Juvenile Court Foster Care Eligibility Toolkit: Post Permanency Hearing

The Post Permanency Review Hearing is held at least every six months after the Selection and Implementation Hearing or any other hearing that places a child into Another Planned Permanent Living Arrangement (APPLA) to review the status of the child and determine whether the Agency is making reasonable efforts to:

• Finalize the child’s permanent plan.
• Develop and implement a more permanent plan for the child where the permanent plan APPLA.

Timelines, Notice and Report

•  A case review must be held at least once every six months (WIC 366.3(a) 727.2).
• All parties must be served with notice of the hearing, no earlier than 30 days before and no less than 15 days before the hearing.
• Per WIC 366.3(e) and 727(g), a report must be submitted to the court. For purposes of foster care funding, the report should detail the services provided to the family so that the court can make the requisite findings that:

1. The child’s placement is necessary and appropriate.
2. “The county has made reasonable efforts to finalize the permanent placement of the child.”
3. The permanent plan is appropriate and order that plan for the child.

1. At each Post Permanency Review Hearing, the court must make a determination as to whether the Agency made reasonable efforts to make and finalize the permanent placement of the child.
2. The court must find that the child’s placement is necessary and appropriate.
3. The court must also make a finding about the appropriateness of the permanent plan identified for the child and order that the plan be implemented.

At the Post Permanency Hearing, the court can order the following:

• For the child to return home
• Reinstate reunification services
• Set a WIC 366.26 Hearing
• Order APPLA
• Termination of Jurisdiction
• Termination of Jurisdiction - child reaches age of majority

Download and review samples.

Sample Post Permanency Hearing: Delinquency

Sample Post Permanency Hearing: Dependency