Return or continued placement finding

The court determines whether return is safe or continued out-of-home placement remains necessary.

Replace records and stabilize housing

Use legal aid and disaster resources for titles, IDs, leases, benefits, and contractor disputes.

ICWA serious-emotional-or-physical-damage finding

Qualified expert testimony and evidence satisfy the federal standard for involuntary foster-care placement.

Select least restrictive safe placement

Placement is not merely finding an empty bed; the agency must match legal preferences and the child's individual needs.

Permanency goal finding

The court selects the legally authorized permanency goal based on safety, progress, efforts, placement, and best interest.

Sibling placement/contact consideration

Sibling placement/contact consideration

Administrative challenge to Central Registry placement

Administrative challenge to Central Registry placement

Relative Placement Preference and ICPC

Relative and fictive-kin preference, provisional foster homes, best-interest limits, and interstate placement approval.

Reasonable efforts finding

The court evaluates and states whether DCFS made required reasonable efforts or whether an exception applies.

Child-maltreatment finding review

ICWA serious-emotional-or-physical-damage finding for TPR

Evidence beyond a reasonable doubt, including qualified expert testimony, satisfies the ICWA standard.

Consideration of relatives, fictive kin, and placement stability

Consideration of relatives, fictive kin, and placement stability

Out-of-home placement criteria

Describes initial foster-care placement determinations, emergency placements, and placements outside the origin county.

ICWA involuntary foster-care placement

ICWA involuntary foster-care placement

Placement

Canonical process stage for placement

Placement record

Placement selection, approval, changes, and notices

Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children

Interstate placement framework requiring receiving-state home study and approval before a child is moved across state lines for covered placements.

9 CAR § 40-708 — Relative and fictive-kin placement

DCFS must consider relatives and fictive kin and follow assessment, background, safety, and preference requirements.

Arkansas Relative and Fictive-Kin Placement Preference

Ark. Code Ann. § 9-28-108 gives qualifying relatives and fictive kin preferential consideration when child-protection standards and best interests are satisfied.

HUD Fair Housing / Arkansas Fair Housing resources

Investigate qualifying discrimination in housing transactions and services.

Housing discrimination complaint

Housing Finance, Weatherization, and Homelessness Diversion

ADFA mortgages, down-payment programs, homeowner relief, weatherization, vouchers, shelters, and rapid rehousing.

Eviction Diversion and Housing Courts

HUD-supported prevention, housing-court transfers, volunteer attorneys, negotiated settlements, and downstream economic effects.

Housing Choice Voucher Program

Federally funded long-term rental subsidy administered locally by independent municipal and regional public housing authorities.