ARSD 67:42:09:13. Standard requirements and responsibilities in the provision of client services

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) Intake services to determine whether or not the agency is suited to the client's needs; (2) Treatment planning services through which the client and worker jointly determine the need and the services to be provided; (3) Preplacement prevention services to resolve identified needs so as to prevent the separation of a child from parents; (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) 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) Placement and supervision - services associated with placement of a child in foster care or an adoptive home to insure successful placement; and (7) Follow-up services to determine a client's need for further service.