Sec. 07.02.25.01. Purpose

A. The regulations established in this chapter are the requirements for approval of resource homes by local departments of social services. Failure to meet any of these requirements may be grounds for denial, suspension, or revocation of resource home approval.

B. The primary purposes of these regulations are to:

(1) Protect children from the special risk associated with living outside their own homes by maintaining high quality resource homes that will provide supportive, short-term care for the children;

(2) Provide support and guidance to the resource parents for the purpose of providing a caring, nurturing, and protective environment for foster children in a family setting;

(3) Provide a framework for resource parents to represent the community as professional team members to promote the safety, permanency, and well-being of the foster child; and

(4) Provide a framework for resource parents to co-parent the foster child, mentor the birth family, and participate as members of the professional team in the permanency planning process.