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1 Reasonable Efforts to Preserve or Reunify Families and Achieve Permanency for Children 1 (2020)

handle is hein.scsl/reefpr0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Reasonable Efforts to Preserve or Reunify Families and Achieve Permanency for Children To find statute information for a particular State, go to the State Statutes Search. Reasonable efforts refers to activities of State social services agencies that aim to provide the assistance and services needed to preserve and reunify families. The Federal title IV-E program requires States to make reasonable efforts to preserve and reunify families (i) prior to the placement of a child in foster care, to prevent or eliminate the need for removing the child from the child's home; and (ii) to make it possible for a child to safely return to the child's home.1 Laws in all States, the District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands require that child welfare agencies make reasonable efforts to provide services that will help families remedy the conditions that brought the child and family into the child welfare system. 42 U.S.C. § 671(a)(15) (2018) Child Welfare . . Information Gateway PROTECTING CHILDREN *l STRENGTIIENING FAMILIES WHAT'S INSIDE What are reasonable efforts? When reasonable efforts are required When reasonable efforts are not required ItChidren's Bra