Action | Adopt new standards for licensed private child-placing agencies. |
Stage | Proposed |
Comment Period | Ended on 4/1/2011 |
26. Foster care placement
Don't we need to include one more condition here similar to (i) but not involving the local board but instead another non-DSS agency rep on the FAPT?
27. Foster care services
See omission above in #26.
28. Foster home
29. Foster parent
30. Independent living arrangement
31. Independent living services
32. In-service training
33. Intercountry placement
34. Interstate compact on the placement of children
35. Licensee
36. Licensing representative
37. Local board
38. Local department
39. Mental abuse
40. Mutual selection
41. Parent
42. Parental placement
43. Permanent entrustment agreement
44. Permanent foster care placement
45. Physical abuse
46. Physical neglect
47. Physical restraint
48. Placing agency
49. Pre-service training
50. Provider
51. Records
Suggestion that “Respite Placement” or “Respite Care” is added to definitions, see notes under short term foster care for details of this recommendation.
52. Resource parent
53. Seclusion
54. Serious incident reports
55. Service plan
56. Sexual abuse
57. Short-term foster care –recommend expanding definition to also allow for successive short term placements of a child (that are less than 30 consecutive days, and may extend more than 30 total days in a calendar year) be considered as one on-going open case as opposed to opening a new case each time the child is placed in a home if such agreement is identified on the placement agreement, so that variances do not need to be obtained. This would assist more families from the community to receive respite services to minimize out of home placements or use of full time foster care, and ease the burden on private providers admission criteria to allow for such services. Suggest offering a respite care definition if short term foster care becomes too complex to define.
58. Special needs
59. State Board
60. Treatment
61. Treatment foster care –This definition is strongly supported. It is important for the work TFC providers offer in defining it’s essence as a community based program. It is, however, at risk of being inaccurate if the current state administration redefines it for the sole purpose of reallocating money in the state budget, for which it may become redefined as a residential service. It is certainly NOT a residential service, and this definition should not be changed for financial reasons. TFC providers need these regulations to be able to last another 30 years, and not be based on changing administrative agendas.
62. Treatment foster parent
63. Treatment team
64. Youth
Scope