Hawaii Administrative Rules › Title 17 - DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES › Department of Human Services › Chapter 1610 - CHILD WELFARE CASEWORK SERVICES › Subchapter 3 - ASSESSMENT AND INTERVENTION SERVICES › Section 17-1610-26 - Case plan

Current through June, 2024
(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
				  develop with the family a case plan. The case plan shall be written and
				  approved no later than sixty days subsequent to the date of the receipt of the
				  report of abuse or neglect or for any out-of-home placement, no later than
				  sixty days from the date the child was removed from the home, whichever is
				  earlier.
(b) The case plan shall be
				  a written document, which is a discrete part of the case record, prepared in
				  accordance with departmental procedures that, at a minimum, contains the
				  following:
(1) A written current assessment
				  of the safety and/or risk of the child based on criteria pursuant to section
				  587A-7,
				  HRS, and a service or permanent plan prepared by the department that at a
				  minimum contains goals, objectives, services, the responsibilities of parties
				  to the case plan, timeframes, consequences, and a likely date for successful
				  completion of the plan.
(2) In
				  addition to the requirements of paragraph (1), for each child in out-of-home
				  care the case plan shall include at a minimum:
(A) A statement indicating whether prevention
				  of the out-of-home placement was possible;
(B) A description of the services offered and
				  provided to the child and family and the reasonable efforts made by the
				  department to prevent removal of the child from the home and reunify the child
				  with the family;
(C) The type of
				  out-of-home placement in which a child is placed or is to be placed;
(D) The services provided to the child and
				  resource caregivers in order to address the needs of the child while in
				  out-of-home care;
(E) Efforts to
				  ensure that the child's placement is the least restrictive, most family like
				  setting in close proximity to the family home and an explanation of how the
				  placement is consistent with the best interests and special needs of the child
				  provided that:
(i) If the child has been
				  placed a substantial distance from the home of the parents, or in a different
				  state, sets forth the reasons why such a placement is in the best interests of
				  the child;
(F) The
				  safety and appropriateness of the placement;
(G) The plan for ensuring the child receives
				  safe and proper care and a description of how the needs of the child while in
				  out-of-home care will be addressed;
(H) The services that shall be provided to
				  the parents and child to improve conditions in the home, facilitate the return
				  of the child to the home, or to establish a permanent placement;
(I) The health and education records of the
				  child, including:
(i) The names and addresses
				  of the child's health and educational providers;
(ii) The child's grade level
				  performance;
(iii) The child's
				  school record;
(iv) Assurances that
				  the placement of the child in foster care takes into account the
				  appropriateness of the current educational setting and the proximity to the
				  school in which the child is enrolled at the time of placement; and
(v) Assurance that the department has
				  coordinated with appropriate local educational agencies to ensure that the
				  child remains in the school in which the child is enrolled at the time of
				  placement; or
(vi) If remaining in
				  such school is not in the best interests of the child, assurances by the
				  department and the local educational agencies to provide immediate and
				  appropriate enrollment in a new school, with all of the educational records of
				  the child provided to the school;
(vii) A record of the child's
				  immunizations;
(viii) The child's
				  known medical problems;
(ix) The
				  child's medications; and
(x) Any
				  other relevant health and education information concerning the child determined
				  to be appropriate by the department;
(J) Where appropriate, for a child twelve
				  years or over, a plan to help the child prepare for the transition from foster
				  care to independent living;
(K) The
				  appropriateness of the services that have been offered to the child;
(L) For a child whose permanency plan is
				  adoption or placement into another permanent home, the steps the department is
				  taking to find a permanent home and finalize the placement of the child into a
				  permanent home, including but not limited to documentation that includes
				  child-specific recruitment efforts such as the use of state, regional and
				  national adoption exchanges, including electronic exchange systems to
				  facilitate orderly and timely in-state and out-of-state placements;
				  and
(M) If the child has been
				  placed in out-of-home care in a state outside the state in which the child's
				  legal custodian is located, provisions to ensure that an agency caseworker, of
				  either state, visits the child no less frequently than monthly and submits a
				  report on the visit to the department, to be provided to appropriate
				  parties.