Action | Adopt new standards for licensed private child-placing agencies. |
Stage | Proposed |
Comment Period | Ended on 4/1/2011 |
Comments from Lisa Reid with Intercept Youth Services, Inc. are in bold and underlined
Part I
Definitions 22VAC40-131-10
1. Adoptive home
2. Adoptive parent
3. Adoptive placement
4. Adult
5. Annual
Thanks for the extra month. Will help with Medicaid coverage.
6. Applicant
7. Background checks
8. Behavior support
9. Birth parent
10. Caretaker
OK as long as interpretation of IV. means only those adults "having the responsibility of providing care ...". Otherwise might have situation where granddad with advanced Alzheimer's is considered a caretaker
11. Career and technical education
Not sure how this term is used in the Standards. Doesn't appear again.
12. Case Management
13. Casework
14. Casework staff
15. Child
16. Child-placing activities
This seems an unusually broad definition considering the itemizations. We could have a situation where a child is in family counseling around the general topic of adoption and that counselor should have a CPA license. Or an Intensive In-home provider is doing work including casework with a child in regular foster care and should have a CPA license. Suggest that the very first sentence of the definition is sufficient here because it limits the definition to those involved in child placing not the broader realm of child services.
17. Child-placing agency
18. Child's family
19. Commissioner
20. Complaint
21. Corporal punishment
22. Department
23. Dual approval process
24. Emergency placement
25. Employee, staff or staff person