# Strategy Guide — Scenario 52: The Notice on the Fridge

**The win, named exactly as in the scenario data: "Ending — A Family Address, Not a Facility."**

The best outcome: Sanaa moves to her uncle Hakim's home on August 30th — three days inside the foster family's September 2nd notice deadline — with the agency directed to correct its family-finding entry on the record.

**Graph-walked winning route (verified programmatically against `scenario-52.json`):**

`start → by_name → sanaa_visit → her_handwriting → march_entry → the_letter52 → agency_pushback → hakim_list → group_home_call → hakim_house → ashford_call → kellerman_ask → hakim_fingerprints → hakim_interview → records52 → sanaa_school → kellerman_dinner → counsel52 → packet52 → signature_watch → transport_plan → night_before52 → review52 → in_chambers → outcome52 → end_familyaddress`

Final cash on the walked route: $151 of $175. The outcome gate requires `kinWritten`, `packetBuilt`, and `hakimHeard`.

**The dates, audited:** the Kellermans' thirty-day notice is given **Monday, August 3, 2026**; the placement end date is **Wednesday, September 2, 2026** (August 3 + 30 days); the review is **Thursday, August 27, 2026** — six days of margin, which the scenario treats as the scarce resource it is.

**Verified law used:** the foster parents' and the potential kinship care resource's hearing rights (42 Pa.C.S. § 6336.1, as amended by Act 48 of 2023; "potential kinship care resource" defined at § 6302) — the Kellermans' bridge offer and Hakim's qualifications are both heard under it; appointed counsel (42 Pa.C.S. § 6337); the record request (55 Pa. Code § 3130.44(d)), which produces the intake form with the *correct* number beside the March entry with the transposed digits.

**Traps traced to endings:**

- **Accepting "contacted":** the file's March entry ("left voicemail, no response") was one wrong digit dialed once, against a correct number already in the agency's own intake form. The winning route asks the disaggregating question — *what kin has been contacted, by name?* — and puts the teenager's own knowledge into the record in her own handwriting.
- **"Ending — Eleven Days Between (partial)":** everything done well, one queue too slow — the supervisor's signature lands September 4th, the bridge ends with the house closing, and Sanaa spends eleven days in the group placement. The debrief's lesson is aimed at the *start* of placements: the record request belongs at the beginning, when a wrong March entry can still be corrected cheaply — not at the emergency.
- **"Ending — The Default Plan":** kin never reached; "no available kinship resource" enters the file and begins acquiring truth by repetition. The scenario's reason to exist: default plans are what happen to unexamined files, and teenagers absorb them.

**What no strategy controls:** Hakim himself — a willing uncle with a clear record and a spare room is a family's luck, not a strategy output. The strategy's promise is narrower and complete: if the Hakim exists, he will be found in time, dialed correctly, studied at deadline speed, and heard.