22 VAC 40-771-60.  Permanency Providers:  Foster Care.

B.4.b.  The provider shall provide a least two references from persons who have knowledge of the provider’s ability, skill, or experience in the provision of services and who shall not be related to the provider.  The local department may request more than two references.

·        Please change two to three.

B.4.d. The local department will use the interviews, references, and employment history to assess that the:

·        Please add:  (3). provider is capable of handling emergencies with dependability and good judgment, and provider is capable of working in a collaborative way as a member of a team.

·        Please add:  (5). provider demonstrates a capacity to love and nurture a child born to someone else;

·        Please add:  (6). provider can accept the child for his own sake without expecting him to resolve family problems or fulfill family ambitions;

·        Please add:  (7). married foster parents show marital stability and mutual satisfaction with each other.

C.1.i.  Children of the opposite sex shall not share a bed or a bedroom.

·        Please add:  Children of the opposite sex, age five and older, shall not share a bed or a bedroom.  (In the interest of space issues, it is felt that children of the opposite sex under five years of age are safe and appropriate to share a bedroom.)

G.4.  Prior to placement of a child with an unapproved provider, a criminal background check and child abuse and neglect central registry search has been conducted on all adults in the home of  where the child is to be placed pursuant to 63.2-901.1 of the Code of Virginia.  Crimes listed in 63.2-1719 of the Code of Virginia willp reclude placement of the child.

·        Please add:  A home visit will also be conducted prior to the placement of a child with an unapproved provider.