Extensive efforts shall be made to protect a child from unnecessary separation from the child's family or relatives. The agency's policies and procedures shall be written in accordance with these objectives and shall include the following:

1. (1) Intake services to determine whether or not the agency is suited to the client's needs;
2. (2) Treatment planning services through which the client and worker jointly determine the need and the services to be provided;
3. (3) Preplacement prevention services to resolve identified needs so as to prevent the separation of a child from parents;
4. (4) Permanency planning services provided after the placement of a child in a temporary foster home to help the child return to the child's family or to help the child achieve a permanent placement in the home of a relative, in an adoptive home, in a guardianship arrangement, in a long-term foster home placement, or in another permanent placement;
5. (5) Home finding - services for the recruitment, development, approval, and maintenance of foster and adoptive homes that reflects the ethnic and racial diversity of the child for whom a foster or adoptive home is needed;
6. (6) Placement and supervision - services associated with placement of a child in foster care or an adoptive home to insure successful placement; and

7. (7) Follow-up services to determine a client's need for further service.

   Cross-References: Definition of case plan, § 67:42:01:01; Foster care plan, § 67:42:09:17.

Source: 7 SDR 66, 7 SDR 89, effective July 1, 1981; 12 SDR 187, effective May 29, 1986; 27 SDR 121, effective May 28, 2001; 39 SDR 220, effective June 27, 2013.

General Authority: SDCL 26-6-16.

Law Implemented: SDCL 26-6-16.