Missouri Code of State Regulations › Title 13 - DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES › Division 35 - Children's Division › Chapter 60 - Licensing of Foster Family Homes › Section 13 CSR 35-60.010 - Family Homes Offering Foster Care

Current through Register Vol. 49, No. 14, July 15, 2024
PURPOSE: This amendment adds new definitions for
				  foster parents who are obtaining foster family home licensure, and clarifies
				  the process to apply for and review foster family home
				  licensure.
PURPOSE: The principles of this rule are to support
				  the licensing of family homes that are resilient, safe, healthy, and
				  economically secure and where the household members are committed to the
				  parental protecting and nurturing of foster youth placed in the family
				  home.
(1) For the purpose of this regulation, the
				following terms shall be defined as follows:
(A) Foster Parent. A resource provider
				licensed under these regulations who operates a foster family home, or
				relatives of a child in foster care who are licensed to provide relative
				care;
(B) Relative. A relative is a
				person related to another by blood, adoption, or affinity within the third
				degree;
(C) Relative Care. Care
				provided by persons related to the foster youth in any of the following ways by
				blood, marriage, or adoption: grandparent, brother, sister, half-brother,
				half-sister, stepparent, stepbrother, stepsister, uncle, aunt, or first
				cousin;
(D) Traditional Foster
				Family Home. A private residence of one (1) or more family members providing
				twenty-four- (24-) hour care to one (1) or more, but less than six (6) children
				who are unattended by parent or guardian and unrelated to either foster parent
				by blood, marriage, or adoption;
(E) Foster Youth or Foster Child. A person in
				the custody of the Children's Division to a maximum age of twenty-one (21)
				years of age;
(F) Family Support
				Team (FST). The group of individuals assembled to participate in a Family
				Support Team Meeting, a meeting convened by the division or another children's
				services provider on behalf of the family and/or child for the purpose of
				determining service and treatment needs, determining the need for placement,
				developing a plan for reunification or other permanency options, determining
				the appropriate placement of the child, evaluating case progress and
				establishing, and revising the case plan;
(G) Waiver. Authorization by the Children's
				Division to excuse certain relative care providers from specifically identified
				non-safety licensing standards;
(H)
				Foster Family Home Applicant. One (1) or two (2) primary adult individual(s)
				who live in the same household and complete and submit a prescribed application
				to provide foster care services as parent substitutes to foster youth placed in
				the home. When two (2) individuals are applying-
1. Both individuals must be assessed
				separately as if they were applying as a single individual;
2. If either applicant cannot be approved,
				the application shall be denied; and
3. If both applicants are approved, a single
				license certificate shall be granted listing the names of both
				applicants;
(I) Resource
				Provider. Licensed foster parent as required by 13 CSR 35-60; and
(J) Administrative Hold. License status of a
				foster parent that is operating under a provisional status due to licensing
				concerns, an investigation or assessment of abuse or neglect in the home, or
				other reasons as identified in Children's Division policy.