Denny M. v. State, Dept. of Health & Social Services, Office of Children's Services

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• holding that OCS is also entitled to rely on services provided through “the specialized therapeutic courts of the Alaska Court System — wellness courts, mental health courts, and veterans courts”
• noting that it was “clear from the record . . . that [the mother’s] mental health was the major obstacle to improvement in other aspects of her life, and the superior court could reasonably accept OCS’s prioritization of its concerns”
• “OCS is entitled to rely on [services provided by other entities] in its active efforts if in doing so it can avoid duplicating the programs in the parent’s case plan.”
• “[A] child’s need for permanence and stability should not be put on hold indefinitely while the child’s parents seek to rectify the circumstances that cause their children to be in need of aid.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).