Placement Periods

A Placement Period represents a time span where a Child was placed with a provider. Placement Periods are associated with a Placement Provider, which might be a private home, a hospital or a group care facility, among others. Placement Periods can be normal or respite. Respite periods have additional fields identifying the receiving provider.

• id* (string) - The primary key for the record.
• type* (string) - The JSON:API type specifier.
• attributes* (object) - Primary record attributes.

  • created-at* (string) - Date and time that the Placement Period was created in Binti.

  • days-of-notice* (number) - The number of days of notice given.

  • updated-at* (string) - Date and time that the Placement Period was last updated.

  • placement-type* (string) - The type of accomodation in which the Child was placed.

    Allowed values

    • adoption_placement
    • placed_with_family
    • placed_with_group_home
    • emergency_placement
    • hospitalization
    • hotel
    • silp
    • juvenile_detention_center
    • office
    • placed_with_ooc_family
    • icpc
    • placed_with_private_agency
    • provider_not_in_binti
    • receiving_center
    • went_with_relatives
    • shelter
    • transitional_housing_program_and_foster_care
    • tribal_home
    • other

  • start-date* (string) - The date when the accomodation begins.

  • end-date* (string) - The date when the accomodation ends.

  • child-id* (number) - The ID of the Child under placement.

  • agency-placement-id* (number) - The ID of the Agency Placement for the Placement Period.

  • placement-type-description* (string) - A description of the placement type.

  • placement-ended-reason* (string) - The reason for the placement to be terminated. (Note: Legacy values will be mapped to active reasons.)

    Allowed values

    • awol
    • emancipation
    • silp
    • went_back_to_family
    • 14_day_notice
    • 7_day_notice
    • adoption_placement
    • agency_removal
    • change_of_agency
    • death
    • emergency_removal
    • family_gave_notice
    • guardianship
    • hospitalization
    • other
    • respite_care
    • step_down
    • subdized_guardianship
    • non_exit_other
    • behavioral_issues
    • lack_of_services
    • child_incarcerated
    • cps_investigation_or_complaint
    • death_of_care_provider
    • found_closer_placement
    • found_placement_with_relatives
    • found_placement_with_siblings
    • found_pre_adoptive_placement
    • moved_to_higher_level_of_care
    • moved_to_lower_level_of_care
    • problem_with_renewal_or_license
    • adoption_finalized
    • non_subsidized_guardianship
    • subsidized_guardianship
    • death_of_child
    • exit_other
    • hospitalization_exit

  • placement-ended-reason-explanation* (string) - Details about why the placement ended.

  • placement-ended-requester* (string) - Who requested the placement change.

    Allowed values

    • caregiver
    • child
    • department_or_agency

  • external-identifier* (string) - External systems indentifier for individual Placement Period. Must be unique for agency.

  • updated-by* (number) - The ID of the user who last updated the Placement Period.

  • pre-adoption* (boolean) - Whether this placement is pre-adoptive or not. Defaults to false.

  • respite* (boolean) - Whether this placement is respite or not.

  • respite-reason-requested* (string) - The listed reason the respite was requested, from the available options.

    Allowed values

    • facility_issue
    • medical
    • break
    • pre_adoption_visitation
    • business
    • personal
    • vacation
    • other

  • respite-additional-information* (string) - Additional freeform information regarding the respite period.

  • should-pay-respite-provider* (boolean) - Whether the respite provider should receive payment or not.

  • should-pay-standard-provider* (boolean) - Whether the standard (non-respite) provider should receive payment or not.

  • valid-respite-without-respite-receiver* (boolean) - Indicates that a respite period intentionally has no corresponding respite-receiving placement. This will be the case when an agency places a respite for a child whose regular placement is outside of that agency. In the future, a respite period will be considered invalid if it does not have a corresponding receiving placement AND this boolean is set to false. Must be false if Placement Period is not respite. Defaults to false.

• relationships (object) - Related objects. For each relationship, you can find detailed information about the object by issuing another API call to look it up by ID, or for certain endpoints, you will find details in the "included" section.
  • respite-receiver (object) - A relationship with a single entry.
    • data* (object) - A reference to the receiving provider (Agency Placement) for a respite period.

      • id* (string) - The ID of the other object.

      • type* (string) - Always agency-placements

        Allowed values

        • agency-placements