Active efforts means affirmative, active, thorough, and timely efforts intended primarily to maintain or reunite an Indian child with the child's family. Active efforts are required if the federal Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978 [25 U.S.C. 1901 through 1963] applies or may apply, including during the verification process. If an agency is involved in the child-custody proceeding, active efforts must involve assisting the parent or parents or Indian custodian through the steps of a case plan and with accessing or developing the resources necessary to satisfy the case plan. To the maximum extent possible, active efforts should be provided in a manner consistent with the prevailing social and cultural conditions and way of life of the Indian child's tribe and should be conducted in partnership with the Indian child and the Indian child's parents, extended family members, Indian custodians, and tribe. Active efforts are to be tailored to the facts and circumstances of the case. The term includes:
Active efforts means the following:
Active efforts means actions to provide remedial services and rehabilitative programs designed to prevent the breakup of the Indian family and to reunify the child with the Indian family. Active efforts require more than a referral to a service without actively engaging the Indian child and family. Active efforts include reasonable efforts as required by title IV-E of the social security act, 42 USC 670 to 679c, and also include doing or addressing all of the following:
Examples of Active efforts in a sentence
Active efforts to collect delinquent accounts resulting from any unpaid premiums by members.
Active efforts shall utilize the available resources of the Indian child’s extended family, tribe, tribal and other Indian social service agencies, and individual Indian caregivers.
C.8 Active efforts in emergency situationsGuidelines:We recommend that State agencies work with Tribes, parents, and other parties as soon as possible, even in an emergency situation, to begin providing active efforts to reunite the family.
Active efforts to encourage eligible households to apply for free or reduced lunch may be used to prevent meal charges.
It may be appropriate, for example, to assist in obtaining Tribal citizenship where it is apparent that the child or its biological parent would become enrolled in the Tribe during the course of the proceedings, thereby aiding in ICWA’s efficient administration.E.6 Documenting active effortsRegulation: § 23.120 How does the State court ensure that active efforts have been made?…(b) Active efforts must be documented in detail in the record.
More Definitions of Active efforts
Active efforts means affirmative, active, thorough, and timely efforts meeting the requirements
Active efforts means affirmative, active, thorough, and timely efforts intended primarily to maintain or reunite an Indian child with his or her family. 25 C.F.R.
Active efforts means affirmative, active, proactive, thorough, and timely efforts intended primarily to maintain or reunite an Indian child with their family. Active efforts must involve assisting the parent or parents or Indian custodian through the steps of a case plan and with accessing or developing the resources necessary to satisfy the case plan.
Active efforts means a rigorous and concerted level of case work that uses the prevailing social and cultural values, conditions and way of life of the Indian child’s tribe to preserve the child’s family and to prevent placement of an Indian child and, if placement occurs, to return the child to the child’s family at the earliest time possible. “Active efforts” sets a higher standard than “reasonable efforts” to preserve the family, to prevent the break-up of the family, and to reunify the family, as defined by Minnesota law. See Minn. Stat. § 260.012(c) (2006). Active efforts require acknowledging traditional helping and healing systems of an Indian child’s Tribe and using these systems as the core to help and to heal the Indian child and family. See 25 U.S.C. § 1912(d); Bureau of Indian Affairs Guidelines, 44 Fed. Reg. 67,584, 67,595 at D.2 (Nov. 26, 1979). Before the local social service agency makes a decision that will affect a child’s well-being, or when an out of home placement is contemplated, the local social service agency must seek guidance from the Indian child’s Tribe on how that family is structured, how the family can seek help, what family and Tribal resources are available and what barriers the family faces at that time that could threaten its preservation. The local social service agency should work with the child’s Tribe and family to develop an alternative plan to placement. Active efforts are required throughout the local social service agency’s involvement with the family. The parties to this Agreement identify the following as potential active efforts:
Active efforts means actions to provide remedial services and rehabilitative programs designed to prevent the breakup of the family and to reunify the child with the family. Active efforts require more than a mere referral to a service; rather, these efforts require actively
Active efforts means affirmative, active, thorough, and timely efforts intended primarily to maintain or reunite an Indian child with his or her family. If an agency is involved in an Indian child custody proceeding, active efforts shall involve assisting the parent, parents, or Indian custodian through the steps of a case plan and with accessing or developing the resources necessary to satisfy the case plan. To the maximum extent possible, active efforts shall be provided in a manner consistent with the prevailing social and cultural conditions and way of life of the Indian child’s tribe and shall be conducted in partnership with the Indian child and the Indian child’s parents, extended family members, Indian custodians, and tribe. Active efforts shall be tailored to the facts and circumstances of the case and may include, but are not limited to, any of the following:
Active efforts means active and thorough efforts by the State and Tribe social services agencies to fulfill its obligations of ICWA and this Agreement and to keep the child in the home as a first priority.