As in effect on June 1, 2008
A. The Division establishes by the authority of Section 62A-4a-120 a rule to define the Division's procedures to accommodate the moral beliefs, religious beliefs, and culture of the children and families it serves. The Division incorporates by reference the following Federal statutes: 42 U.S.C. 1996b; 25 U.S.C. 1901-63; 42 U.S.C. 1305; 42 U.S.C. 2000bb1-4.
A. Accommodate means to adapt, adjust, or make provision to support.
B. Child and Family Plan means the collective intentions of the Child and Family Team documenting specific goals, roles, strategies, resources, and schedules for coordinated provision of assistance, supports, supervision, and services for the child, caregiver, and parents or guardians.
C. Child and Family Team means a group that may consist of the child, the child's family, the Division caseworker, the out-of-home provider, relatives, representatives of the family's moral beliefs, religious beliefs, and culture, representatives from education, health care, and law enforcement, the guardian ad litem, the parents' attorney, the attorney general, and other supportive individuals as designated by the family.
D. Culture means the totality of socially transmitted behavior patterns characteristic of a family and includes moral beliefs and religious beliefs.
E. Religious beliefs means faith or conviction in a system of principles or worship relating to the sacred and uniting its adherents in a community.
A. The Division recognizes that children and families have the right to be understood within the context of their family's moral beliefs, religious beliefs, and culture.
B. When intervening with a family, Division workers shall ask the family to identify aspects of the family's moral beliefs, religious beliefs, and culture that are relevant to the care and placement of the child.
C. The Division shall convene a Child and Family Team when engaging children and families.
1. The Child and Family Team shall discuss with the child and family any aspects of their moral beliefs, religious beliefs, and culture that they wish to have accommodated.
2. The Child and Family Plan shall document the moral beliefs, religious beliefs, and culture of the child and family and the accommodations requested by the child and family. It shall document the method the Division will employ to make the accommodation or the reasons that accommodation is not reasonable or proper.
3. The decisions of the Child and Family Team related to accommodations of moral beliefs, religious beliefs, and culture shall be documented in the Child and Family Plan. Any accommodation that cannot be provided shall be explained to the child and family and noted in the Child and Family Plan.
4. When the Division is not able to accommodate exactly some aspect of the family's moral beliefs, religious beliefs, or culture, the Child and Family Team may explore the best way to accommodate the moral beliefs, religious beliefs, or culture of the child and family.
5. The accommodations in the Child and Family Plan shall be periodically reviewed with the parents or caregivers, along with all other requirements, to assure that the moral beliefs, religious beliefs, and culture of the child and family are met according to the requirements of the Child and Family Plan.
D. The planning and implementation of all other activities provided by the Division that do not require a Child and Family Team shall identify in the Child and Family Plan aspects of the family's moral beliefs, religious beliefs, and culture that are relevant to the service. Documentation shall identify any requested accommodation and the method the Division employs to make accommodation for the child and family or the reasons accommodation is not reasonable or appropriate.
child welfare
June 1, 2006
62A-4a-105; 62A-4a-106; 62A-4a-120
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