Concurrent Planning (Adoption) Law and Legal Definition
Concurrent Planning is an innovative foster care case management tool that is employed by caseworkers and other child welfare staff members. Their primary goal is family reunification, while at the same time, they also develop an alternative permanency plan for the child. This alternate plan will often include adoption as the major alternative to family reunification. If the family reunification efforts fail, then the alternate plan will already be in place. Concurrent planning is intended to reduce the total period of time a child will remain in foster care before being permanently placed with a family.
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Related Legal Terms
- Abandonment [Intercountry Adoption]
- Accredited Agency [Adoption]
- Accredited Body [Adoption]
- Accrediting Entity [Adoption]
- Acquisition Planning
- Adoption
- Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System (AFCARS)
- Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA)
- Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980
- Adoption Disruption
