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232.189 REASONABLE EFFORTS ADMINISTRATIVE
REQUIREMENTS.
Based upon a model reasonable efforts family court initiative, the
director of human services and the chief justice of the supreme court
or their designees shall jointly establish and implement a statewide
protocol for reasonable efforts, as defined in section 232.102. In
addition, the director and the chief justice shall design and
implement a system for judicial and departmental reasonable efforts
education for deployment throughout the state. The system for
reasonable efforts education shall be developed in a manner which
addresses the particular needs of rural areas and shall include but
is not limited to all of the following topics:
1. Regular training concerning mental or emotional disorders
which may afflict children and the impact children with such
disorders have upon their families.
2. The duties of judicial and departmental employees associated
with placing a child removed from the child's home into a permanent
home and the urgency of the placement for the child.
3. The essential elements, including writing techniques, in
developing effective permanency plans.
4. The essential elements of gathering evidence sufficient for
the evidentiary standards required for judicial orders under this
chapter. Section History: Recent Form
92 Acts, ch 1229, § 19; 95 Acts, ch 182, § 13; 98 Acts, ch 1190,
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