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Utah Code § 80-2-803: Division promotion of adoption -- Adoption research and informational pamphlet.

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Where this section sits in the code
  1. Title 80 Utah Juvenile Code
  2. Chapter 80-2 Child Welfare Services
  3. Part 80-2-8 Division Child Placing and Adoption Services

The division shall:

(1) actively promote the adoption of all children in the division's custody who have a final plan for termination of parental rights under Section 80-3-409 or a primary permanency plan of adoption;

(2) develop plans for the effective use of cross-jurisdictional resources to facilitate timely adoptive or permanent placements for waiting children;

(3) obtain information or conduct research regarding prior adoptive families to determine what families may do to be successful with an adoptive child;

(4) make the information or research described in Subsection (3) available to potential adoptive parents;

(5) prepare a pamphlet that explains the information that a child-placing agency is required to provide a potential adoptive parent under Section 81-14-303;

(6) regularly distribute copies of the pamphlet described in Subsection (5) to child-placing agencies; and

(7) respond to an inquiry made as a result of the notice provided by a child-placing agency under Section 81-14-303.

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