Concurrent Permanency Planning

Contents n Definitions n Goals n Target Populations n Categories n Activities

Definitions Concurrent Permanency Planning n Simultaneous identification of (a) services to be provided to improve the conditions which led to the child being placed, so the child can safely return home and (b) a family for the child that can assume care of the child, support reunification, and commit to being the permanent placement resource if the child can’t return home

Goals n Achieve early permanency for the child; n Decrease child’s length of stay in foster care; n Reduce the number of moves a child experiences in care; n Develop families who will work towards reunification and serve as permanent homes; and n Decrease likelihood of re-entry into care

Target Populations Included n Children who are subjects of any immediate permanency planning; n Indian children who are subjects of any immediate permanency planning;

Target Populations Included n Children under 8 and their siblings, if based on the thorough assessment of the child’s parents, it appears likely that the child will continue in care more than 90 days; n Children under 8 and their siblings who remain in care for more than 90 days

Target Populations Excluded n Children in placement solely to their own behavior (delinquents, truants, runaways) n Children in placement solely to their status as developmentally delayed or emotionally handicapped

CPP - Immediate Non-Indian Children n The child or siblings have experienced egregious harm in the parents care; or n The child is an abandoned infant; or n The rights to another child of the parent have been involuntarily terminated; or n Efforts or further efforts to reunify the parent with the child would be futile and unreasonable n Child in care 15 of last 22 months

CPP - Immediate Indian n ICWA requires active efforts; n Provisions of Minn. Law that permit the court to authorize stopping reunification efforts do NOT apply to active efforts; n CCP for any case involving an Indian Child, the agency must comply with ICWA and MIFPA

CPP - Activities n Conduct a thorough assessment of parents and child; n Full Disclosure n Recruit permanency resource n Petition n ID and Deliver reunification svc and place the child with permanency resource; and

CPP -Activities n Visitation n Documentation n Proceed to Permanency