04/07/25
Technical Assistance Bulletin
This judge’s action alert highlights:
– how reasonable efforts findings support children and families in the child welfare system.
– how the Family First Act strengthens judges’ reasonable efforts findings.
– how to use the Family First Act to strengthen reasonable efforts to prevent removal.
– how to use the Family First Act to strengthen reasonable efforts to reunify or achieve permanency.
– how to strengthen Family First Act implementation and reasonable efforts determinations at the community level.