CHIPS Permanency Timeline Training - Children's Justice Initiative

Achieving timely child safety, wellbeing, and permanency (for example, reunification, transfer of custody to a relative, and adoption) are the foundational principles underlying the procedures and decisions in all child protection proceedings. This training is designed to provide an overview of the hearings and key events along the permanency timeline, as well as information about how to calculate the 12 months involved in the timeline, and strategies to improve time to permanency for children in out-of-home placement consistent with federal and state statutes and rules and Minnesota Judicial Branch performance measures. 

County data will be provided for CJI teams to review to determine what steps need to be taken to move forward cases that are at risk of going beyond the 12-month timeline. CJI teams can also determine whether any practice changes should be implemented to prevent future cases from going beyond the 12-month timeline.

Contact the state CJI program if you are interested in requesting this remote training in your county.