Oregon Administrative Rules › Chapter 419 - OFFICE OF TRAINING, INVESTIGATIONS AND SAFETY › Division 440 - FOSTER CARE AGENCIES › Section 419-440-0050 - Foster Care Agencies: Standards for the Proctor Foster Home Environment

Current through Register Vol. 63, No. 7, July 1, 2024
A
foster care agency
must ensure a
proctor foster home
meets all of requirement in this rule.
				This must be documented and kept in the file of the
proctor foster
				home
.
(1) General Conditions.
(a) The home must be the primary residence of
			 the applicant or
approved proctor foster parent
and the
			 residence where the
child in care
will reside.
(b) The home must have adequate space,
			 including space for safe and appropriate sleeping arrangements, for each
child in care
.
(A) The
foster care agency
must consider the age, gender, gender
			 expression, special needs, behavior, and history of abuse or neglect of the
child in care
in determining appropriate sleeping
			 arrangements.
(B) Children in care
			 over age 18 years of age or older must be housed in separate bedrooms from
			 children in care under 18 years of age, unless:
(i) A parent and child, one or both of whom
			 is a
child in care
, share a bedroom; or
(ii) The
foster care agency
has obtained written approval from the parent or legal guardian and the
			 Department licensing coordinator that two children in care, one over 18 and one
			 under 18 years of age, may share a bedroom.
(C) Each
child in care
must
			 have their own bed and may not share a bed with an unrelated person.
(D) The foster care agency must prohibit
			 co-sleeping or bed-sharing when the child in care is an infant.
(c) The home may not use
			 "electronic monitoring" in bedrooms or bathrooms. For purposes of this rule,
			 "electronic monitoring" means the use of video monitoring or listening devices
			 to monitor or record the behavior of a
child in care
.
Children in care
and their parent or legal guardian must be
			 notified of any electronic monitoring that occurs in the home. "Electronic
			 monitoring" does not include:
(A) Door
			 monitors;
(B) Window
			 alarms;
(C) Motion
			 detectors;
(D) Audio or video baby
			 monitors used for a child five years of age and under; or
(E) Monitors approved by a medical provider
			 for medical purposes.
(d) If a child or young adult in the care or
			 custody of the Department will be placed in the
proctor foster
			 home
, the home must post and comply with the Foster Children's Bill of
			 Rights as required by OAR 413-010-0170  to 413-010-0185.
(e) The applicant or
approved proctor
			 foster parent
must have access to a working telephone to make and
			 receive phone calls.
(f) The
			 applicant or
approved proctor foster parent
must consider the
			 age, special needs, and capabilities of the children in care, and have
			 necessary safeguards to assure that:
(A)
			 Swimming pools, hot tubs, wading pools, ponds, and other water hazards are
			 inaccessible to a
child in care
unless responsibly supervised,
			 and any safeguards comply with state and local ordinances;
(B) Outdoor tools and equipment, machinery,
			 chemicals, flammables, and combustibles are stored in a safe manner;
(C) Animals are safe and appropriate for and
			 are properly cared for and kept in compliance with local ordinances;
(D) Access of a
child in
			 care
to potentially dangerous animals is restricted; and
(E) Hunting and sporting equipment, such as
			 knives, spears, arrows, hunting sling shots, bows, and martial art weapons are
			 stored in a safe and secure manner and inaccessible to a
child in
			 care
.
(g) The
			 applicant or
approved proctor foster parent
must receive
			 authorization from the
foster care agency
and the parent or
			 guardian prior to the beginning of hunting or target practice by the
child in care
.