Child in need of Protection or Services (CHIPS)› Reasonable efforts to reunite› Timelines› Permanency petition

Egregious harm› Can move right to permanency

No later than six months after placement

Court reviews› Parents progress on case plan› County’s reasonable/active efforts› Plans for permanency

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

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

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

“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”

Return Home

Termination of Parental Rights and adoption

Guardianship to the Commissioner through consent to adopt

Transfer of Legal Custody to a Relative

Permanent Custody to the Agency

Temporary Custody to the Agency

BEFORE Northstar

● 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

•https://edocs.dhs.state.mn.us/lfserver/Legacy/DHS-2834-ENG

Grandma on MFIP $ 379

Grandma not on MFIP $ 685

Adoption Subsidy $ 1229

Foster Care $ 2679

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

http://www.lawlibrary.state.mn.us/archive/supct/9801/c6962365.htm