Minnesota Administrative Rules
Agency 196 - Human Services Department
Chapter 9560 - SOCIAL SERVICES FOR CHILDREN
ADOPTION
Part 9560.0060 - CHILD PLACEMENT
Universal Citation: MN Rules 9560.0060
Current through Register Vol. 49, No. 13, September 23, 2024
Subpart 1. In general.
The policies in subparts 2 and 3 govern the local social service agency's preplacement and postplacement activities.
Subp. 2. Preplacement activities.
Preplacement activities must include those in items A to E.
A. The adoptive family's agency
shall, prior to the child being placed in an adoptive home, meet with the
child's agency in a preplacement conference, obtain written background and
health history on the child, and visit the child in the foster home. The
preplacement conference may only be waived if the child is under six months of
age and is without special needs.
B. The child's agency shall prepare the child
for adoptive placement and provide the adoptive parents with a written
nonidentifying background and health history of the child in which all
identifying information on the child's relatives has been omitted. The history
is to be written in a manner which is understandable and meaningful to the
adoptive family.
C. An adoptive
family shall spend at least two days in the child's community becoming
acquainted with the child prior to the transfer of physical custody from the
agency to them. This provision may be waived, in the discretion of the agency,
where extraordinary circumstances dictate prompt placement.
D. The adoptive parents shall enter into a
written adoptive placement agreement with the commissioner.
E. During the time the child resides in the
adoptive home, the local social service agency shall continue administrative
reviews but is not required to schedule a court dispositional hearing unless
the child is either removed from the home or is not legally adopted within two
years of the date of placement.
Subp. 3. Postplacement activities.
Postplacement activities must include items A and B.
A. The agency placing the child shall arrange
for and obtain written placement and postplacement reports from the agency
supervising the child in the adoptive home.
B. The supervising agency shall provide
postplacement counseling with the adoptive parents in a manner that enables the
child and adoptive family to become an integrated family.
Statutory Authority: MS s 245A.09; 257.05; 257.175; 259.53; 259.67; 259.75; 259.87
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