.02098500000000003}},{"text":"✓ We believe families generally enter the child welfare system with real and complicated \n temporary deficits, in conjunction with social barriers which impact their temporary abilities \n to care for their children. We also believe every parent, despite their baseline parenting \n skills when entering the child welfare system, has the capacity to make positive and \n meaningful changes in their parenting abilities that will allow them to successfully reunify \n with their children. \n ✓ We believe a families’ chance of succeeding improves exponentially when provided \n 1","bbox":{"left":0.137294,"top":0.791141,"width":0.754846,"height":0.14744200000000007}}],"images_bbox":[],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[]}