What Are Reasonable Efforts

Statute: § 419B.340

Preventive and reunification services

For an Indian child: active efforts to provide remedial services and rehabilitative programs designed to prevent the breakup of the Indian family

When Reasonable Efforts Are Required

Statute: § 419B.340

To prevent or eliminate the need for removal of the ward from the home

To make it possible for the ward to safely return home

When Reasonable Efforts Are NOT Required

Statute: § 419B.340

If one of the following circumstances exist:

Aggravated circumstances, including the parent
has caused by abuse or neglect the death or
serious physical injury of any child; has
subjected any child to rape, sodomy, sexual
abuse, starvation, or torture; has abandoned the
child; or has unlawfully caused the death of the
other parent of the child

The parent has been convicted of murder or
voluntary manslaughter of another child or the
attempt to commit such crime; or felony assault
of the child or another child that results in
serious physical injury

Parental rights to another child have been
terminated involuntarily