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The Many Paths to Permanency

The Many Paths to Permanency. ASFA . Focus on child’s health and safety Reasonable Efforts Requirements To preserve and reunify families Child specific efforts Concurrent planning Accelerated permanence for children Filing for TPR Permanency Planning Hearings.

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The Many Paths to Permanency

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  1. The Many Paths to Permanency

  2. ASFA • Focus on child’s health and safety • Reasonable Efforts Requirements • To preserve and reunify families • Child specific efforts • Concurrent planning • Accelerated permanence for children • Filing for TPR • Permanency Planning Hearings

  3. Factors Predicting Timely Permanence • Caseworker consistency • Fewer placements • Substance Abuse • Parental visitation

  4. Family Friendly vs. Family Centered

  5. Why Involve the Family? • Allows families to feel heard and respected • Involvement = Investment • Empowers the family • Ensures that everyone is working toward the same goals

  6. Benefits of Concurrent Planning • Fewer moves • Timelier permanence • Fewer problems with attachment and trust • Strategies and services that are matched to the family offer the best opportunity for changing the behavioral patterns that led to removal

  7. Effective Concurrent Planning • Individualized and intensive • Full disclosure of consequences • Early paternity establishment • Early, aggressive search for birth family resources • Early identification and consideration of all permanency options • Visitation • Early use of foster to adoptive or kinship placements • Shared parenting

  8. Permanency Plans • Reunification • Adoption • Guardianship • Legal Custody • APPLA • Reinstatement of Parental Rights

  9. Reunification

  10. Adoption

  11. Benefits of Adoption • Legal relationship • Adoption assistance benefits • Monthly cash assistance • Medicaid • Tax credit • Vendor Payments

  12. Requirements for Adoption Assistance • Applicable or non-applicable? • Three part special needs requirement • Other Eligibility Criteria • IV-E vs. IV-B • Citizenship • Medicaid

  13. Considerations in Choosing Guardianship/Custody over Adoption • Financial impact • Relationship with child • Legal impact • Requirements for ongoing contact with biological family The easy way isn’t always the right way when it comes to achieving permanence for children in care.

  14. Guardianship

  15. Legal Custody

  16. Relative or Court Appointed Caretaker

  17. Another Planned Permanent Living Arrangement (APPLA) & Reinstatement of Parental Rights

  18. We are in the business of finding families for children; NOT finding children for families

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