2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 11 - Juvenile Code, Human Services › Chapter 419A - Juvenile Code: General Provisions and Definitions › Section 419A.116 - Findings and recommendations; judicial review.

(1) After reviewing each case, the local citizen review board shall make written findings and recommendations with respect to:
(a) Whether reasonable efforts were made prior to the placement, to prevent or eliminate the need for removal of the child or ward from the home;
(b) If the case plan at the time of the review is to reunify the family, whether the Department of Human Services has made reasonable efforts to make it possible for the child or ward to safely return home and whether the parent has made sufficient progress to make it possible for the child or ward to safely return home;
(c) If the case plan at the time of the review is something other than to reunify the family, whether the department has made reasonable efforts to place the child or ward in a timely manner in accordance with the case plan, including, if appropriate, placement of the child or ward through an interstate placement, and to complete the steps necessary to finalize the permanent placement of the child or ward;
(d) The continuing need for and appropriateness of the placement;
(e) Compliance with the case plan;
(f) The progress which has been made toward alleviating the need for placement;
(g) A likely date by which the child or ward may be returned home or placed for adoption;
(h) Other problems, solutions or alternatives the board determines should be explored;
(i) Whether the court should appoint an attorney or other person as special advocate to represent or appear on behalf of the child or ward under ORS 419B.195;
(j) For a ward 16 years of age or older with a permanency plan of another planned permanent living arrangement, the steps the department is taking to ensure that:
(A) The ward’s substitute care provider is following the reasonable and prudent parent standard; and
(B) The ward has regular, ongoing opportunities to engage in age-appropriate or developmentally appropriate activities, including consultation with the ward in an age-appropriate manner about the opportunities the ward has to participate in the activities;
(k) Whether there is reason to know, as described in ORS 419B.636, that the child or ward is an Indian child; and
(L) If there is reason to know the child or ward is an Indian child:
(A) Whether the department made active efforts, as described in ORS 419B.645, to prevent the breakup of the Indian family prior to the child’s removal;
(B) If the case plan at the time of the review is to reunify the family, whether the department has provided active efforts to make it possible for the child to safely return home and whether the parent has made sufficient progress to make it possible for the child to return home;
(C) If the case plan at the time of review is to reunify the family and the child or ward is placed in a home outside the placement preferences described in ORS 419B.654, whether the department has continued to maintain the relationship of the child or ward with potential adoption preferences or whether the department has continued to search for a permanent placement that satisfies the placement preferences described in ORS 419B.654; and
(D) If the case plan at the time of the review is something other than to reunify the family, whether the department has made active efforts to place the child in a timely manner in accordance with the placement preferences under ORS 419B.654.
(2) The local citizen review board may, if the case plan has changed during the period since the last review by a local citizen review board or court hearing, make written findings and recommendations with respect to:
(a) Whether the Department of Human Services has made reasonable efforts or, if the child is an Indian child, active efforts to make it possible for the child or ward to safely return home and whether the parent has made sufficient progress to make it possible for the child or ward to safely return home, if a plan to reunify the family was in effect for any part of the period since the last review or hearing; or
(b) Whether the department has made reasonable efforts to place the child or ward in a timely manner in accordance with the case plan, including, if appropriate, placement of the child or ward through an interstate placement, and to complete the steps necessary to finalize the permanent placement of the child or ward, if a case plan other than to reunify the family was in effect for any part of the period since the last review or hearing.
(3) In determining whether the Department of Human Services has made reasonable efforts or, if the child is an Indian child, active efforts to make it possible for the child or ward to safely return home, the local citizen review board shall consider the child or ward’s health and safety the paramount concerns.
(4) No later than 10 days after receiving the findings and recommendations of the local citizen review board, a party adversely affected by the findings and recommendations may request judicial review. [1993 c.33 §31; 2001 c.686 §20; 2003 c.396 §22; 2007 c.611 §3; 2015 c.254 §2; 2020 s.s.1 c.14 §52; 2021 c.398 §53a]