North Carolina § 131D-10 - 9B. Permanency Innovation Initiative Fund.

§ 131D-10. 9B. Permanency Innovation Initiative Fund.

There is created the Permanency Innovation Initiative Fund that will support a demonstration project with services provided by Children's Home Society of North Carolina to (i) improve permanency outcomes for children living in foster care through reunification with parents, providing placement or guardianship with other relatives, or adoption, (ii) improve engagement with biological relatives of children in or at risk of entering foster care, and (iii) reduce costs associated with maintaining children in foster care. In implementing these goals, the Permanency Innovation Initiative Fund shall support the following strategies: Repealed by Session Laws 2018-68, s. 7.1, effective October 1, 2018. Child Focused Recruitment Services, which is a program that follows the Wendy's Wonderful Kids Model as developed by The Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption and works with children in public foster care to develop and execute adoption recruitment plans tailored to the needs of the individual child. These services include enhanced family engagement practices to discover and engage relatives of children living in public foster care. Permanency Training Services, which are services delivered by Children's Home Society of North Carolina to support county departments of social services to implement the permanency strategies under subdivision (2) of this subsection, advance permanency-focused services for children in the legal custody of county departments of social services, and provide training and support services to caregivers and family members who are supporting the permanency goal of children in the legal custody of county departments of social services. This program shall not constitute an entitlement and is subject to the availability of funds. The Social Services Commission shall adopt rules to implement the provisions of this section. History (2013-360, s. 12C.10(e); 2018-68, s. 7.1; 2020-78, s. 4G.1.) Editor's Note. - Session Laws 2020-78, s. 22.1, provides: "Except for statutory changes or other provisions that clearly indicate an intention to have effects beyond the 2019-2021 fiscal biennium, the textual provisions of this act apply only to the 2019-2021 fiscal biennium." Session Laws 2020-78, s. 22.3, is a severability clause. Effect of Amendments. - Session Laws 2018-68, s. 7.1, effective October 1, 2018, deleted subdivision (a)(1); in subdivision (a)(2), substituted "Focused" for "Specific Adoption", and added the last sentence; and in subdivision (a)(3), substituted "enhance" for "assess" and "subdivision (2)" for "subdivisions (1) and (2)." Session Laws 2020-78, s. 4G.1, effective July 1, 2020, rewrote subdivision (a)(3).