A. Prior to a child's reaching seventeen years of age, the department shall meet with the child, the child's attorney and others of the child's choosing, including biological family members, to develop a transition plan. The department shall assist the child in identifying and planning to meet the child's needs after the child's eighteenth birthday, including housing, education, employment or income, health and mental health, local opportunities for mentors and continuing support services.
B. The department shall present the child's proposed transition plan to the court at the first hearing scheduled after the child's seventeenth birthday.
C. The court shall order a transition plan for the child. The transition plan approved by the court shall be reviewed at every subsequent review and permanency hearing.
History: 1978 Comp., § 32A-4-25.2, as enacted by Laws 2009, ch. 239, § 47.
ANNOTATIONSEffective dates. — Laws 2009, ch. 239, § 72 made Laws 2009, ch. 239, § 47 effective July 1, 2009.
Applicability. — Laws 2009, ch. 239, § 71, provided that the provisions of this act apply to all children who, on July 1, 2009, are on release or are otherwise eligible to be placed on release as if the Juvenile Public Safety Advisory Board Act had been in effect at the time they were placed on release or became eligible to be released.