The placing of a child in foster care for extended periods, perhaps even for the child’s entire minority, in lieu of family reunification, termination and adoption, or guardianship. • Although most courts do not generally find this arrangement to be in a child’s best interests, sometimes it is the only possibility, as when the child, […]
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foster care. 1. A federally funded child-welfare program providing substitute care for abused and neglected children who have been removed by court order from their parents’ or guardians’ care or for children voluntarily placed by their parents in the temporary care of the state because of a family crisis. 42 USCA §§ 670–679a. • The
permanency plan. A proposed written strategy for the eventual permanent placement of a child who has been removed from his or her parents. • A permanency plan, ideally, provides either for the child’s safe return to one or both parents or for the child’s adoption. If neither of these alternatives is possible, then the plan
independent-living program. Family law. A training course designed to enable foster children who are near the age of majority to leave the foster-care system and manage their own affairs as adults. • Independent living programs provide education, training, and financial and employment counseling. They also help many foster youth in locating suitable post-foster-care housing. Permanency
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