Licensing
You must have completed this many hours of pre-service training (Deciding Together or TIPS-MAPP) according to the state of NC in order to be licensed as a foster parent.
What is 30 hours?
When a child returns from foster care to live with his or her birth family.
What is reunification?
The state defines this as using inappropriate and harmful measures as punishment techniques.
What is corporal punishment?
This refers to the physical, emotional, social, mental, and spiritual health and development of a child.
What is Well-Being?
You must have ALL of these in the home double locked and stored in an area other than the kitchen, laundry room, or bathroom.
What is medications?
These items must be locked and stored separately in your home if you have them.
What are firearms and ammunition?
This person advocates in court for the child.
What is a Guardian Ad Litem or GAL?
EVERY child should have this when they come to your home (or start one) AND take it with them when they leave.
What is a Lifebook?
The underlying conditions that must be met before a person can achieve a goal.
What are Needs?
What is vaccinations and rabies shots?
What is three?
When parents fail to meet children's basic needs for shelter, food, clothing, schooling, or medical attention.
What is Neglect?
Foster parents are mandated to interact with birth parents through a process referred to as this...
What is Shared Parenting?
When foster or adoptive parents decide they are unable to continue caring for a particular child and the child must leave their home.
What is a disruption?
Older youth who do not return home or are not provided with a permanent family through adoption receive "this" preparation.
What is Independent Living?
You must complete these four additional trainings prior to licensure.
What is Foster Home Preparedness, CPR, Court Training and Medication Administration Training?
The development of two permanency planning goals at the same time.
What is concurrent planning?
The assurance of a family for a child intended to last a lifetime. This assures the child a family where he or she will be safe and nurture.
What is Permanence?
The shared history of a group of people, usually of the same ethnicity.
What is Heritage?
You need "this" many hours of continuing education in order to be eligible for relicensure.
What is 20 hours for each parent?
Licensing has the authority to do what if regulatory standards are not being met for the safety of the foster home?
Remove the child and put the family on hold.
A term that refers to the court system finding evidence as factual that a child isn't safe to return home to their parents
Adjudication
The adoption process cannot start unless the foster child has been in the home this amount of time....
This agency is screens out and/or investigates all allegations of abuse/neglect/dv involving a child in the home.
CPS Child Protective Services
Foster Parents are required to do which trainings annually?
Med Admin and Foster Home Preparedness