Permanency reports

Permanency reports for all children and young adults shall be in writing and shall include the following: (1) identifying information about the child or young adult and biological family including siblings as well as the Department's efforts to identify whether the child is an Indian Child and the result of those efforts; (2) a brief history of the legal and clinical case, including placement history; (3) the efforts the Department has made to engage and include the family in the development of the permanency plan, including the child, as appropriate, or young adult. (4) the proposed permanent plan for the child or young adult, including: i. when the plan will be accomplished, ii. what steps the Department has taken and will take to implement the permanency plan for the child or young adult, and iii. if the plan is APPLA, the compelling reason for proposing that plan, and why it continues to not be in the best interests of the child to return home; be placed for adoption; be placed with a legal guardian; or be placed with fit and willing kin. (5) services and other assistance provided, currently and in the past, to safely reunify the child with his or her parent or guardian, or, if the court has previously determined a plan other than reunification, to further that permanency plan, and the engagement of all parties with those services. The report shall include any services and needed assistance provided to accommodate a parent, child, or young adult's disability, and how the services and assistance provided are specifically tailored to meet the parent, child, or young adult's cultural background and language needs; (6) information about the current placement including: how it meets the child's or young adult's current needs and furthers the permanency plan; if the child is not placed in family foster care, the reasons the Department determined the child is in need of special care, treatment or education, and if the child is placed in foster care outside the state in which the child's parents' home is located, why the out-of-state placement continues to be appropriate and in the child's best interests; (7) medical information about the child or young adult, including ongoing treatment and medications being provided to the child or young adult, and, if the child or young adult is medically needy, a description of his or her individualized health care plan; (8) the plan for visits and/or contact with parents and among siblings; (9) results of any internal reviews by the foster care review unit; (10) a description of the child's or the young adult's educational history, needs, and current status, including efforts made to maintain school stability; (11) information about the regular, ongoing opportunities the child or young adult has had to engage in age and developmentally appropriate activities; and (12) if the proposed permanency plan for the child or young adult is APPLA: i. the intensive, ongoing, and, as of the date of the report, unsuccessful efforts made by the Department to return the child or young adult home or secure a placement for the child or young adult with kin, a legal guardian, or an adoptive parent, including efforts that utilize search technology to find biological family members, and ii. what steps the Department has taken to ensure that the foster care provider of the child or young adult is following the reasonable and prudent parent standard.