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Chapter 3
CHAPTER 3
3.11 WORKING WITH INCARCERATED PARENTS
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CHAPTER 4
4.37 WORKING WITH INCARCERATED PARENTS
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Initial Considerations Prior to Removal
4.1 Consideration of Race and Ethnicity/Maintaining Cultural Connections
4.2 Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA)
4.3 Relative and Absent Parent Search
4.5.1 Kinship Care and Relative Benefit Regional Logs
4.5.2 Eligibility Criteria for Children Approved for Kinship Care Benefits Prior to April 1, 2013
4.5.3 Kinship Care Benefits Approvals-Prior to April 1, 2013
4.5.4 Background Checks for Kinship Care Providers or Relative Caregivers
4.5.5 Relative and Fictive Kin Placement Foster Care Payments
4.5.6 Ongoing Services and Permanency for the Child Placed through Kinship Care
4.5.8 Discontinuance of Kinship Care
4.5.9 Redetermination and Reapplication for Children Approved for Kinship Care Prior to April 1, 2013
4.5.10 Service Appeals for Kinship Care Providers, Relative, or Fictive Kin Caregivers
4.6 Parenting Youth in Foster Care
Foster Care Placement Administrative Section
4.9 Initial Placement Considerations
4.10 Placement in a DCBS Foster or Adoptive Home
4.10.1 DCBS Care Plus
4.10.2 DCBS Medically Complex Placement
4.10.4 Relative or Fictive Kin Pursuing Foster Home Approval
4.11 Private Child Placing (PCP) or Child Caring (PCC) Agency
4.11.1 Level of Care Assignment
4.11.2 Request for Emergency LOC Assignment
4.11.3 Reviews of LOC Assignment
4.11.4 Change in LOC Assignment
4.12 Out of State Placement
4.13 Alternative Placements
Opening a Foster Care Case and Developing the Case Plan
4.14 Timeframes for All Out-of-Home Care (OOHC) Cases
4.15 Family Attachment and Involvement
4.16 Participants and Notification for All OOHC Cases
4.17 Preparation for and Completion of the Ten (10) Day Conference
4.18 Ongoing Case Planning
4.19 Visitation Agreement
4.20 Assessing and Maintaining Sibling Relationships
4.21 Safe Infants Act
Ongoing OOHC Service Provision
4.24 SSW's Ongoing Contact with the Child and Family, Including the Medically Complex Child
4.26 Meeting Basic Health Care Needs
4.26.1 Medical Passport
4.26.2 Authorization for Medical Services
4.26.3 Standardized Screening and Assessment for Children in Out of Home Care
4.26.4 Passport Health Plan
4.26.5 Early Periodic Screening, Diagnosis and Treatment (EPSDT)
4.27.1 Individual Health Plan for the Medically Complex Child
4.27.2 Extraordinary Medical Care/Medical Expenses of a Medically Complex Child
4.27.3 Serious Injury of a Child in Foster Care
4.27.4 Life Support Systems
4.27.5 Ending Use of Life Support Systems
4.28 Meeting Educational Needs
4.28.2 Providing Educational Services Under the Individuals with Disabilities Act (IDEA)
4.28.3 Accessing Educational Records for Children and Youth in Foster Care and Guidelines for Educational Passports
4.28.4 Higher Education Assistance
4.28.5 Educational Training Voucher for Youth Who Have Transitioned Out of Foster Care
4.29.1 Independent Living Services
4.29.2 Transition Planning for Youth Aging Out of OOHC or Extending Commitment
4.30 Normalcy for Children and Youth in Out of Home Care
Ongoing Assessment, Case Planning and Case Closure
4.34 Ongoing Assessment for Out of Home Care Cases
4.35 Reunification, Including Extended Visitation, Case Planning and Transitional Supports to Families and Children
4.36 Case Closure and Aftercare Planning
4.37 Working with Incarcerated Parents
OOHC Administrative Standards of Practice
4.45 Movement from a Home Placement
4.46 Movement from a DCBS Foster or Adoptive Home
4.47 Movement from One PCC Placement to Another
4.48 Discharge from a PCP or PCC Placement
4.49 Discharge Planning Prior to Leaving a Hospital or Treatment Facility
4.50 Discharge Planning Prior to Placement Changes Against Medical Advice
4.51 Documentation Required Upon Entering Out of Home Care (OOHC)
4.51.1 Placement in a Congregate Care (Residential Treatment) Setting
4.52 Personal Care Home/Family Care Home
4.53 Bed-Hold-Private Child Caring (PCC) / Residential or Private Child Placing (PCP) Foster Care Placement
4.54 Transportation and Out of State Travel with a Child in the Custody of the Cabinet
4.55 Sex Education
4.55.1 Pregnant Youth
4.55.2 Family Planning for Pregnant Youth
4.55.3 Survivors and Those at Risk of Human Trafficking
4.56 Use of Tobacco Products
4.57 Photography, Videotaping or Audio Taping of a Child in OOHC
4.58 Mail to Child in OOHC
4.59 Change of Surname for a Youth in OOHC
4.60 State I.D. and Driver's License for Children in the Custody of the Cabinet
4.61 Employment for a Youth in OOHC
4.62 Household Work and Operation of Machinery
4.63 Athletic Program Participation
4.64 Census Count for a Youth in OOHC
4.65 Credit Reports for Youth in Foster Care
4.66 Critical Situations
4.67 Locating Missing Children-Including Runaways
Standards of Practice Manual
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4.16 Participants and Notification for All OOHC Cases
Effective: 10/6/2020
4.16 Participants and Notification for All OOHC Cases
Legal Authority
Introduction
Introduction
Practice Guidance
Practice Guidance
The SSW may invite and involve the following individuals (with the parent's consent), not inclusive in case planning:
Community partners, including service providers;
Extended family members;
The independent living coordinator (ILC) for all youth ages seventeen (17) and over; and
Other participants the family wants present.
Procedure
Procedure
The SSW:
Is required to invite the following individuals to the case planning conference:
Both legal and biological parents, absent parents, non-custodial parents and family members, including identified fathers as outlined in SOP 4.15 Family Attachment and Involvement;
Children, six (6) years of age and older (unless there is a clinical justification for not doing so, or the SSW has evaluated the child and deems it not in child’s best interest to participate);
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Other Cabinet staff involved; Objective third party as required for periodic reviews;
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Two (2) people chosen by the child (who are not a foster parent or caseworker for the child), when the child has attained fourteen (14) years of age; (Section 475 (1)(B) of the Social Security Act)
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Parent’s attorney, if applicable;
Guardian ad litem (GAL); County attorney;
Caregiver (foster parents, private child care provider, relative, etc.);
Court-appointed special advocate (CASA); and
Private child care (PCP) case manager.
Is required to permit a child to designate one of their chosen participants to be the child’s advisor, and as necessary, to advocate with regard to the application of the reasonable and prudent parenting standard; (Section 475 (1)(B) of the Social Security Act)
Is required to notify all participants of any case planning conference, ten (10) calendar days prior to the conference for all out-of-home care (OOHC) cases, excluding the ten (10) day conference;
Notifies legal parents, biological parents, and/or guardians by certified mail;
Documents efforts to identify relatives on the DPP-1275 Relative Exploration Form;
Documents attempts to notify absent parents and non-custodial parents;
Follows the procedures outlined in SOP 4.17 Preparation for and Ten (10) Day Conference and SOP 4.18 Ongoing Case Planning to inform the parent(s) that a case planning conference occurred in their absence if a parent(s) fails to attend;
Includes absent parents in the case plan by including at least one (1) objective that addresses “non-involvement;”
Conducts an absent parent search, if the parent’s whereabouts are unknown, and documents under the objective that addresses non-involvement of the parent;
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Creates an objective and associated task that addresses the parent’s non-involvement regardless of their willingness to participate if/when the parent is located; and
Will hold the FTM at a time convenient for family members.
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Footnotes
Although the child’s capacity to participate actively in case planning will need to be decided on a case-by-case basis, as a guideline, most children who are elementary school-aged or older are expected to participate to some extent.
An objective third party is a person who is not responsible for case management and who is not in the direct line of supervision of the case. Examples include a permanency specialist, or an SSW who is not directly involved in the case or regional office staff. It is preferred that the objective third party is a protection and permanency employee. The objective third party’s signature must be on the case plan in order to appropriately document participation. The service region administrator (SRA) or designee approves third party participants who are not professional staff.
The worker, in consultation with the FSOS, may reject an individual selected by the child if the agency has cause to believe the individual would not act in the best interest of the child.
This task may prevent delays in termination of parental rights (TPR) in the future.
The FTM should be held at a neutral location that is convenient for the family, caregivers, and other meeting attendees. Consideration should be given to resource limitations of the family.
Relative Content
Documents
DPP-1275 Relative Exploration Form
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DPP-1275 Relative Exploration Form-Spanish
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Case Planning Meeting Brochure
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Independent Living Program Regional Coordinators
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Revisions
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