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•..,Ln Carolina Division of Social Services '4 Family Services Manual - - i, - -�.p. ` volume I: Children's Services s: Chapter II: •Child Welfar • e lfare Services Fu APPENDIX J • Funding Strategies Permanencv Planning 1000 Allocation I. Funds Allocated for Permanency p Revised 10_1_85 Y Tanning Since July 1, 1980, the Division has a Si social services for allocated funds to count support-services l e vi to permanency planning. These y Used are designated children and. families funds are ingd ap services cases.ignaSted`,as in permanency substitute Prevention services. eases or substitutegcaTeeloads preserving she eices to prevent placement emphasize the value of home and preserving family unit and the importance to c to help family. These services also focus on children of their titan p parents maintain a home for their child. agent substitute care emphasize each child's right e agency's responsibility and the potential Services to relationship in foster care•ntial jeopardy to emotional g to continuity growth of long-term,Y of relationship impermanent The funds are allocated on the basis of county population with Departmental colic the use of Departmental y. The criteria which follows are established accordance allocated for permanency planning, establi shed for A. Requirements for Reimbursement of Permanen 1. Target cY Planning Funds g Population - Reimbursement is allowable for services to the populations described below. a. A preventive child is at services case is a family where means that high or moderate risk of at least one necessitating those circumstancesrcurrentiviiioh risk placed k• al are corrected, the child will within 30 days; moderate risk means that unless be circumstances which might precipitate the • are corrected unless the within 3 months the child need placed.removal will be plated. b. A substitute care services case children in placement and is a Tamil children relative family reunification, a child or or implemented;Place,ent is the plan which return home also included is being developed case is a child and, if a as a substitute • the appropriate, his siblings for plan is adoption- g or whom Z= • Caseload Size • When reimbursement When permanency is claimed from fu la funds planning, silo g, the w allocated perms ticker for testy planning caseload must have a limited Caseload. shall be limited to: A 1 No more than twenty families where there or moderate risk of is a child at high • placement; or - 2.: No more than Sixteen families . children, where family with no more than or ado y reunification placement, adoption is the plan which is beiri relative placement, g developed or • - 1 -