Tribe: Ketchikan Indian Community
14.66 REASONABLE EFFORTS- Diligent and appropriate efforts, pursuant to the Tribal/State Agreement, this term describes the affirmative and appropriate steps the DHSS will take to make it possible to eliminate the need to remove the Alaska Native/Indian child from the home, or failing that, to return the child to the home following placement outside the home, and to insure that the emergency foster care is no longer necessary to prevent imminent physical damage or harm to the child, including sexual abuse. These efforts include social and other necessary services to the Alaska Native/Indian parent or custodian and the Alaska Native/Indian child, and by definition will not mean simply providing the Alaska Native/Indian parent with a telephone number or address to a service, especially with resistant clients. 14.67 REHABILITATIVE SERVICES – When pursuant to the Tribal/State Model Agreement, these mean the social and other services provided by the state DHSS to Alaska Native/Indian families, including parents after court action as part of a plan designed to return the Alaska Native/Indian child to his or her family after the child has been removed, or preferably to in some that reasonable efforts are made to prevent or to eliminate the need for the removal of the Alaska Native/Indian child from the family home.
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