Cooperation & Collaboration 622-05-40-05

(Revised 6/1/22 ML #3677)

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Foster care providers work in collaboration with a variety of parties, including the licensing agency, child’s custodial case manager, child’s family, medical professionals, therapist, schools, court system, law enforcement, community service providers, and many more. It is important that foster care providers follow these standards set forth in NDAC 75-03-14-05:

 

  1. The foster care providers shall allow public officials to enter the family home, at any reasonable time, as determined necessary by the public official to ensure safety. For the purposes of this subsection, “any reasonable time” means a time mutually convenient to the foster care providers and the public official.
  2. The foster care providers shall allow entry to the home, at any reasonable time, personnel of the child’s custodial agency. For the purposes of this subsection, “any reasonable time” means a time mutually convenient to the foster care providers and the custodial agency’s personnel and any time the child’s case manager determines that a child in foster care's health, safety, or welfare requires the admittance.
  3. The foster care providers shall cooperate with the custodial agency in that agency’s efforts to develop plans for the child, implement those plans, and meet the needs of the child and the child’s family.
  4. The foster care providers shall cooperate with the custodial agency in developing plans for the child to visit with parents or guardian. If the foster care providers agree, and it is appropriate, visits may take place in the foster care providers home. Visits between the child in foster care and parents or guardian must be arranged within a plan approved by the agency, child in foster care where appropriate, foster care providers, and the child in foster care's parents or guardian. If visits are agreed upon at the foster care providers home, the foster care providers do not have to allow entry to any individual who has been using alcohol, drugs, or any other intoxicating substance, or who attempts a visit in a manner that is not in accordance with the approved visitation plan.
  5. The foster care providers may not accept other children, (family, friend, foreign exchange students etc.) without the prior approval of the licensing specialist. All changes in the number of household member/s, children and adults living in the home must be immediately reported to the licensing specialist.
  6. Foster care providers must agree to immediately report to the agency any of the child’s illnesses or injuries, change of address, disappearance, or behavior or mental concerns the child may be presenting in the home, school, or community.