1. (a) The Family Service Worker or Adoption Specialist, when learning about the petition to adopt, will immediately notify the Area Director or designee, Adoption Supervisor, Office of Chief Counsel attorney, and Adoption Manager or designee, then follow up with written notification.

2. (b) The Family Service Worker will:

   1. (1) Arrange a staffing to determine if adoptive placement is appropriate to consider;
   2. (2) Submit the results and recommendations from the staffing to the Area Director or designee, Adoptions Specialist, and Adoptions Supervisor;
   3. (3) Direct staff to follow procedures outlined above;
   4. (4) Work with the Office of Chief Counsel attorney in regard to pending litigation if it appears that the resource parent, provisional resource parent, relative, or fictive kin would not be suitable adoptive parents for the child; and
   5. (5) Notify the Adoption Supervisor if information regarding other prospective adoptive families for the child is needed.

Codification Notes: This section as promulgated prior to codification into the Code of Arkansas Rules provided as follows: "01/2021"