Timeframes
The timeframes in which Family Support Team Meetings must be held until court adjudication.
What is within 72 hours and every 30 days?
This person is responsible for scheduling, arranging, and facilitating the Family Support Team Meeting.
Who is the child and family's Case Manager?
An meeting held to review initial placement activities, including non-custodial parent/relative search, and to determine immediate service or treatment needs of the child and family.
What is a 72 hour Family Support Team Meeting (FST)?
These acts as guidelines for team members' behavior during Family Support Team meetings.
What are "GROUND/GROUP RULES?"
The various time frames by which Team Decision Making meetings will be held.
What is prior to a child's removal from the home, any placement change in foster care, and prior to a child "aging out" of foster care?
This person is responsible for facilitating Team Decision Making Meetings.
Who is the CD TDM Facilitator?
A meeting facilitated by CD staff and held prior to a child's removal from the home or before any placement change.
What is a Team Decision Making (TDM) meeting?
A term that refers to limitations on the use or disclosure of private (usually sensitive) information about a person.
What is "CONFIDENTIALITY?"
The time frames in which Permanency Planning Review Team meetings (PPRTs) will be held.
What is within 180 days of a child entering foster care and every 180 days thereafter, until termination of court jurisdiction.
This person is required by law to participate in Permanency Planning Review Team Meetings (PPRTs) where they perform the role of an objective third-party.
Who is a Third-Party Objective Reviewer (also Oversight Specialist)?
An acronym related to a federal law that regulates the use or disclosure of protected health information (PHI)?
What is "HIPAA?"
15 out of 22 months
What is the timeframe for a mandatory TPR filing? (ASFA)
Provides final approval for recommendations (placement, visitation, etc.) made by the FST.
Who is the "Judge?"
Every 30 days until court adjudication, beginning with a child's entry into foster care.
What is the timeframe for holding the 30 day Family Support Team Meetings?
2 weeks prior to each Family Support Team Meeting/PPRT
What is the timeframe for providing notice of meetings to FST/PPRTs praticipants?
Parents, child (if 12 or older), Guardian Ad Litem, Court Appointed Advocate, Juvenile Officer
Who are the persons required to be invited to a Family Support Team Meeting?
A meeting held for youth 90 days prior to emancipation or "aging out."
What is a Team Decision Making (TDM) meeting?
A federal law that allows states to develop a concurrent plan for a child while simultaneously working toward reunification?
What is the Adoption & Safe Families Act (ASFA)?