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(A) The public children services agency (PCSA) shall complete the JFS 01404 "Comprehensive Assessment and Planning Model - I.S., Reunification Assessment" (rev. 2/2006) if reunification with the removal family is being considered and the child has been placed out of the home through either a voluntary out-of-home safety plan or a legally authorized out-of-home placement for thirty days or more.
(B) The PCSA shall complete the JFS 01404 to support and document the PCSA's assessment of the family's reunification readiness. The decision regarding the family's reunification readiness includes an assessment of the following:
(1) A review of child safety.
(2) Information pertaining to the parent, guardian, or custodian's compliance with court orders, if applicable.
(3) An update on:
(a) Family conditions and dynamics.
(b) Family resources, strengths, and protective capacities.
(c) Child vulnerability.
(4) Interventions necessary to support reunification.
(C) The PCSA shall complete the JFS 01404 regardless of circumstances precipitating the child's placement out of the home or who or what entity holds custody of the child.
(D) The PCSA shall complete the JFS 01404:
(1) If the PCSA determines, through the completion of a safety re-assessment, that the child's placement out of the home for thirty days or more through either a voluntary out-of-home safety plan or a legally authorized out-of-home placement should be discontinued.
(2) If the PCSA determines, through the completion of the JFS 01413 "Comprehensive Assessment and Planning Model - I.S., Case Review" (rev. 7/2006), the risk level is reduced to moderate or below; and the child's placement out of the home for thirty days or more, through either a voluntary out-of-home safety plan or a legally authorized out-of-home placement, should be discontinued.
(3) No more than thirty days prior to any court hearing if the PCSA is requesting termination of custody and reunification of the child .
(4) Upon receipt of a court order requiring the child to be reunified.
(5) After a court hearing if the court ordered reunification.
(6) No more than thirty days prior to reunification.
(E) The PCSA may complete the JFS 01404 any time the PCSA deems appropriate or the case warrants it, regardless of the number of days the child is placed out of the home through either a voluntary out-of-home safety plan or a legally authorized out-of-home placement.
(F) The PCSA shall maintain the JFS 01404 in the case record.
Effective: 10/01/2009
R.C.
119.032 review dates: 04/01/2009
and 03/31/2014
Promulgated Under:
119.03
Statutory
Authority:
5153.16
Rule
Amplifies:
5153.16
Prior
Effective Dates: 03/01/06