The Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA) requires states begin termination proceedings when a child resides in foster care for fifteen out of the last twenty-two months. Many states interpret this to mean that an incarcerated parent is unfit when they leave their child in foster care just ...
The passage of the federal Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA), which calls for timely permanency planning for children placed into state foster care systems, has led to increased attention to the need for timely and appropriate treatment services to families with substance abuse issues who are...
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With the number of Americans suffering from addiction at an all-time high, child protective and social services agencies need a coordinated response to ensure that children spend less time in foster care. The Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA) of 1997 sought to improve the permanency process...
With the number of Americans suffering from addiction at an all-time high, child protective and social services agencies need a coordinated response to ensure that children spend less time in foster care. The Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA) of 1997 sought to improve the permanency process...
Congress's response, the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997 (ASFA), identifies three exceptions to the reasonable efforts requirement, one of which is aggravated circumstances. This article uses the aggravated circumstance exception to identify situations where reunification efforts should be denied...
In this article, the author discusses the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997 (ASFA), which was signed by U.S. President Bill Clinton in November 1997. As reported, ASFA required a more active role of the court in processing and supervising abuse and neglect cases, and its purpose ...
In this chapter, the author shares her thoughts about her life in prison, her children, motherhood, the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997, and termination of parental rights.doi:10.1525/california/9780520252493.003.0014E. Carole
The Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA) of 1997 includes provisions to deny reunification services under specified conditions and gives states latitude to develop any number of additional "aggravated circumstances" in which parents need not be offered services. California legislators have developed ...