Pa v. Dept. of Health & Rehabilitative Services

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• disapproving the department's delegation of its duty to provide services to another agency and holding that termination is not proper if the parent's ability to comply was affected by the department's failure to provide reasonable assistance
• reversing termination of parental rights and directing the trial court on remand to consider less restrictive alternatives to termination, including a new case plan that would meet statutory requirements and address concerns identified at a prior hearing
• finding termination of mother's parental rights would be improper if her ability to comply with case plan was affected by Department's failure to provide reasonable assistance by instead deferring its duty to the employee of a mental health center

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).