# COMAR Title 07 — Department of Human Services

## Subtitle 02 — Social Services Administration

### Chapter 25 — LDSS Resource Home Requirements

#### Regulation .01 Purpose.

*COMAR 07.02.25.01*

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.