A court action that gives a dependent child a permanent place to live. For example, adoption or guardianship.
Planning and services by a social service agency to reunite a child in substitute care with his or her natural parents. When this is not possible or not in the child's interest, the agency seeks termination of parental rights and arranges for the child's adoption or attempts to locate and support another permanent placement for the child. The goal is that every child for whom the social service agency is responsible grows up in one permanent home. See s. 48.38, Wisconsin Statutes.
The case-worker coordinates services for the youth and family to fix the problems that led to the youth’s placement in state custody. The goal is to assure a long-term placement for the youth. This may be going home, staying in long-term foster care until age 18 or 21, or being placed for adoption.
The strategy of carrying out a set of direct activities designed to help children live in permanent families. This process has the goal of providing the child continuity of relationships with nurturing parents or caretakers and the opportunity to establish lifetime family relationships
A process to obtain for a child a permanent, stable and secure upbringing, either within their original family or by providing satisfactory alternative parenting (eg with foster carers, adoptive parents or other extended family members). Its aim is to avoid long periods of insecurity or repeated disruptions in children's lives.
Legal and social work practices for children in out-of-home care with the goal of achieving a permanent family for the child through family reunification or an alternative such as adoption, guardianship or permanent relative placement.
Permanency planning begins when a child enters the child welfare system. All services and interventions are offered with permanency for the child in mind. When a case is in “PP†it means that reunification is no longer a priority in the case plan.