HAR §17-1610-39. Concurrent planning

(a) For all children and families assessed as needing ongoing child welfare casework services and under the jurisdiction of the department either voluntarily or by court order, the department shall initiate concurrent planning in accordance with departmental procedures. Concurrent planning shall include but not be limited to the following: (1) An assessment to determine the needs of each child to ensure that each child's needs for safety and permanency are recognized and incorporated into intervention services, treatment, placement, and timely permanency decision making; (2) An assessment of the family's potential to maintain the child in the home or to reunify the child with the family; and (3) A casework strategy developed with the family that incorporates a plan to maintain or reunify the child with the legal custodian, and a plan to provide a permanent home in the following order of preference, through adoption, legal guardianship, or other permanent out-of-home placement should reunification not be successful. (b) Concurrent planning shall be initiated in any case where the department has joined in a petition to terminate parental rights. Concurrent planning for those cases shall include but not be limited to identification, recruitment, processing and approving a qualified adoptive family for the child. (c) Concurrent planning shall not be implemented in the case where there is a finding that the child is 1610-34 2946 an abandoned infant or where there has been a finding of aggravated circumstances by the court. [Eff DEC 09 2010] (Auth: HRS §§346-14) (Imp: HRS §§350-2, 587A-33; 42 U.S.C. §627; 45 C.F.R. §§1340.14, 1355.20, 1356.21)