Trial Home Visits 624-05-15-35-15

(New 2/1/17 ML #3487)

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PI 21-15

 

 

A trial home visit must be a planned, formalized, agency-supervised visit in the reunification home for a specified, limited period of time not to exceed six months unless otherwise authorized by the court. The trial home visit ends when the child is removed from the home and placed in an out of home placement or the child is reunified. The case manager must notify the financial county of the change in placement (SFN 45).

 

Trial home placements cannot exceed 6 months unless ordered by the court.

A trial home visit must be:

  1. Determined appropriate at the Child and Family Team meeting,
  2. Entered into a child’s case plan (along with a safety plan), and
  3. Updated in the data management system under placements.

Foster care maintenance payments are not made when a child is placed on a trial home visit.

NOTE: Casual or incidental short term visits (Ex: to attend a wedding or funeral with family) are not considered “trial home visits” even if they are part of the child’s reunification plan.

 

Discharge: 18+ Trial Independence

Trial Independence is not a trial home visit (See 18+ policy 624-05-23).

During Trial Independence all case management responsibilities end and the foster care program is closed.