If it is determined at the 9-month family meeting that the parents have failed to make reasonable progress in the service plan, the caseworker must hold a permanency staffing (formerly called the legal screening) at the 10th month of case opening to discuss implementing the alternative permanency plan. Participants in the permanency staffing include the caseworker, supervisor, regional legal staff and adoption specialist or coordinator,and possibly a resource specialists or clinical coordinator. This team will review any assessments of parents and child, the evaluated service plans, the child's needs for permanency (particularly in light of the child's sense of time), reasonable efforts on the part of DCFS and whether legal grounds exist for an alternative permanency plan. The alternative permanency goal will be recommended. If a permanency placement is still needed for the child, the caseworker will begin efforts to locate such a placement, using the guidelines regarding placement selection described in Chapter 6, Section 6.5. The staffing may occur at any time in a case when it is clear that reunification is unlikely or not in the child's best interests. The caseworker need not wait until the ninth month after case opening to hold the staffing.