Personal Rights
This is the age at which foster children’s rights include reviewing their own care plan and receiving information regarding out-of-home placement and case plan, including being told of changes to the plan.
What is 12?
This type of drill is required every 6 months in a resource family home, and with every new placement.
What is fire?
What is travel outside of Mendocino County for more than 1 day?
What is R-Rated?
120° is the maximum water temperature allowed for this in foster home.
What is water?
This person schedules a foster child’s medical, dental or other appointments unless otherwise pre-determined.
Who is the Tapestry Social Worker?
Personal rights of a foster children include being free from this type of search or personal belongings
What is unreasonable?
In handling emergencies, if your foster child is injured and needs an ambulance, this is the first action a resource parent should take.
What is calling 911?
This person should be called before cutting a foster child’s hair.
Who is the Tapestry Social Worker?
Tapestry Social workers need as much advanced notice as possible if you a resource parent requires assistance with this for a child.
What is transportation?
A child’s Height & Weight Chart (includes allowance chart) is due to Tapestry this often.
What is monthly?
A foster child does not need permission from resource parents to contact this person.
Who is the Social Worker?
Community Care Licensing allow Foster Family Agencies to conduct one of these per year
What is an unannounced home visit?
Licensing standards refers to irregular or infrequent, less than 24 hour, child care or babysitting for foster children as this.
What is prudent parenting?
This type of punishment may never be used by a resource parent.
If appropriate, this must be reviewed and completed with the respite provider when a child is dropped off for respite.
What is a Medication Transfer Form?
Unless prohibited by court order, a foster child has the right to receive confidential telephone calls and mail in this condition.
What is un-opened?
An ISFC certified resource parent must accrue 12 hours of annual training and a non-ISFC resource parent must accrue this many hours of annual training.
What is 8?
This is the minimum temperature that a resource home must be at all times.
What is 68°?
Opportunities for foster children to earn money should be given outside of this.
What is allowance?
It is never ok to not get a copy of this
What is a prescription?
A personal right of a foster child is to contact Community Care Licensing Division of the State Department of Social Services, or this person, regarding violations of rights, to speak to representatives of these offices confidentially and to be free from threats or punishments for making complaints
What is the State Foster Care Ombudsman?
2 weeks’ notice should be given to Tapestry any time a resource family plans to do this.
What is travel outside of Mendocino County for more than 1 day?
As a mandated reporter, you have this many hours from the time of notification to file a written report of Suspected Child Abuse Report to Child Protective Services.
What is 36?
These must always be locked up and/or stored in a place inaccessible to foster children.
What are laundry supplies?
This should never be done with medication prior to administering it to foster children