3.3 Service Efforts to Prevent Placement and/or Services to Return Child to Home
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3.3 Service Efforts to Prevent Placement and/or Services to Return Child to Home

(Implemented 7/1/99)

Authority:Authority:

AS 47.10.081(b)(2) Predisposition Hearing Reports,

AK 47.10.086 Reasonable Efforts,

P. L. 96-272 Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980,

P. L. 105-89 Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997, P. L. 95-607 Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978

 

Policy:

  1. The Protective Services Specialist (PSS) must make timely reasonable efforts to provide time-limited family support services to the child and to the parent(s), Indian Custodian, or guardian of the child that are designed to prevent out-of-home placement of the child or enable the safe return of the child to the family home, when appropriate, if the child is in an out-of-home placement. The PSS must make timely Active Efforts to provide remedial services and rehabilitative programs to prevent the breakup of the Indian family

  2. These services are developed in the case plan. When it has been determined in staffing that concurrent planning is appropriate for the case, the division will develop a concurrent alternative permanency plan for the child while also making reasonable efforts to return the child to the child’s family.

  3. Family support services means the services and activities provided to children and their families, including those provided by the community, a church, or other service organization, both to prevent removal of a child from the family home, and to facilitate the child’s safe return to the family. “Family support services may include counseling, substance abuse treatment, mental health services, assistance to address domestic violence, visitation with family members, parenting classes, in-home services, temporary child care services, and transportation.