Current through Register Vol. 63, No. 3, March 1, 2024
(1) A permanency committee is used to
consider the permanent separation of siblings in the legal custody of the
Department through adoption, unless an adoptive resource has been selected for
one or more siblings.
(2) The
permanency committee must consider the best interests of each child in the
sibling group under consideration, and each of the following factors when
making a recommendation:
(a) The current and
lifelong needs of each child and of each sibling in the sibling group under
consideration;
(b) The existence of
each child's significant emotional ties to each sibling in the sibling group
under consideration;
(c) The needs
of each child and each sibling in the sibling group under consideration for
each of the following:
(A) Physical and
emotional safety;
(B) Ability to
develop and maintain current and lifelong connections with the child's
family;
(C) Continuity and
familiarity;
(D) Appropriate
educational, developmental, emotional, and physical support;
(E) Stability and permanency; and
(F) Maintaining his or her identity,
cultural, religious, and spiritual heritage.
(3) The permanency committee considers all of
the information, deliberates, and, when committee members agree, makes a
recommendation to the Child Welfare Program Manager or designee including one
or more of the following options:
(a)
Separation of a child from one or more siblings in the sibling group under
consideration is not in the best interest of the child or the siblings, and the
caseworker must continue to make efforts to place the siblings together for the
purpose of adoption;
(b) Separation
of a child from one or more siblings in the sibling group under consideration
for the purpose of adoption is in the best interests of the child or the
siblings; or
(c) When there are
multiple siblings, recommendations with respect to which siblings in the
sibling group under consideration should remain together for the purpose of
adoption and how those matches are in the best interests of each
sibling.
(4) When the
permanency committee cannot reach agreement, each permanency committee member
makes his or her respective recommendations known to the committee
facilitator.
(5) The Child Welfare
Program Manager or designee who makes the decision on behalf of the Department
must consider all of the following when making the decision:
(a) The considerations in subsections
(2)(a)-(c) of this rule;
(b) The
information presented to the permanency committee; and
(c) The recommendations of the permanency
committee.
Stat. Auth.: ORS
418.005
Stats. Implemented: ORS
418.005,
419B.192
