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What Is Informal FINS

The goal of Informal FINS (Families in Need of Services) is to collaborate with children, families, schools, officials, other community resources, and the courts as needed to reduce disruptive behavior in the home. This helps keep families intact and ensures that both the child and family remain productive in all areas of life.

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Step 1: Complete the FINS Referral Screening Form

The first step in the referral process for walk-ins and community members is to complete the FINS Referral Screening Form below. Once you complete this step, your complaint will be reviewed to determine whether it meets the criteria for acceptance.

Step 2: Wait for Acceptance

If your referral is accepted, we’ll inform you of the next steps. If it is not accepted, we’ll update you with the reasoning.

Step 3: Complete the Full Intake Application

Once your screening referral has been accepted, you can move to the next step. Complete the full intake application. After completing the application, our intake manager or a member of our staff will be in touch with you to schedule an intake interview appointment.

Community Forms

Step 1: Fill Out Referral Form

Step 3: Application (Your Referral Has Been Accepted)

Your Referral Has Been Accepted!

Great news—your screening referral has been accepted, and you can now move to the next step. The next step is to complete the full intake application. Once completed, our intake manager or a member of our staff will be in touch with you to schedule an intake interview appointment.

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Intake manager or member of staff will be in touch with you to schedule intake interview appt.

How To Upload Forms

Click on the form(s) you need to fill out. Fill them out then save them as the Youth's name to your computer, tablet or phone files. Once you are done filling out the forms and saving them, click +Upload File button below to find your file(s) and upload them to us. In the event of scheduled website maintenance, you can email the document(s) to finsprocessing@nola.gov

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NOTE: When filling out the form, be sure to click the icon in the top right corner (as shown in the picture) to help avoid any confusion.

Informal FINS Referral Form

The informal FINS process attempts to define self-destructive behaviors by a child and conduct by other family members which contribute to the child's harm, and which warrant court intervention in the family's life so that appropriate services to remedy the family's dysfunction can be identified. Children and families can be referred to FINS for any of the following behaviors:


1) Child is truant or has willfully and repeatedly violated lawful school rules. "Truant" means the repeated or habitual unauthorized absence or tardiness of a child from school.


2) Child is ungovernable. "Ungovernable" means the child's habitual disregard of the lawful and reasonable demands of his caretakers and that the child is beyond their control.


3) Child is a runaway. "Runaway" means the continued absence of the child from the home of his caretaker without the caretaker's consent.


4) Child repeatedly possessed or consumed intoxicating beverages, or

has misrepresented or deceived his age for the purpose of purchasing

or receiving such beverages from any person, or has repeatedly

loitered around any place where such beverages are the principal

commodities sold or handled.


5) Child committed an offense applicable only to children.


6) Child under 10 years of age committed any act which if committed by

an adult, would be a crime under any federal, state, or local law.


7) Caretaker has caused, encouraged, or contributed to the child's behavior.


8) After notice, caretaker willfully failed to attend a meeting with child's teacher, school principal, or other appropriate school employee to discuss child's truancy, the child's repeated violation of school rules, or other serious educational problems of the child.


9) Child found incompetent to proceed with a delinquency matter.


10) Child found to have engaged in cyberbullying.


11) Repealed by Acts 2012, No. 730, §2

INFORMAL FINS REFERRAL FORM

Date of Birth
Month
Day
Year
Preferred Method of Contact
Phone
Email
Text

Please select the applicable grounds for referral under Article 730 (Check all that apply):

Multi choice

10 Grounds

Informal FINS At A Glance

Attempts to Define Self-Destructive Behaviors

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