2.  Child in need of Protection or Services (CHIPS) › Reasonable efforts to reunite › Timelines › Permanency petition  Egregious harm › Can move right to permanency

3.  No later than six months after placement  Court reviews › Parents progress on case plan › County’s reasonable/active efforts › Plans for permanency

4.  If › Parent has maintained contact with child; › Parent Is complying with the placement plan; and › Child would benefit from reunification  The court may › Return child home › Continue for six months

5.  If parent is not maintaining contact and following case plan  Court may order county to proceed with permanency › File permanency petition within 30 days › Hold trial within 60 days

6.  Admit-deny hearing on permanency petition not later than 12 months after placement  At admit-deny court must determine whether there is prima facie basis to find reasonable/active efforts

7.  “All relevant factors to be considered and evaluated”  “including a review of the relationship between the child and relatives and the child and other important persons with whom the child has resided or had significant contact”

8. Return Home

9.  Termination of Parental Rights and adoption  Guardianship to the Commissioner through consent to adopt

10.  Transfer of Legal Custody to a Relative  Permanent Custody to the Agency  Temporary Custody to the Agency

11.  BEFORE Northstar

12. ● Grandma ●Her 17 year old daughter (not the mother of the children) THEN ADD ●Her two grandchildren Bart age 12 DOC level D, 130 Lisa age 3 DOC level B, 70

13. https://edocs.dhs.state.mn.us/lfserver/Le gacy/DHS-2834-ENG https://edocs.dhs.state.mn.us/lfserver/Le gacy/DHS-2834-ENG

14.  Grandma on MFIP$ 379  Grandma not on MFIP$ 685  Adoption Subsidy$ 1229  Foster Care$ 2679

15.  Goals › “Reducing the number of children who leave foster care without a permanent family › Reducing the benefit discrepancies between permanency options › Reducing the length of stay for children in out-of-home care › Increasing the percentage of children adopted within 24 months of entry into foster care” Northstar Care for Children, Practice Guide, Pg. 5

16.  http://www.lawlibrary.state.mn.us/archiv e/supct/9801/c6962365.htm http://www.lawlibrary.state.mn.us/archiv e/supct/9801/c6962365.htm