Permanent Outcomes for Children
Section 4 Overview
This section pertains to the policy and procedures necessary when an out-of-home placement of a child is imminent or has occurred.
Chapter 9 Overview
This chapter addresses permanency planning for children when family reunification or adoption are not viable options.
Table of Contents
- 9.1 Philosophical Basis for Permanency Planning
- 9.2 Administrative Review Process/Permanency Planning Review (PPR)
- 9.3 Decision Making for Permanency
- 9.4 Guidelines for Placement Decision Making for Permanency Planning
- 9.4.1 Reunification
- 9.4.2 Guardianship
- 9.4.3 Placement with Fit and Willing Relative
- 9.4.4 Another Planned Permanent Living Arrangement (APPLA)
- 9.4.4.1 Residential Care
- 9.4.5 Adoption
- 9.4.6 Emancipation or Independent Living
- 9.4.7 Release from Division Custody
- 9.5 Tasks to Support Plan
- 9.6 Operation of the Family Support Team (FST)/Permanency Planning Review Team (PPRT) Meeting
- 9.7 Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997
- 9.8 Concurrent Permanency Planning
- 9.8.1 Goals of Concurrent Permanency Planning
- 9.8.2 When Concurrent Permanency Planning is Used
- 9.8.3 Components of Effective Concurrent Permanency
- 9.8.4 Documenting Concurrent Permanency Planning
- 9.8.5 Family Involvement in Concurrent Permanency Planning
- 9.8.6 Legal Strategies
- 9.8.7 Changing the Permanency Plan and Case Activities