232.196 RUNAWAY ASSESSMENT CENTER.
1. As part of a county runaway treatment plan under section
232.195, a county may establish a runaway assessment center or other
plan. The center or other plan, if established, shall provide
services to assess a child who is referred to the center or plan for
being a chronic runaway and intensive family counseling services
designed to address any problem causing the child to run away. A
center shall at least meet the requirements established for providing
child foster care under chapter 237.
2. a. If not sent home with the child's parent, guardian, or
custodian, a chronic runaway may be placed in a runaway assessment
center by the peace officer who takes the child into custody under
section 232.19, if the officer believes it to be in the child's best
interest after consulting with the child's parent, guardian, or
custodian. A chronic runaway shall not be placed in a runaway
assessment center for more than forty-eight hours.
b. If a runaway is placed in an assessment center according
to a county plan, the runaway shall be assessed within twenty-four
hours of being placed in the center by a center counselor to
determine the following:
(1) The reasons why the child is a runaway.
(2) Whether the initiation or continuation of child in need of
assistance or family in need of assistance proceedings is
appropriate.
c. As soon as practicable following the assessment, the child
and the child's parents, guardian, or custodian shall be provided the
opportunity for a counseling session to identify the underlying
causes of the runaway behavior and develop a plan to address those
causes.
d. A child shall be released from a runaway assessment
center, established pursuant to the county plan, to the child's
parents, guardian, or custodian not later than forty-eight hours
after being placed in the center unless the child is placed in
shelter care under section 232.21 or an order is entered under
section 232.78. A child whose parents, guardian, or custodian failed
to attend counseling at the center or fail to take custody of the
child at the end of placement in the center may be the subject of a
child in need of assistance petition or such other order as the
juvenile court finds to be in the child's best interest.
Section History: Recent Form
97 Acts, ch 90, §4; 98 Acts, ch 1100, §29
Referred to in § 232.19
Footnotes
Renewal of funding for county runaway treatment plan; 2008 Acts,
ch 1187, §16
232.196 RUNAWAY ASSESSMENT CENTER.
1. As part of a county runaway treatment plan under section
232.195, a county may establish a runaway assessment center or other
plan. The center or other plan, if established, shall provide
services to assess a child who is referred to the center or plan for
being a chronic runaway and intensive family counseling services
designed to address any problem causing the child to run away. A
center shall at least meet the requirements established for providing
child foster care under chapter 237.
2. a. If not sent home with the child's parent, guardian, or
custodian, a chronic runaway may be placed in a runaway assessment
center by the peace officer who takes the child into custody under
section 232.19, if the officer believes it to be in the child's best
interest after consulting with the child's parent, guardian, or
custodian. A chronic runaway shall not be placed in a runaway
assessment center for more than forty-eight hours.
b. If a runaway is placed in an assessment center according
to a county plan, the runaway shall be assessed within twenty-four
hours of being placed in the center by a center counselor to
determine the following:
(1) The reasons why the child is a runaway.
(2) Whether the initiation or continuation of child in need of
assistance or family in need of assistance proceedings is
appropriate.
c. As soon as practicable following the assessment, the child
and the child's parents, guardian, or custodian shall be provided the
opportunity for a counseling session to identify the underlying
causes of the runaway behavior and develop a plan to address those
causes.
d. A child shall be released from a runaway assessment
center, established pursuant to the county plan, to the child's
parents, guardian, or custodian not later than forty-eight hours
after being placed in the center unless the child is placed in
shelter care under section 232.21 or an order is entered under
section 232.78. A child whose parents, guardian, or custodian failed
to attend counseling at the center or fail to take custody of the
child at the end of placement in the center may be the subject of a
child in need of assistance petition or such other order as the
juvenile court finds to be in the child's best interest.
Section History: Recent Form
97 Acts, ch 90, §4; 98 Acts, ch 1100, §29
Referred to in § 232.19
Footnotes
Renewal of funding for county runaway treatment plan; 2008 Acts,
ch 1187, §16
232.196 RUNAWAY ASSESSMENT CENTER.
1. As part of a county runaway treatment plan under section
232.195, a county may establish a runaway assessment center or other
plan. The center or other plan, if established, shall provide
services to assess a child who is referred to the center or plan for
being a chronic runaway and intensive family counseling services
designed to address any problem causing the child to run away. A
center shall at least meet the requirements established for providing
child foster care under chapter 237.
2. a. If not sent home with the child's parent, guardian, or
custodian, a chronic runaway may be placed in a runaway assessment
center by the peace officer who takes the child into custody under
section 232.19, if the officer believes it to be in the child's best
interest after consulting with the child's parent, guardian, or
custodian. A chronic runaway shall not be placed in a runaway
assessment center for more than forty-eight hours.
b. If a runaway is placed in an assessment center according
to a county plan, the runaway shall be assessed within twenty-four
hours of being placed in the center by a center counselor to
determine the following:
(1) The reasons why the child is a runaway.
(2) Whether the initiation or continuation of child in need of
assistance or family in need of assistance proceedings is
appropriate.
c. As soon as practicable following the assessment, the child
and the child's parents, guardian, or custodian shall be provided the
opportunity for a counseling session to identify the underlying
causes of the runaway behavior and develop a plan to address those
causes.
d. A child shall be released from a runaway assessment
center, established pursuant to the county plan, to the child's
parents, guardian, or custodian not later than forty-eight hours
after being placed in the center unless the child is placed in
shelter care under section 232.21 or an order is entered under
section 232.78. A child whose parents, guardian, or custodian failed
to attend counseling at the center or fail to take custody of the
child at the end of placement in the center may be the subject of a
child in need of assistance petition or such other order as the
juvenile court finds to be in the child's best interest.
Section History: Recent Form
97 Acts, ch 90, §4; 98 Acts, ch 1100, §29
Referred to in § 232.19
Footnotes
Renewal of funding for county runaway treatment plan; 2008 Acts,
ch 1187, §16
