Agency 622-05-50-05

(Revised 2/1/2011 ML #3258)

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  1. To provide supervision to the foster parents and the child throughout placement and foster care.
  2. To coordinate efforts necessary to meet the child’s needs in terms of medical costs, food, shelter, and other expenses.
  3. To assist the parents with development of permanent plans for their child, including the provision of or arranging for needed services for the family.
  4. To report and make recommendations to the court whenever necessary or requested.
  5. To notify the parents/guardian, in writing, if a change in placement is made.
  6. To keep the parents/guardian, foster parents, and child (where appropriate) involved in any plans that are developed concerning all aspects of the child’s life and planning for permanency.
  7. To assist the foster parents, parents/guardian, and child to be able to attend Foster Care Child & Family Team meetings and to inform them when these hearings are going to be held. (See “Notice and Right to be Heard.”)
  8. To assist the parents/guardian in arranging for visitation privileges with their child.
  9. To have direct contact, as needed, with the foster family and child.
  10. To have ongoing, direct contacts with the parents/guardians regarding placement issues.
  11. To have the right to remove the child at any time the agency deems necessary and within a reasonable time after foster parent request removal.
  12. To inform the foster parents of any problems known to the agency that the child is experiencing at the time of placement or which arise during foster care.
  13. To ensure that the child’s religious needs are met including allowing the child to attend the church of their or the parents/guardians choice if available within the community in which the foster family lives.
  14. To identify and notify all parents, grandparents, and any other adult relative suggested by the parents and grandparents, subject to exceptions due to family or domestic violence, within 30 days of the child’s removal. The relatives must also be advised of all available options to become a placement resource for the child. (See 624-05, “Permanency Planning “for notice requirements.)
  15. To provide foster parents with foster youth's health and education records upon placement, or as soon as possible.
  16. See the 624-05, “Permanency Planning” manual chapter.