Source: http://www.californiacasa.org/tools-resources/volunteer-resources/immigration/child-welfare-services-and-reunification/
Timestamp: 2019-04-20 20:21:20+00:00

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Q: Do social workers have an obligation to make sure information and forms are provided in the language spoken by the parent and/or child?
Forms must be in the appropriate language to the extent available, and otherwise verbally translated. For example, the case plan will be in writing and may have translated headings in writing; however, the body of the case plan will be written in English. If the client is not fluent in English, the social worker must provide at least verbal translation for the client. This is true of any written document that is not in the client’s native language.
Q: Does the child’s case plan have to address the child’s progress in applying for legal residency?
Q: Whose responsibility is it to assess the immigration needs of the youth?
Q: Whose responsibility is it to actually seek relief for the immigration needs of the youth?
Q: If a parent is detained or deported, what happens to reunification services?
Q: If a parent has been detained by the Department of Homeland Security, how do they comply with their case plan so that they can have their child returned to them?
Q: How can the court find that the child is likely to be returned to a parent when the immigration actions make everything so uncertain?
Q: Can the court return a child to a parent who has been deported?
A: Absolutely, as long as doing so would not be detrimental to the child.
Q: What about when the dependency case is dismissed and the family court takes over, does immigration status affect custody?
12 See Manual of Policies and Procedures, Division 21, and All County Letters 03-56 and 06-20.
13 Manual of Policies and Procedures, Division 21-115.16. Also, All County Letter 03-56.
14 Welf. & Inst. Code § 16501.1(g)(16)(A)(ii).
15 See Welf. & Inst. Code § 317.
16 See Welf. & Inst. 362(a), and Welf. & Inst. 317(e)(7).
17 See Welf. & Inst. Code § 361.5(e)(1) and All County Letter 14-21. See also Welf & Inst. Code § 362(a).
18 See Welf. & Inst. Code § 366.22(b).
19 See Welf. & Inst. Code § 361.5(a)(3).
20 See Welf. & Inst. Code § 361.5(a)(3).
21 See Family Code § 3040(b). For See also Probate Code §§ 1510(a) and 1514(c).

References: § 16501
 § 317
 § 361
 § 362
 § 366
 § 361
 § 361
 § 3040