Iowa Code 237.22 – Case permanency plan
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The agency responsible for the placement of the child shall create a case permanency plan. In addition to requirements stated in section 232.2, subsection 4, the plan shall also include but not be limited to:
1. Time frames to meet the stated permanency goal and short-term objectives.
Terms Used In Iowa Code 237.22
- Agency: means a person which provides child foster care and which does not meet the definition of an individual as defined under this section. See Iowa Code 237.1
- Child: includes but shall not be limited to a stepchild, foster child, or legally adopted child and means a child actually or apparently under eighteen years of age, and a dependent person eighteen years of age or over who is unable to maintain the person's self and is likely to become a public charge. See Iowa Code 252A.2
- Child: means child as defined in section 234. See Iowa Code 237.1
- state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories, and the words "United States" may include the said district and territories. See Iowa Code 4.1
2. The care and services that will be provided to the child, biological parents, the child’s fictive kin, and foster parents.
3. The efforts to place the child with a relative or fictive kin.
4. The rationale for an out-of-state placement, and the efforts to prevent such placement, if the child has been placed out of state.