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MINIMUM Expectations
- Contact with your child: You MUST visit your child accordingly based on how far away they are placed.
1 Hour = Once a month
1-3 Hours = Once every 3 months
3 Hours or more = Once every 6 months
- Age appropriate contact: Contact with your child(ren) is not limited to face to face. Other ways to contact them are phone calls, emails, texts, courtesy visits (from another CASA)
- Monthly Communication with Caregiver: This can be done either face to face, email, text, phone or other documented text.
- Monthly Communication with CPS Caseworker: This can be done either face to face, email, text, phone or other documented text.
- Monthly Communication with CASA Supervisor: This can be done either face to face, email, text, phone, case conferences or other documented text.
- Quarterly Communication with Biological Parents: This can be done either face to face, email, text, phone or other documented text.
- Age Appropriate Educational Advocacy: At least once every three months you must check in on their educational needs by talking to a teacher, principal, school counselor, attending an ARD meeting, educational portfolio viewing, or other documented text.
- Medical Advocacy: At least once every three months you must check in on their medical advocacy. This may be done by face to face, email, text, phone or other documented text with medical providers, therapist, or Health Passport viewing. Health passport is going to be the easiest way to meet this requirement. Meet with Jamie and she can log you into their portal.
- Legal Advocacy: At least once every three months you must have contact with your child(ren)s attorney ad litem. This may be done face to face, email, text, or other documented text.
- Participation in Case Related Meetings: If you are not able to attend all case related meetings you must contact Debbie, Connie or Jamie and see if they can sit in for you. This includes permanency conferences, family group conferences, staffing, or any other case related meetings. If you are not able to be there in person you can request to be phone conferenced into the meeting.
- Appearance at all Hearings: If you are not able to attend court you must contact Debbie, Connie or Jamie to represent you in court. You must still write your court report and communicate to whoever is representing you as to what you want said in court.
- Court Reports: All court reports MUST be done and submitted to Debbie 10 BUSINESS DAYS prior to your court date. Look on OPTIMA to see your next court date and the date your court report is due.
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