Parent Responsibilities - When the Court becomes involved in a DCS Case

During Department of Child Safety involvement, parents are expected to:

1. Work with DCS to solve family problems.
2. Attend and participate in case staffing's, FCRB reviews and court hearings.
3. Provide DCS with information about the children.
4. Keep DCS informed about changes such as a new address, telephone number, job, income, marriage, or other living changes.
5. Follow court orders.
6. Visit children regularly when they are in out-of-home placements.
7. Contribute to the cost of children's out-of-home care.
8. Keep appointments made with DCS, attorneys, therapists and others who are working with the family.
9. Immediately provide DCS the names, type of relationship and all information you have to locate persons related to or who have a significant relationship with your child. This includes the child's grandparents, great-grandparents, brothers or sisters of whole or half-blood, aunts, uncles and first cousins.
10. Tell DCS if you do not have enough information to locate a relative or person who has a significant relationship with the child.
11. If you do not have all of this information, immediately provide the information to DCS when you get the information.
12. Be ready to provide this information to the Juvenile Court at the Preliminary Protective Hearing.