OAR 413-030-0023: Contact and Monitoring Requirements for a Family Support Services Case Plan

(1) The caseworker must monitor the family support services case plan and terminate Department involvement in a timely manner. (2) The caseworker is responsible for all of the following actions: (a) Monthly face-to-face contact and communication with each parent, guardian Indian custodian, young adult, or former foster child about progress toward achieving service goals unless an exception to parent, guardian, or Indian custodian contact as described in OAR 413-080-0054(3)(b) is approved. (b) Monthly face-to-face contact with the child required under OAR 413-080-0054. (c) Regular contact with service providers a minimum of once every 90 days, including monitoring the services provided through the family support services case plan (d) Monitoring the visitation and contact plan when the child is in substitute care . (e) Monitoring progress toward achieving service goals. (f) Ensuring completion of the actions and activities that are the responsibility of the Department. (g) Timely response to issues that may impact the safety of the child that become known to the caseworker. (3) The caseworker must document in the Department’s electronic information system: (a) Observations made by the caseworker during each visit, and behaviors, conditions, or circumstances of the family, young adult, or former foster child that support the continuation of the family support services case plan ; and (b) Reports from each service provider on progress of the family, child , young adult or former foster child in meeting the service goals of the family support services case plan .