Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 67 - SOCIAL SERVICES › Part V - Child Welfare › Subpart 6 - Adoptions › Chapter 45 - Adoption Registries › Section V-4501 - Louisiana Adoption Resource Exchange (LARE)

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 6, June 20, 2024
A. Within 90 days after termination of all
				  parental rights or abandonment, or voluntary surrender to a child-caring
				  agency, any child whose parents' rights have been so terminated and who has not
				  been placed either in a private family home for the specific purpose of
				  effecting an adoption or with a relative who expresses an intent to care for
				  the child until majority, shall be registered with the Louisiana Adoption
				  Resource Exchange (LARE). Upon request, the Department of Health and Human
				  Resources, Office of Human Development, shall provide the forms necessary to
				  effect said registration to all private child-caring agencies. Private
				  child-caring agencies will be requested to include a recent 3" x 5" black and
				  white photograph of each child registered.
B. The Department of Health and Human
				  Resources, Office of Human Development, will maintain a list of the children
				  registered with the Louisiana Adoption Resource Exchange. The listing will be
				  updated no less often than quarterly and will be made available to all licensed
				  child placement agencies in Louisiana. The listing will include a photograph of
				  each child, but will not include the surname of the child or otherwise reveal
				  the identities of the blood parents of the child.
C. As an effort to effect permanent
				  placements by matching potential adoptive parents with available children, the
				  Department of Health and Human Resources, Office of Human Development, may,
				  under established guidelines, utilize media presentations for those children
				  determined to be difficult to place. Subject to confidentiality requirements
				  and the guidelines listed below, such presentations may include newspaper,
				  radio, and television features depicting particular children, describing the
				  adoption process, and explaining how persons interested in adoption may obtain
				  information.
D. Guidelines for
				  Media Recruitment
1. The Department of Health
				  and Human Resources, Office of Human Development, may utilize media
				  presentations involving children who are available for adoption to recruit
				  homes for specific children and to recruit homes for general categories of
				  children who are difficult to place. The children involved are those whose
				  parents are dead, who were abandoned by their parents or in cases where
				  parental rights have been terminated according to state laws. All children will
				  be available for adoption or for a subsidized adoption program. The types of
				  children considered by the agency as "hard to place" in adoptive homes include:
a. sibling groups;
b. black males (not infants);
c. adolescents (over age 10) of any race or
				  sex;
d. children with handicapping
				  (mental or physical) conditions. Most of these children have unique situations
				  or have other extraordinary circumstances which led to their placement in this
				  category.