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<regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".08" citation="COMAR 07.02.21.08" title_num="07" subtitle_num="02" chapter_num="21" heading="Post-Acceptance Responsibilities.">
  <paragraph num="A.">
    <text>The provider agency shall:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>Within 30 calendar days of a child's acceptance into the program, develop a treatment plan in conjunction with the local department;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>Convene a team, including but not limited to the local department of social services, treatment parents, and therapist to evaluate each child's treatment plan at intervals not to exceed 3 months;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(3)">
      <text>Visit the treatment foster parents at least twice a month;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(4)">
      <text>Provide a child access to medical care;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(5)">
      <text>Have face-to-face contact with a child at a minimum of twice a month;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(6)">
      <text>Provide services to the biological family of a treatment foster care child as required in the permanency and treatment plans;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(7)">
      <text>Attend foster care review board hearings and court hearings;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(8)">
      <text>Provide advance information to the local department on changes affecting services to a child which could result in revisions to the treatment plan, such as changes in placement, placement location, or visitation plans;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(9)">
      <text>Provide the local department every 3 months with a written progress report on the treatment plan;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(10)">
      <text>Provide the treatment foster parents all medical and psychological information necessary for the care of a child;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(11)">
      <text>Provide treatment foster parents access to both planned and crisis respite care of their treatment foster children; and</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(12)">
      <text>Maintain a written preservice and in-service training curriculum specific to the population serviced.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="B.">
    <text>The local department shall:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>Within 30 calendar days of the child's acceptance into the provider agency, develop a permanency plan in conjunction with the provider agency;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>Inform the foster care review board and the court of a child's placement with the provider agency and the name of the child's case manager;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(3)">
      <text>Review with a child's case manager the progress report required in §A(9) of this regulation;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(4)">
      <text>Meet with a child and the child's biological family every 6 months in consultation with the child's case manager to update the treatment plan; and</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(5)">
      <text>Attend foster care review board hearings and court hearings.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
</regulation>