Current through Register Vol. 24-24, December 15, 2024
(1)
The department's adoption services for children include:
(a) Social work services with birth parents
focused on locating a permanent home for the children.
(b) Social work services with children
focusing on the child's educational, medical, psychological, and developmental
needs;
(c) Petitioning the court
for termination of parental rights;
(d) Facilitating voluntary relinquishments
when a voluntary adoption is in the child's best interests;
(e) Assessment of children to determine their
medical and social needs including, as needed:
(i) Psychiatric evaluations;
(ii) Psychological evaluations;
(iii) Educational evaluations; and
(iv) Medical evaluations;
(f) Evaluating prospective
adoptive families through the use of the adoptive home study, also known as the
preplacement report, to determine appropriateness for adoption generally and to
determine What specific child characteristics or needs that the family will
best be able to meet.
(g) Making
adoptive placements that are best able to meet a child's needs, from available
resources;
(h) Social work services
and/or referral of children and families to services after placement;
(i) The department social worker assigned to
finalizing the adoption will assist families complete the adoption support
program application for children who may be eligible for the adoption support
program;
(j) Provision of
post-placement reports and other documents required for finalization to the
court for a child when the department:
(i)
Conducts the post-placement reports and other documents required for
finalization to the court for a child when the department:
(ii) Has custody of the child;
(k) Provision of the consent to
the adoption of a child in the department's custody.
(2) Every six months, the department must
review and adjust the case plan for children continuing in foster care under
department care and supervision. The CA social worker must develop the case
plan in accordance with chapter 13.34 RCW to achieve the permanency planning
goals for the child.
(3) The
department may utilize the following methods to locate an adoptive resource for
a child until the child has been placed with an adoptive family:
(a) Ask birth parents to identify a potential
adoptive family;
(b) The department
prefers to place a child for adoption with a fit and willing relative who is
known to the child and with whom the child is comfortable:
(i) Conduct searches for relatives who are
fit and willing to adopt the child, who are known to the child and with whom
the child is comfortable;
(ii) Ask
the relatives to be considered as a potential adoptive family;
(c) Ask current and past foster
parents if they wish to be considered as a potential adoptive family;
(d) Consider families that have an approved
adoptive home study; and/or
(e)
Conduct individualized child specific family recruitment.
Statutory Authority:
RCW
74.13.031. WSR 01-08-047, §
388-27-0035, filed 3/30/01,
effective 4/30/01.