To seek permanent managing conservatorship and permanency care assistance for a child’s relative or fictive kin caregiver, a caseworker must establish (with approval from his or her supervisor and program director) that:
• family reunification and adoption are not appropriate permanency options; and
• transferring permanent managing conservatorship to a relative with the support of permanency care assistance is in the child’s best interest.
The caseworker must document this determination in the child’s plan of service.
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