Revision Date: 1-13-2026
Section 6 Overview
This section is developed to guide resource development workers in decision making, the provision and documentation of services to children and their families, development of community resources, and their subsequent assessment and utilization. These resources are designed to enhance and improve services to children and their families in need of preventive, protective, and out-of-home care services.
Procedures contained in this chapter incorporate assessment standards (largely based on licensing rules) which reflect the concern of the agency for those children who must live apart from their families during some part of their minority. The purpose of these standards is to protect those children from abuse, neglect, injury, and exploitation, and to assist in treatment and improved social functioning.
It is recognized that such direction cannot be all inclusive; therefore, staff will still need to exercise judgment in individual case situations. In those situations in which staff do not follow the procedures, they will be expected to document the justification for their actions in the individual case record.
With each procedure, and each step within a procedure, it may be necessary for the worker to secure supervisory assistance in order to make a decision. The procedures do not contain a reference to worker-supervisor conferences, but this joint decision-making activity is understood to be an integral part of service delivery to community resource providers.
Chapter 7 Overview
This chapter will describe the Children’s Division’s Appeal Processes.
Table of Contents
6.7.1 Children’s Division’s Fair Hearing Process
6.7.1.1 Homes Developed and or Maintained by Contractors
6.7.2 Alternative Care Review Board (ACRB)
6.7.2.1 Eligibility for an Alternative Care Review Board Grievance
6.7.2.2 Who May File an Alternative Care Review Board Grievance
6.7.2.3 Steps in the Alternative Care Review Board Process
6.7.3 Alternative Care Board Grievance Decision Guidelines
6.7.4 Guidelines for Informal Meeting Decision Letter to the Resource Provider
6.7.5 Alternative Care Review Board (ACRB) Members
6.7.6 Alternative Care Review Board Hearing Summary Outline
6.7.7 Guide for Conducting a Review of a Resource Home
6.7.8 Family Support Team Decision Review
6.7.9 Adoption Staffing Team Decision Review for Family Not Selected
Memoranda History:
CD07-15, CD07-52, CD07-55, CD07-73, CD08-98, CD10-110, CD11-69, CD12-36, CD14-64, CD15-33, CD16-12, CD17-42