Child in need of Protection or Services (CHIPS) › Reasonable efforts to reunite › Timelines › Permanency petition Egregious harm › Can move right to permanency
No later than six months after placement Court reviews › Parents progress on case plan › County’s reasonable/active efforts › Plans for permanency
If › Parent has maintained contact with child; › Parent Is complying with the placement plan; and › Child would benefit from reunification The court may › Return child home › Continue for six months
If parent is not maintaining contact and following case plan Court may order county to proceed with permanency › File permanency petition within 30 days › Hold trial within 60 days
Admit-deny hearing on permanency petition not later than 12 months after placement At admit-deny court must determine whether there is prima facie basis to find reasonable/active efforts
“All relevant factors to be considered and evaluated” “including a review of the relationship between the child and relatives and the child and other important persons with whom the child has resided or had significant contact”
Return Home
Termination of Parental Rights and adoption Guardianship to the Commissioner through consent to adopt
Transfer of Legal Custody to a Relative Permanent Custody to the Agency Temporary Custody to the Agency
BEFORE Northstar
● Grandma ●Her 17 year old daughter (not the mother of the children) THEN ADD ●Her two grandchildren Bart age 12 DOC level D, 130 Lisa age 3 DOC level B, 70
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Grandma on MFIP$ 379 Grandma not on MFIP$ 685 Adoption Subsidy$ 1229 Foster Care$ 2679
Goals › “Reducing the number of children who leave foster care without a permanent family › Reducing the benefit discrepancies between permanency options › Reducing the length of stay for children in out-of-home care › Increasing the percentage of children adopted within 24 months of entry into foster care” Northstar Care for Children, Practice Guide, Pg. 5
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