Permanency Planning Policy
The Department's primary internal planning vehicle for reviewing the clinical and legal issues related to permanency decision-making
What is The Permanency Planning Conference (PPC)?
What is the Case Record Review, the Initial Face to Face, and the Initial Network Meeting
_________ is a legal action which ends the parents' rights to receive notice of and to consent to legal proceedings affecting custody, guardianship, adoption or other decisions regarding the child named in the petition
What is Termination of Parental Rights (TPR)?
When the Department should begin to engage Kin
What is "As Soon As Possible"?
_______ is focused on meeting the child's need to become a full and permanent legal member of a family
What is Adoption?
Five people who should be invited to a Network Meeting
What is the DCF Worker, the DCF Supervisor, the GAL/Ed Surrogate/Attorney, the Foster Parent(s), the Identified Potential Resource
_____________, ______________, and _____________, are the three legal options for reinstating parental rights after they have been terminated
What is Guardianship, Permanent Custody, and Adoption?
The intentional process of identifying, involving, and supporting people who have meaningful relationships with a child and family
What is Kin Engagement?
_________ are the first consideration for adoptive placement, when appropriate
What is Kin?
__________ happens in a family
What is Healing?
When a TPR is instated - custody rights, the ability to make decisions for the child, the right to object to adoption, and future legal contact with the child is determined by ____________
What is The Court?
Maintaining ____ _______ supports identity, belonging and stability
What is Kin Connections?
This permanency goal requires an action plan on an up-to-date understanding of the family situation that identifies the reasons why the child has come into Department care or custody and addresses the tasks and services necessary to eliminate those circumstances and enable the child to return home safely
What is Permanency through Reunification?
When a child's team is in agreement to focus all efforts on a single household and the recruiter is no longer actively recruiting
What is Monitoring?
The understanding that TPR means cutting all ties between the child and their biological families and that there should be no contact with parents is a common _________
What is Misconception?
Four (4) common barriers to Kin Engagement
What is Fear of the Child Welfare Agency, Financial Limitations, Housing Instability, and Geographic Distance?
This permanency goal affords most children involved with the Department a viable opportunity to have their needs for safety, well-being and permanency met in a manner that minimizes the most traumatic aspects of involvement with the child welfare system
What is Permanency through Stabilization?
Individual(s) not in a child's immediate network, but is known by the family, or team, or is otherwise another resource
What is Previous Adoptive Parents?
Three (3) best ways to engage Kin
What is being transparent, listening without judgement, asking them how they want to be involved?