Kansas Administrative Regulations › Agency 30 - KANSAS DEPARTMENT FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES › Article 47 - FOSTER CARE LICENSING › Section 30-47-906 - Administration

Current through Register Vol. 43, No. 28, July 11, 2024
(a) Each licensee
			 shall be responsible for the operation of the child-placement agency and shall
			 meet the following requirements:
(1) Establish
			 and maintain a written organizational plan, including an organizational chart,
			 appoint an executive director to oversee the operation of the child-placement
			 agency, and appoint qualified staff;
(2) provide staff, facilities, equipment,
			 supplies, and services to children and families;
(3) adopt written administrative policies and
			 procedures for the delivery of services and for the operation of the
			 child-placement agency, including services to each foster family and adoptive
			 family, client eligibility criteria, fee schedules for each program offered by
			 the child-placement agency, and reimbursement rates for placement
			 families;
(4) ensure that written
			 personnel policies are developed and implemented that specify the necessary
			 qualifications for each position and govern staff member selection, roles and
			 responsibilities, and job duties;
(5) develop and implement written policies
			 and procedures on the confidentiality of information, including confidentiality
			 of child-placement agency records. Nothing in these policies and procedures
			 shall prevent access to information about a child or a family by the child's
			 child-placing agent, the sponsoring child-placement agency, law enforcement,
			 the court, the Kansas department of children and families, or the Kansas
			 department of corrections as allowed by applicable law;
(6) develop and implement written policies
			 and procedures to prevent a conflict of interest or undue influence for any
			 staff member of a child-placement agency, any known relative of a staff member
			 of a child-placement agency, and any governing body member of a child-placement
			 agency, who wants to be or is sponsored by that child-placement agency as a
			 placement resource for a child in need of an out-of-home placement;
(7) develop and implement policies and
			 procedures for addressing grievances concerning the delivery of
			 services;
(8) adopt written
			 policies and procedures for quality assurance;
(9) adopt written policies and procedures for
			 record-keeping and retention of records;
(10) adopt written policies and procedures
			 for transportation services; and
(11) develop and implement policies and
			 procedures on acceptable behavior management and discipline of children by
			 staff members and volunteers of the child-placement agency and families
			 sponsored by the child-placement agency. These policies and procedures shall
			 include the following:
(A) The use of
			 positive methods for behavior management that are appropriate to the age and
			 developmental levels of children and encourage cooperation, self-direction, and
			 independence;
(B) methods of
			 behavior management that are designed to help each child develop inner controls
			 and manage each child's own behavior in a socially acceptable manner;
(C) prohibition of any punishment that is
			 humiliating, frightening, or physically harmful to the child; and
(D) prohibition of corporal
			 punishment.