Glossary

A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z

Back


Have a question about these topics? Ask FAS!

A

Active/Inactive Status

An attribute of Organizations, Users, Clients, Service Areas, Programs, Third Party Payers, JIFF® Dropdown Values and FAS Dropdown Values. (NOTE: Active/Inactive Status is not an attribute of Assessments, which have their own range of statuses.) Inactivation of an item will prevent further activity to be conducted on the FAS application with respect to that item, until such time as the item is re-activated.

The ability to inactivate an item is determined by User Role: for instance, Clients can only be inactivated by Business Administrators and Assessors that have full access to that Client's assigned Service Area and Program, whereas an Organization's Users can only be inactivated by that Organization's IT Admin or IT Super Administrator, and the IT Super Administrator and Organization itself can only be inactivated by an FAS Administrator. A User whose User Role affords him or her access and authorization to inactivate an item will also have access and authorization to re-activate the item.

Inactivating is not the same thing as deleting, the latter of which renders an item permanently invisible and inaccessible to Users, and which is therefore even more restricted, where it is possible at all. [Back]

Administration Type (Administration)

See Assessment Administration. [Back]

Administrator (Admin)

A class of User Role including IT Super Administrators, IT Administrators, Business Administrators on the Customer side and FAS Administrators on the FAS side. [Back]

Agency Delivering Treatment

See EBT Agency. [Back]

Aggregate Report

A report that tracks trends in Assessment data by showing data for a group of Clients over a long period of time (e.g. one year). Aggregate reports are static (i.e. hard-texted) print views that are distributed to external groups. They include the CAFAS® Aggregate Report for Initial Assessment, the CAFAS® Aggregate Report Comparing Initial and Most Recent Assessments, the PECFAS® Aggregate Report for Initial Assessment, the PECFAS® Aggregate Report Comparing Initial and Most Recent Assessments, the JIFF® Youth Aggregate Report for Initial Assessment and the JIFF® Caregiver Aggregate Report for Initial Assessment. [Back]

Alert

See User Alert. [Back]

Amended Assessment

An Assessment that was completed and then modified by an Assessor. Assessments that have not yet been completed can be edited, but after completion an Assessment can only be amended, and then only one time. Once an Assessment is amended it becomes locked, and can no longer be modified. [Back]

Amend Completed Assessment

An Assessment that was completed and then amended one time, the amendment of which was completed. Note: the FAS application recognizes the Amend Completed Assessment as two Assessments: a completed pre-Amendment Assessment that is created at the time the amendment is started, and a separate, completed amended Assessment. Both sets of details for these assessments are stored in the system. Only the most recent updates are shown on screens, in graphs, etc. [Back]

Amend Unfinished Assessment

An Assessment that was completed, an amendment of which has been started but not completed. Note: the FAS application recognizes the Amend Unfinished Assessment as two Assessments: a completed pre-Amendment Assessment that is created at the time the amendment is started, and a separate, unfinished amended Assessment. Both sets of details for these assessments are stored in the system. Only the most recent updates are shown on screens, in graphs, etc. [Back]

Amendment History

A shadowbox accessible from the Find Assessments page, which provides information surrounding an amended Assessment. To access the shadowbox, navigate to Find Assessments, and then click on the yellow "More Options" box next to the Assessment Date of the Amended Assessment. [Back]

Area of Functioning

See Subscale. [Back]

Assessment

An actual instance of a Measure used to evaluate a Client. [Back]

Assessment Administration (Administration Type, Administration)

The period at which an Assessment is given to a Client with respect to its Episode of Care and other Assessments within that Episode. Administration Types include "Initial", "Revised Initial", "Other", "Special Circumstances", "Exit", "3 months (T2)", "3 months - Q1", "6 months (T3)", "9 months (T4)", etc. [Back]

Assessment Header

A bar that appears at the top of FASOutcomes pages wherein a specific Client and Assessment have been selected, displaying information about that Client and that Assessment, including at a minimum the Client's name, Primary ID, date of birth, Assessment date and Administration. Assessment Options links appear in a bar directly beneath the Assessment Header.[Back]

Assessment Options

The links to pages in FASOutcomes where tasks are performed with respect to a specific Assessment (of a specific Client) that has already been created. Assessment Options appear when you click the More Options icon next to a specific Assessment in the listing on the Find Assessments page for the selected Client, and also appear in the Assessment Header. [Back]

Assessment Plan (Plan)

The part of an Assessment in which, depending on the Measure, the Assessor, the Caregiver and/or the family therapist may identify Strengths and/or Goals, prioritize Goals, and/or assign Services based on the Strengths and Goals identified. The Plan for the JIFF® is called the Service Plan, the Plan for the CAFAS® and PECFAS® are called Treatment Plans, and the Plan for the CWL® is called the Coaching Plan from CWL®. [Back]

Assessment Report

A report documenting details of a specific Assessment. Assessment reports include the JIFF® Summary Report, the CAFAS® Assessment Report, the PECFAS® Assessment Report and the Practitioner's Report from Caregiver Wish List®. [Back]

Assessment Settings

Measure-specific system settings that FAS Customers are able to configure. Settings include values for JIFF® Services, JIFF® Priority Levels and JIFF® Custom Goals, CAFAS/PECFAS Planning Templates, and certain time periods referred to in the JIFF® Interview. [Back]

Assessment Status

A value associated with an Assessment that changes as the Assessment progresses from one stage to another. Assessment statuses include Unfinished Plan, Unsigned, Plan Not Started, Interrupted (Restartable), Interrupted (Not Restartable), Invalid, Completed, Signed, Amend Unfinished, Amend Completed, and Deleted. [Back]

Assessment Type

Same as Measure. There are currently four different Measures, or Assessment Types: JIFF®, CAFAS®, PECFAS® and CWL®. [Back]

Assessment Usage License

The FAS License that grants the Site-Licensed Customer access to create Assessments for a given Measure. If an Assessment License expires, the User will not be able to create new Assessments in the system for that Measure, although he or she will be able to view and modify existing Assessments.

Assessor

A User who can choose a Client, conduct an Assessment, identify and review the Strengths and/or Goals of the Client and design Service Plans to support these goals. The Assessor can save, amend or delete an Assessment. The Assessor role is assigned by Assessment Type. [Back]

Back to the Top


B

Benchmarking

The ability to show Customers how their data relates to other Customers with similar characteristics like same state, same type of kids, etc. [Back]

Business Administrator (Business Admin)

User Role that performs administrative actions related to Clients, Assessments, reports, Supervisor Dashboards and exports. [Back]

Back to the Top


C

CAFAS®

The Child and Adolescent Functional Assessment Scale® is an Assessment Measure used to evaluate how a child handles everyday tasks. It consists of an Interview - of a child, the child's Caregiver and possibly the child's teacher - by a therapist - also called an Assessor and/or the Rater - a set of scores derived from the results of that Interview, and a Treatment Plan developed by the therapist, the child and the Caregiver, outlining Strengths and Goals in each of eight Subscales, based on the scores derived from the Interview. [Back]

CAFAS® Assessment Summary Report

One of three Client Reports associated with the CAFAS®. A summary of CAFAS® Items and Scores by Subscale and the Strengths and Goals identified for the Client. [Back]

CAFAS® Family Report

One of three Client Reports associated with the CAFAS®. A one-page summary showing a graph of CAFAS® scores by Subscale and the Strengths and Goals identified for the Client. The CAFAS® Family Report is intended for parents/Caregivers. [Back]

CAFAS Tiers®

A classification system based on the Youth's profile of Subscale scores. The CAFAS Tier® grouping can be helpful in matching a Youth's needs to the most appropriate and/or effective treatment protocol. It is a hierarchical system, such that the youth is assigned to the first tier to which he or she meets the criteria. The Tiers (in order of severity), are:

[Back]

CAFAS® Treatment Plan

One of three Client Reports associated with the CAFAS®. A listing, by Subscale, of the Items and Scores, as well as the Strengths and Goals, and Plan details identified for the Client. [Back]

Caregiver

A person who is responsible for the Client/Youth: typically a parent or legal guardian. [Back]

Caregiver Dashboard

One of two Client Dashboard views for the JIFF® (The other is the Youth Dashboard) and the one Client Dashboard view for the CWL®. The Caregiver Dashboard gives a snapshot of results from a Caregiver assessment. [Back]

Caregiver Explanation

In a JIFF®, a field where a Caregiver can enter text to explain their answers related to their child's (i.e. the Client's) need for help. [Back]

Caregiver ID

An optional ID number field associated with a Client's Caregiver, by whose entered value the associated Client may be found on the Client Search by Caregiver screen. Note: Search by Caregiver returns a list of Clients, not Caregivers. [Back]

Caregiver JIFF®

A JIFF® Assessment in which the Youth's Caregiver answers the interview questions about their Child (i.e. the Client). [Back]

Caregiver's Coaching Plan from CWL®

See Coaching Plan from Caregiver Wish List®. [Back]

Caregiver Wish List® (CWL®)

An assessment that helps parents identify the special skills they may need in order to help change their child's difficult behavior. The CWL helps Caregivers identify parenting strategies that they have mastered as well as those they may want to improve with practice. A CWL Coach helps a Caregiver answer a short set of questions. The Coach then works with the Caregiver to identify areas where they would like to improve their parenting skills. [Back]

Case

A Case can be defined as a logic grouping of a Client details and his/her Assessments. When a Client takes Assessments and is tied to Assessments, they are known as Cases in the system. [Back]

Case Notes

Notes associated with a Case that are entered by Users and saved with the User's Login ID and stamped with date and time. Case notes can be used for any purpose, such as when a User unselects a Nominated Goal. Notes are not available in reports nor visible to Clients. They are visible to Users by date. Case notes cannot be updated or deleted. [Back]

Case Status

A value associated with a Case based on associated Assessment activity. Case statuses include "Active", and "Inactive". Cases can be Inactivated and Re-Activated (i.e. made Active) from the Edit Client page. [Back]

Clerical Case Tracker

A User Role for Customer staff who work in a data entry or front-desk position, having access to Client record search but not to Client details. [Back]

Client

A Youth who takes Assessments and receives Services from the Organization/Customer. [Back]

Client Dashboard

A Dashboard that shows details for a specific Client (such as current level of functioning and comparison to a previous level of functioning) and graphs with details/scores of the current Assessment. [Back]

Client Header

A bar that appears at the top of FASOutcomes pages wherein a specific Client (but not a specific Assessment) has been selected, displaying information about that Client, including at a minimum the Client's name, Primary ID and date of birth. Client Options links appear in a bar directly beneath the Client Header. [Back]

Client ID (Client ID #2 and Client ID #3)

An ID number given to a Client by an Organization for identification. Client ID #2 and Client ID #3 are auxiliary IDs that can be created by an Organization to identify Clients beyond the Software Assigned ID and Primary Client ID. NOTE: the Client ID should not be confused with the unrelated Client Label, or with its own label, called the Client ID Label. [Back]

Client ID Label (Label for Client ID)

A System Setting that can be configured by an Organization's IT Super Administrator, which is the name to appear as a label on the Add Client and Edit Client forms. The Client ID Label identifies the second and third Client ID fields. NOTE: the Client ID Label should not be confused with the Client ID itself, or with the unrelated Client Label. [Back]

Client Label (Custom Label)

An open select field available for Customers to define and then provide with option values, enabling them to capture additional information at the Client level. The Client Label can be used to track any information that was not included in the FAS Outcomes System "Out of the box". NOTE: the Client Label should not to be confused with the unrelated Client ID and Client ID Label. [Back]

Client Options

The links to pages in FASOutcomes where tasks are performed with respect to a specific Client that has already been selected. Client Options appear when you click the More Options icon next to a Client in any Client listing (on My Clients, My Dashboard, the search results of a Client Search, etc.) and also appear in the Client Header. [Back]

Client Report

A report generated after completion of an Assessment that provides a snapshot and graphical view of the Client's responses, results and plans for treatment and/or services. [Back]

Client Transfer History (Transfer History)

A listing associated with a particular Client, that shows time periods immediately preceding every transfer of that Client from one Service Area and/or Program to another. A Client's Transfer History is only accessible to the associated Organization's Business Administrators, and only to the extent of each Business Administrator's assigned Service Areas and Programs. [Back]

Coach

A professional who helps Caregivers take the CWL® and then works with Caregivers to improve their skills. [Back]

Coaching Plan From Caregiver Wish List®

See CWL Coaching Plan. [Back]

Completed Assessment

For JIFF® And CWL®, an Assessment for which the Assessor or Rater has pressed the Complete button. Assessments that are completed may no longer be edited, but may be amended one time. [Back]

Custom Client ID (Custom ID)

See Client ID (Client ID #2 and Client ID #3). [Back]

Custom Goal (Customized Goal)

See JIFF® Custom Goal. [Back]

Custom ID

See Custom Client ID. [Back]

Custom Label

See Client Label. [Back]

Customer

An entity that uses the FAS Outcomes System. Also called the Organization. [Back]

Customer ID (Customer Software-Assigned ID, Customer Number)

A unique number generated automatically by the FAS application for a Customer/Organization at the time of setup. This ID can be seen by the IT Super Admin on the Edit Organization Details page. [Back]

Customer Number

See Customer ID. [Back]

Customer User

A User affiliated with an Organization, as distinguished from an FAS User. [Back]

CWL®

See Caregiver Wish List®. [Back]

CWL Coaching Plan®

The Assessment Plan for the Caregiver Wish List®. Also: of the two Client Reports associated with the Caregiver Wish List®, the one that details the Plan. (The other is the CWL® Practitioner's Report.) [Back]

CWL® Offline Assessment

A hard copy of the Caregiver Wish List that can be completed offline by a Caregiver and then entered online later by the Assessor. Note: when an Offline Assessment is generated, it is associated with a specific Client, Episode, date and Assessment Administration; they are not intended to be mass-copied for general use, and the system will not allow entry of Offline Assessment information into the system where the Client has not first requested an Offline Assessment for the particular occasion. [Back]

CWL® Practitioner's Report

One of three Client Reports associated with the Caregiver Wish List®. A summary of CWL® scores by Subscale and the Strengths and Goals identified for the Client. [Back]

Back to the Top


D

Dashboard

A page on the FAS application that shows the User a snapshot view of an Organization's Clients and their position, in order to help Users spot problems and address them immediately, in order to improve individual Clients' well-being. The Dashboard is a summary of key indicators that is interactive in its drilldown capacity and provides additional explanatory text. The User Dashboard, Supervisor Dashboard and Client Dashboard are available on the FAS application. [Back]

Deleted Assessment

An Assessment that has been rendered permanently invisible to non-Administrators and unmodifiable to all Users. Only a Business Administrator can delete an Assessment. Deletion must be upon the request of an Assessor and within a Service Area and Program to which both the Business Admin and the requesting Assessor have access. A deleted Assessment cannot be un-deleted: if an Assessment is deleted accidentally, the User will have to create a new Assessment. Deleted Assessments do not appear in the Data Export. Deleted Assessments are included in Web Service calls. Deleting an Assessment does not affect Episodes: when an Assessment is deleted (even an "Initial" Assessment responsible for starting an Episode) all other Assessments stay in the same Episode as before. [Back]

Drilldown

The ability to view data at a greater level of detail; for example, the Supervisor Dashboard enables Business Administrators to view generalized data on a given Measure and then to select specific Subscales or Selected Goals in order to view individual Clients and Assessments which match those categories. [Back]

Dropdown Values

Back to the Top


E

EBT

See Evidence Based Treatment/Practice. [Back]

EBT Agency (Agency Delivering Treatment)

An attribute of an Evidence Based Treatment as assigned to a Client: namely, the agency indicated as delivering the EBT. [Back]

EBT Primary Service Type

An attribute of an Evidence Based Treatment as assigned to a Client: namely, the service context within which the EBT is to be delivered, e.g. various degrees of in-home care, foster care, hospitalization, etc. [Back]

EBT Treatment (Treatment)

An attribute of an Evidence Based Treatment as assigned to a Client: namely, the type of treatment so assigned, e.g. Big Brothers Big Sisters of America, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, FAST Track, etc. [Back]

Employee ID

An optional User-associated ID, entered by an IT Administrator or the IT Super Administrator when creating or editing the User, that the User can see on his or her profile but not change. [Back]

Episode (of Care)

The time period beginning with an "Initial" Assessment (representing the initiation of Services) and ending with an associated "Exit Services" Assessment or a new "Initial" Assessment, which starts a new Episode.[Back]

Evidence Based Treatment/Practice (EBT)

A treatments that can be assigned to a Client and provided by an agency, typically as part of an Assessment Plan. [Back]

Exit Assessment (Exit Services Assessment)

The Administration of an Assessment that is intended to be the last of a Youth's or Caregiver's Assessments within a given Episode of Care. [Back]

Back to the Top


F

FAS (Functional Assessment Systems)

The name of the company that created and licenses the CAFAS, PECFAS, JIFF, and CWL measures and is the creator and proprietor of the FAS Outcomes application. See Functional Assessment Systems. [Back]

FAS Administrator

The FAS-side User Role with elevated privileges to perform advanced tasks, including FAS System Settings and other FAS Users. The FAS Admin role is distinguished from the FAS Staff role. [Back]

FAS Dropdown Values

At various places in the FAS application, select fields appear for Benchmark Category, EBT Treatment, Company Profile Category, Contact Type, EBT Agency, EBT Primary Service Type, Information Sources, Relationship to Youth, Client Language if not English, Security Question and Youth Living Arrangement. FAS dropdown values are the values that populate these select fields, which may be entered and edited on the FAS side under System Settings by an FAS Administrator. See also: Dropdown Values. [Back]

FASOutcomes (FAS Application, FAS System)

The online Assessment application, created and maintained by FAS, that is the subject of this Help tool. [Back]

FAS Staff

The FAS-side User Role that performs basic FAS tasks such as setting up new Organizations, but that does not have decision-making authority over key business decisions, or the ability to set FAS System Settings or other FAS Users. [Back]

FAS User

A User affiliated with FAS, as distinguished from an Customer User. [Back]

Full Access

The level of Measure-specific Assessor access that permits an Assessor not just to read Assessments of the specified type (within his or her Service Area(s) and Program(s)) but also to start, edit, complete or amend them. It is distinguished from Read-Only Access, which only allows an Assessor to read assessments. [Back]

Back to the Top


G

Goals

An Assessor assigns Goals for the Youth and/or Caregiver as part of an Assessment Plan, based on the results of the Interview portion of the Assessment. Goals are selected by the Assessor from amongst those nominated by the FAS application and those Organization-specific Customized Goals entered into the system beforehand by the IT Super Administrator. The Assessor may also manually enter Assessment-specific Individualized Goals. [Back]

Back to the Top


H

Back to the Top


I

Inactive Status

See Active/Inactive Status. [Back]

Inactivity Timeout

An Assessment Setting controlled by the IT Super Administrator: the number of minutes of browser window inactivity allowed to a Respondent taking the JIFF before the FAS application times out. [Back]

Individualized Goal

A Goal entered manually by an Assessor at the time of designing a JIFF® Service Plan or CAFAS Treatment Plan, that is specific to that Assessment and to the Client being assessed. [Back]

Initial Assessment

Generally the first Assessment of a given Youth or Caregiver within a given Episode. An Initial assessment may be conducted in several situations, such as:

[Back]

Integrated Plan

A JIFF® Service Plan, created as part of a Youth JIFF®, into which has been merged a Caregiver JIFF®. An Integrated plan can be created by opening an Unfinished Plan for a Youth where the Youth and Caregiver have both recently taken the assessment. If the Youth and the Caregiver took the JIFF within two weeks of one another, the system will prompt whether the user would like to integrate the plans. Upon integrating, a comparison graph of Youth % Endorsed and Caregiver % Endorsed will be available, and all of the selected goals on the Caregiver Plan will be included on the Youth Plan. [Back]

Interrupted Assessment

A JIFF® or CWL®, the Interview portion of which the Respondent did not complete. There are two types of Interrupted Assessments - Interrupted (Restartable) and Interrupted (Not Restartable). Interrupted (Restartable) assessments can be revisited and have all the unanswered questions completed by the respondent (starting where they left off). Interrupted (Not Restartable) assessments cannot be revisited by the respondent and cannot be completed. An Interrupted (Restartable) assessment becomes an Interrupted (Not Restartable) assessment after 24hrs for the JIFF and 14 days for the CWL. This is done to protect the integrity of the answers. [Back]

Interview

The portion of an Assessment when the Youth or Caregiver answers questions, as posed either by the FAS application itself, as in the case of a JIFF® or CWL®. The system does not conduct an Interview in the case of a CAFAS® or PECFAS®. [Back]

Invalid Assessment

The automatic result of a Respondent skipping ten or more questions of a JIFF®. An invalid Assessment is also automatically locked. [Back]

IT Administrator (IT Admin)

The Customer-side User Role responsible for maintaining User accounts, System Settings and exports at the Service Area level. IT Administrator access and responsibility is limited by assigned Service Area, and there is no minimum or maximum number of IT Administrators per Service Area or per Organization. IT Admins share responsibility with the IT Super Admin for maintaining Assessment Settings. [Back]

IT Contact

The contact person within an Organization with which FAS corresponds about IT and technical issues. [Back]

IT Super Administrator (IT Super Admin)

The Customer-side User Role the general responsibilities of which are to maintain Customer User accounts and System Settings that effect the entire Organization. There can be only one IT Super Admin per Customer. The IT Super Admin can access User information and System Settings across all of an Organization's Service Areas and Programs, and is responsible for setting up an Organization's IT Administrators and Business Administrators. The IT Super Admin shares responsibility with IT Administrators for maintaining Assessment Settings. [Back]

Back to the Top


J

JIFF®

The Juvenile Inventory For Functioning ® is an Assessment Measure that consists of a computerized interview that is self-administered by a youth or youth's Caregiver, the results of that interview, and a Service Plan designed by a professional and the youth's family on the basis of the interview results. [Back]

JIFF® Custom Goal (Customized Goal, Custom Goal)

A Goal that is entered into the FAS application under Assessment Settings by an Organization's IT Super Administrator, and which can thereafter be selected and added to a Client's JIFF® Service Plan by the Assessor on the JIFF - Design Service Plan page. [Back]

JIFF® Dropdown Values

Values that appear as options for Custom Goals on the JIFF - Design Service Plan screen, and as options in the select fields for Priority Level and Services on the JIFF Services page. JIFF® Dropdown Values may be entered and edited in the FAS application under Assessment Settings by an Organization's IT Super Administrator. See also: Dropdown Values. [Back]

JIFF Interviewer

Refers to the specific interview done during a JIFF and does not include the Service Plan or reports. The JIFF Interviewer™ is the talking computer program that interviews the youth or caregiver.

JIFF® Priority Level (Priority Level, Priority)

A variable associated with a JIFF® Goal. Dropdown Values for JIFF® Priority Level may be entered and edited in the FAS application under Assessment Settings by an Organization's IT Super Administrator. Default JIFF® Priority Level values are "Immediate", "High", "Medium" and "Low". [Back]

JIFF® Service Plan (Service Plan)

The Assessment Plan for the JIFF®. Also: of the two Client Reports associated with the JIFF®, the one that details the Plan. (The other is the JIFF® Summary Report.) [Back]

JIFF® Services

Assigned by the Assessor to each of a Client's Goals as identified in a JIFF® Service Plan. While services can be assigned to a Client as part of any Assessment plan, JIFF® Services are selected from amongst options pre-entered under System Settings by the IT Super Administrator. [Back]

JIFF® Interview Findings (Splash Screen)

A page that opens, after a Respondent completes a JIFF® Interview, which contains a graph and other key items and details about the Assessment for the Assessor to see. The JIFF® Interview Findings page opens automatically after the Respondent has finished the Interview, IF (1) the Respondent has not skipped more than ten questions, and (2) the Assessor that started the Assessment is in the JIFF® Full Access role. [Back]

JIFF® Summary Report

Of the two Client Reports associated with the JIFF®, the one detailing the Assessment results. (The other is the JIFF® Service Plan.) [Back]

Back to the Top


K

Back to the Top


L

Label for Client ID

See Client ID Label. [Back]

Left Navigation Bar

The Left Navigation Bar ("Left Navigation", "Left Nav Bar", etc.) refers to the blue column on the left side of all FAS application screens.  The Left Nav Bar allows Users quick access to all of the FAS application links from any other page. For help with using the Left Navigation Bar, go to the Welcome to FAS Help page. [Back]

License

Before using the services of the FAS application, Customers must purchase licenses from FAS. The application handles license requests and license management. There are two kinds of licenses: the Site License and the Assessment Usage License. [Back]

Locked Assessment

An Assessment that is read-only, and cannot be changed or amended. The following Assessments will automatically become locked:

[Back]

Login ID (Employee ID)

A unique nickname, abbreviation or sequence of characters entered by a User, along with his or her Password, in order to gain access to the FAS application. An FAS Administrator assigns Login IDs to FAS Users as they are created. Once assigned Login IDs cannot be changed. An FAS User assigns a Login ID to an Organization's IT Super Administrator when an Organization is created. An Organization's IT Super Administrator assigns Login IDs to Customer Users as they are created. [Back]

Back to the Top


M

Measure (Assessment Type)

A tool for evaluating behaviors of Clients. There are currently four different Measures: JIFF®, CAFAS®, PECFAS® and CWL®. [Back]

Merged Assessment (Merged w/Youth)

A Caregiver JIFF® that has been merged with a Youth JIFF® in order to create an Integrated Plan. [Back]

My Clients

A non-exclusive list of Clients on the FAS application created by, maintained by and accessible only to an individual Assessor, for his or her easy reference. The list is accessible and manageable at the My Clients link under the Clients tab of the Left Navigation Bar. [Back]

My Dashboard

See User Dashboard. [Back]

My Profile

See Profile. [Back]

Back to the Top


N

Nominated Goal

A Goal that is automatically identified by the system as a potential Goal for the Client based on the Respondent's Interview answers. [Back]

Notifications (License Expiration Notifications)

Notification of FAS Site License expiry will be sent by email to an Organization's Primary and IT contacts at 60 days, 30 days and once a day at the two-week mark. FAS Administrators can turn off notifications in the event that renewal of an Organization's License is in process. [Back]

Back to the Top


O

Open-Ended Question

An Interview question that prompts the Respondent to give his or her opinion without reference to an earlier question. For example: "What do you like best about school?" [Back]

Organization

An entity that uses Measures in the FAS Outcomes application. Also called the Customer. [Back]

Organization Settings

Organization-specific System Settings controlled on the FAS side, including Customer ID, signup date, Support Level, Benchmark Categories and Company Profile Categories; enabled/disabled status of web service, multiple languages and license expiration notifications; purchasing and billing contact information; and miscellaneous notes and special instructions. [Back]

Back to the Top


P

Password

A sequence of characters known only to the User, that the User enters along with his or her Login ID in order to gain secure access to the FAS application. The system will generate a temporary Password for a User to use when logging in to the system for the first time; immediately thereafter they will be required to change their Password to one of their own creation. [Back]

Payer

See Third Party Payer. [Back]

PECFAS®

The Preschool & Early Childhood Functional Assessment Scale® is an Assessment Measure used to evaluate how a child handles everyday tasks, like following rules and managing feelings. It consists of an interview - of a child, the child's Caregiver and possibly the child's teacher - by a therapist - also called an Assessor and/or the Rater - a set of scores derived from the results of that Interview, and a Treatment Plan developed by the therapist, the child and the Caregiver, outlining Strengths and Goals in each of eight Subscales, based on the scores derived from the Interview. [Back]

PECFAS® Assessment Report

Of the two Client Reports associated with the PECFAS®, the one detailing the Assessment results. (The other is the PECFAS® Treatment Plan.) [Back]

PECFAS® Family Report

One of three Client Reports associated with the PECFAS®. A one-page summary showing a graph of CAFAS® scores by Subscale and the Strengths and Goals identified for the Client. The PECFAS® Family Report is intended for parents/Caregivers. [Back]

PECFAS® Treatment Plan

The Assessment Plan for the PECFAS®. A listing, by Subscale, of the Items and Scores, as well as the Strengths and Goals, and Plan details identified for the Client. [Back]

Plan

See Assessment Plan. [Back]

Plan Not Started Assessment

An Assessment the Interview of which has been completed, but the Plan for which has not yet been started. [Back]

Practitioner's Report from CWL®

See CWL Practitioner's Report®. [Back]

Primary Contact

Contact information for the person in an Organization (not necessarily a User) designated to receive all business correspondence from FAS. [Back]

Primary ID (Primary Client ID)

A Client ID that an Organization is required to create and assign for each Client it enters into the FAS application. (The system additionally allows for as many as two optional Custom Client IDs per Client.) [Back]

Primary Service Type

See EBT Primary Service Type. [Back]

Priority Level (Priority)

See JIFF® Priority Level. [Back]

Profile (My Profile)

A User's personal information as maintained on the FAS application, including his or her name, email address, phone number, Employee ID, security questions, User Roles and, in the case of Customer Users, Service Areas and Programs. [Back]

Program

A means by which an Organization may subdivide its Clients within a Service Area in order to organize them and/or maintain their privacy. Every Organization must have at least one Service Area, and every Service Area in turn must have at least one Program. All Customer Users must be assigned access to at least one Service Area, and at least one Program within each assigned Service Area, in order to have Clients and start Assessments. [Back]

Program Code

A required ID field associated with a Program, entered by an IT Administrator or the IT Super Administrator when the Program is created. [Back]

Back to the Top


Q

Back to the Top


R

Rater

The Assessor who rates the Client's Strengths and Goals for a CAFAS® or PECFAS®. [Back]

Rationale

In a JIFF® or CWL®, an Interview question that asks the Respondent to provide more detail regarding a previous answer. For example: in the JIFF®, if the Yes/No question "Have you been suspended?" is answered in the affirmative, what follows is the Rationale question, "Why were you suspended?" [Back]

Read-Only Access

The level of Measure-specific Assessor access that is less than Full Access, and that permits an Assessor to read Assessments of the specified type (within his or her Service Area(s) and Program(s)) but not to start, edit, complete or amend them. [Back]

Research Export

A collection of de-identified Client data, belonging to the Customer, exported from the FAS application to the FAS research database in SPSS, CSV and/or XML format. FAS can only see de-identified Client information with the Customer's permission. Permission to conduct research exports is granted to FAS by selecting the "Allow research export" option on the Organization - Edit Information page. [Back]

Research Group

A group of organizations whose data can cumulatively be exported with the Research Export. Saves the trouble of selecting organizations individually on the Research Export page if you are regularly exporting the same organizations. [Back]

Respondent

The person who answers the interview questions of an Assessment. The Respondent may be the Youth/Client, or it may be the Youth's Caregiver. [Back]

Back to the Top


S

Selected Goal

A Goal selected by an Assessor from among those nominated by the system in response to the Client's Assessment answers. [Back]

Service Area

The first tier at which an Organization may subdivide its Clients in order to organize them and/or maintain their privacy. Every Organization must have at least one Service Area, and every Service Area in turn must have at least one Program. All Customer Users must be assigned access to at least one Service Area, and at least one Program within each assigned Service Area, in order to have Clients and start Assessments. [Back]

Service Area Code

A required ID field associated with a Service Area, entered by the IT Super Administrator when the Service Area is created. [Back]

Service Plan

See JIFF® Service Plan. [Back]

Service Plan Status

A basis by which JIFF® data is generalized on the Supervisor Dashboard: a JIFF® Service Plan may be "Completed", "Unfinished" or "Not Started". [Back]

Services

Agency services that are assigned as part of an Assessment Plan, depending on the Client's Strengths and/or Goals as identified by the Assessor. In a JIFF®, the Assessor chooses Services via select fields whose dropdown values are edited by the IT Super Administrator. (More generally, "services" may simply mean any use of the FAS application by an Organization to serve Clients.) [Back]

Signed

For CAFAS and PECFAS, an Assessment for which the Assessor or Rater has Saved the Assessment while selecting that they would like to Mark the CAFAS as Complete and Signed. Assessments that are Signed may no longer be edited, but may be amended one time. [Back]

Site License

The FAS License that allows Users online access to the FAS application. The Site License does not allow Users to use Assessments: Assessment usage is controlled by the Assessment Usage Licenses. If there is no Site License for an Organization, users will not be able to log in for that organization. [Back]

Skill Wish List For Your Child, Skill Wish List For You

The two sections of the Caregiver Wish List (CWL)®, each representing six sections of questions. The sections of the Skill Wish List for your Child are "Responds to Directions from Caregiver", "Responds to Encouraging Good Behavior", "Responds to Discouraging Undesirable Behavior", "Responds to Monitoring Activities", "Responds to Connecting Positively with Caregiver" and "Responds to Problem Solving". The Skill Wish List for You sections are "Providing Direction and Following Up", "Encouraging Good Behavior", "Discouraging Undesirable Behavior", "Monitoring Activities", "Connecting Positively with Youth" and "Problem Solving Orientation". [Back]

Software Assigned ID

See Customer ID. [Back]

Strengths

Assigned to a Client (along with Goals) by an Assessor, after the Client has completed a CAFAS® or PECFAS®. Strengths and Goals are determined based on a Rater's interview with the Client and others in the Client's life. [Back]

Subscale

One of a set number of contexts or aspects within which a Client's behavior is separately identified and evaluated in the course of a given Measure. Subscales have names like "At Home", "At School", "Moods/Emotions", "Self-Harmful Behavior", "Substance Use", etc. [Back]

Supervisor Dashboard

The Dashboard accessible by Business Administrators, which displays Assessment data generalized for all an Organization's Service Areas and Programs to which the Business Admin has access. The Supervisor Dashboard enables the Business Admin to "drill down" by Subscale, Goal or Status of Cases, Assessments or Plans, and to drill down further to see the Client Dashboards of individual Clients whose Assessment data is represented in the selected drilldown categories. [Back]

System Settings

Settings affecting the functionality, appearance and/or options of the FAS application that can be managed by Users of certain roles. System settings may be referred to in the FAS application as either "System Settings", "Assessment Settings" or "Organization Settings".

On the Customer side, "System Settings" are Organization-specific, and consist of the Client ID Labels (i.e. the name of the optional second and third Client ID fields). Only the Organization's IT Super Administrator can access and manage Customer-side System Settings.

There are also Measure-specific system settings on the Customer side that are called "Assessment Settings". Only the IT Super Admin and IT Administrators can access and manage Assessment Settings.

On the FAS side, "System Settings" are settings that apply throughout the system, and consist of values associated with certain dropdowns (Benchmark Category, Company Profile Category, certain EBT information, types of Customer contact other than Primary or IT, Clients' primary language if not English, relationship of Caregiver to Youth, security questions and Youth living arrangement) and the name, contact information and Active/Inactive Status of Third Party Payers.

There are also Organization-specific system settings controlled on the FAS side that are called "Organization Settings".

Only FAS Administrators can access and manage FAS System Settings or Organization Settings. [Back]

Back to the Top


T

TA Request

See Technical Assistance Request. [Back]

Technical Assistance Request (TA Request)

A form page on the FAS application, accessible to Administrators, that enables him or her to report to FAS any technical problems experienced while using the FAS application. [Back]

Third Party Payer (Payer)

An organization, which may or may not be an FAS Organization, that pays for another FAS Organization's licenses. A list of such Payers is maintained and accessible by FAS Administrators on the FAS System Settings page. [Back]

Transfer History

See Client Transfer History. [Back]

Treatment

See EBT Treatment. [Back]

Treatment Plan (CAFAS® Treatment Plan, PECFAS® Treatment Plan)

The plan that an Assessor may create for a Client after the completion of a CAFAS® or PECFAS® Assessment, and the name of the Client Report thereafter associated with that Assessment. [Back]

Back to the Top


U

Unfinished Plan (Unfinished Item)

An Assessment that requires further work on the part of the Assessor (but not the Respondent) in order to be complete. This status is for the JIFF And CWL when the respondent has completed the Interview, but the Service Plan/Coaching Plan has not yet been completed. [Back]

Unsigned

An Assessment that requires further work on the part of the Rater in order to be Signed. If your organization is using the "Signing" feature, this means that more work needs to be done on the assessment before it can be considered final. If your organization is not using the "Signing" feature, this status may or may not be meaningful. [Back]

User

Any person with proper access to the FAS application. Users will either be FAS Users or Customer Users, and will be assigned one or more User Roles. [Back]

User Alert

A message composed by an FAS Administrator and sent within the FAS application and/or by email to all Users, or to all Users within criteria supplied by the FAS Administrator, including specific Organization membership, access to specific Service Areas and/or Programs, and User Roles. [Back]

User Dashboard (Customer Dashboard, My Dashboard)

A Dashboard that gives information, links and reminders specific to the User viewing it. For Customer Users, the My Dashboard page displays the User Dashboard. [Back]

User Role

A set of privileges and responsibilities that a User has with respect to the FAS application. All Users of the FAS application have at least one User Role. There are two User Roles associated with FAS Users - FAS Staff and FAS Administrator - and five User Roles associated with Customer Users: IT Super Administrator, IT Administrator, Business Administrator, Clerical Case Tracker and Assessor. The Assessor role is Measure-specific, and may be either Full Access or Read-Only Access. [Back]

Back to the Top


V

Back to the Top


W

Back to the Top


X

Back to the Top


Y

Youth

Generally the Client. [Back]

Youth Dashboard

One of two Client Dashboard views for the JIFF®. (The other is the Caregiver Dashboard.) The Youth Dashboard gives a snapshot of results from a Youth JIFF®. [Back]

Youth JIFF®

A JIFF® Assessment in which the Client him- or herself - typically a Youth - answers the interview questions. [Back]

Back to the Top


Z

Back to the Top


Ask FAS a Question!