Reasonable Efforts
Reasonable efforts is a legal term describing the level of services and assistance that should be offered by a social service or child protection agency to a child and family members during the life of a child welfare case.
National CASA offers the following resources to help child welfare advocates understand reasonable efforts.
Publications - National CASA
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Judges' Page Newsletter (October 2007): Reasonable Efforts in the Dependency Court (654 KB PDF)
Publication provides a series of brief articles on the topic from multiple perspectives: judicial, tribal, developmental, international and that of a foster youth.
Publications - Other Organizations
- Reasonable Efforts Checklist for Dependency Cases Involving Domestic Violence (2.6 MB PDF)
Published by the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges, Family Violence Department,
to help judges reach a determination of whether reasonable efforts were made in domestic violence cases before the children were removed.
- Reasonable Efforts and Court Improvement Video Series
This series of videos, sponsored by the University of Washington School of Law's Court Improvement Training Academy (CITA), highlights factors influencing juvenile dependency courts in Washington State and across the country. Speakers discuss what can be done to improve the current court system as well as goals and guidelines to meet the needs of children and improve parenting skills.
- Webcast: Reasonable Efforts Workshop
Judge Richard FitzGerald presented a two-hour workshop on reasonable efforts August 13, 2008, at Emory University School of Law, focused on the history, definition, and power of the reasonable efforts finding.
Handouts from the workshop and documents referred to during the lecture:
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