CHILD WELFARE MANUAL

Attachment D: Foster/Relative Family Renewal Assessment Recording Outline

The Children’s Division has the option not to renew a foster home license in cases where a licensed foster home has not accepted a placement over a two-(2-) year period.

Summary of Contacts: Include date of contact, and with whom contact was made.

Summary of Placements:Include foster/relative parent strengths and weaknesses around following issues:

  1. Children’s behaviors
  2. Relationship with birth parents
  3. Relationship with agency

Summary of Changes Since Last License Issuance:  Include family’s coping to particular change:

  1. Health (mental, physical, emotional)
  2. Marital
  3. Financial/employment
  4. Family composition
  5. Own children’s behavior
  6. House move

Summary of Foster Parent Training Participation:  Include dates, titles, number of hours attended, taught by whom, under whose auspices, location.

Summary of References:

  1. Highway Patrol (arrests and convictions)
  2. CA/N Central Registry
  3. Documentation of Case.net review
  4. Family Care Safety Registry report
  5. Family Support Division (FSD)
  6. School (of children currently in the home)

Evaluation:  (Include compliance with licensing rules and examples of the resource parent’s implementation of Reasonable and Prudent Parenting Standard.)

Recommendation:

Signature of Worker and Date Signed

Approval of Supervisor Including Signature and Date

Signature of Foster/Relative Parent and Date Signed

Chapter Memoranda History: (prior to 1/31/07)

Memoranda History: