Minnesota Statutes Public Welfare and Related Activities (Ch. 245-267) § 260C.708. Out-of-home placement plan for qualified residential treatment program placements

(1) the case plan requirements insection 260C.212;

(2) the reasonable and good faith efforts of the responsible social services agency to identify and include all of the individuals required to be on the child's family and permanency team undersection 260C.007;

(3) all contact information for members of the child's family and permanency team and for other relatives who are not part of the family and permanency team;

(4) evidence that the agency scheduled meetings of the family and permanency team, including meetings relating to the assessment required undersection 260C.704, at a time and place convenient for the family;

(5) evidence that the family and permanency team is involved in the assessment required undersection 260C.704to determine the appropriateness of the child's placement in a qualified residential treatment program;

(6) the family and permanency team's placement preferences for the child in the assessment required undersection 260C.704. When making a decision about the child's placement preferences, the family and permanency team must recognize:

(7) when reunification of the child with the child's parent or legal guardian is the agency's goal, evidence demonstrating that the parent or legal guardian provided input about the members of the family and permanency team undersection 260C.706;

(8) when the agency's permanency goal is to reunify the child with the child's parent or legal guardian, the out-of-home placement plan must identify services and supports that maintain the parent-child relationship and the parent's legal authority, decision-making, and responsibility for ongoing planning for the child. In addition, the agency must assist the parent with visiting and contacting the child;

(9) when the agency's permanency goal is to transfer permanent legal and physical custody of the child to a proposed guardian or to finalize the child's adoption, the case plan must document the agency's steps to transfer permanent legal and physical custody of the child or finalize adoption, as required insection 260C.212, subdivision 1, paragraph (c), clauses (6) and (7); and

(10) the qualified individual's recommendation regarding the child's placement in a qualified residential treatment program and the court approval or disapproval of the placement as required insection 260C.71.