CPS is required to follow court orders, as well as the Fourth Amendment requirements about entry into the home and transportation, when CPS visits the home or has any contact with a child who has returned home.

If all children in the family whose goal is reunification have returned, the caseworker completes the following within 30 days after the last child’s return:

 •  The Family Strengths and Needs Assessment (FSNA).

•  The family reunification Family Plan of Service (FPOS).

The caseworker documents reunification services in the Family Reunification (FRE) stage in IMPACT. The only exception is when at least one child returns home and at least one child remains in substitute care. In that situation, the caseworker documents contacts and services in the Family Substitute Care (FSU) stage. IMPACT opens the FRE stage when all children have returned home.

See 1411 Types of Cases and Stages of Service.