Regulation .01 Purpose.
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A.
This chapter establishes the licensing requirements, rights, and responsibilities of resource parents and local departments.
B.
The primary purposes of these regulations are to:
(1)
Ensure that local departments place children with resource parents who will provide children in out-of-home care with safe, nurturing, and trauma-informed environments where their connections with family are supported and maintained; and
(2)
Provide a structured framework for resource parents to collaborate in parenting children in out-of-home care, offer mentorship to the children’s parents or guardians, and actively participate in the reunification and permanency planning process.