Child Records
This responsibility requires foster parents to maintain accurate and relevant records of a child's history and progress.
What is Responsibility 15: Maintaining Accurate and Relevant Child Records?
This responsibility encourages FP's to connect with other FP's and foster parent associations.
What is Responsibility 6- Relying on and Connecting with Other Foster Parents?
This foster parent right addresses receiving a clear written understanding of the agency's placement plan for a child.
What is Right 5-Placement of a Child?
This right ensures foster parents know how to contact the appropriate child placement agency for information and assistance.
What is Right 3-Contacting Child Placement Agency?
This responsibility requires foster parents to openly communicate and share information about a child with other members of the child welfare team.
What is Responsibility 1-Communication and Sharing Information?
These are three types of child records that foster parents are responsible for maintaining.
What are Medical, Dental, Mental Health, Education, or Background records
Connecting with other FP's and FP associations is intended to improve this aspect of foster parenting.
What is the quality of care and service provided to children and families?
Foster parents are expected to support a child's relationships with these two important parts of their identity and background.
What are the child's family and cultural heritage?
According to the Implementation Plan, this resource contains important emergency contact numbers and information about the child.
What is the FP manual - emergency section.
Under Responsibility 2, foster parents must protect this type of information concerning foster children and their families.
What is confidential information?
These three details must be documented on a child's medication log.
What are the medication type, date, and time?
These are two types of opportunities identified in the Implementation Plan that help foster parent connect with others.
What are foster-parent support groups and foster-parent associations?
When a child transitions to another caregiver, foster parents share information about the child's adjustment through this group.
What is the child welfare team?
Under Right 3, this support system is described as available to foster parents 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
What is the emergency on-call system?
This responsibility requires foster parents to recognize their own strengths, limitations, and support needs when deciding whether to accept a child into care.
What is Responsibility 5-Recognizing Foster Parent's Strengths and Limitations?
This describes how promptly foster parents must provide requested documentation to agency staff.
What is in a timely manner?
A new foster parent feels that seeking support from experience foster parents is a sign of weakness. This responsibility explains why connecting with others is valuable.
What is Responsibility 6- Relying on and Connecting with Other Foster Parents?
This circumstance is identified as an exception to the agency providing written notice of its intent to remove a child from a foster home.
What is an imminent risk of harm requiring immediate removal?
This right provides foster parents with the opportunity for a fair, timely, and impartial investigation of complaints concerning their licensure.
What is Right 6-Fair and Timely Complaint Investigations?
Under Responsibility 9, foster parents are expected to recognize and minimize this impact that fostering can have on themselves and their family relationships.
What is stress resulting from foster parenting?
A FP discovers that a child's medical, dental, and educational records are incomplete. This responsibility requires the FP to maintain accurate and relevant information about the child's history and progress.
What is Responsibility 15: Maintaining Accurate and Relevant Child Records?
What is Responsibility 6-Relying on Connecting with Other Foster Parents?
During a placement transition, the Child welfare Specialist and Supervisor are responsible for providing the next caregiver with these important records and planning details.
What are medical, educational, visitation, permanency-plan, and life-book information?
During a licensing compliant investigation, foster parents have the right to have this individual present investigative interviews.
Who is an advocate or another person of the foster parent's choosing?
A foster parent is unsure of the roles of the child welfare professional involved in a child's care. this responsibility requires the foster parent to understand those roles, as well as the rights and responsibilities of the child and the child's family.
What is Responsibility 11-Rights, Roles, and Responsibilities of the Foster Parents & Others?