# COMAR Title 07 — Department of Human Services

## Subtitle 05 — Social Services Administration—Private Child Placement Agencies

### Chapter 02 — Private Foster Care

#### Regulation .01 Purposes.

*COMAR 07.05.02.01*

The purpose of private foster care placement services is to:

A. Provide time-limited, foster care services to a child and to the child's parent or legal custodian to facilitate safe, appropriate, and timely reunification with a parent or parents;

B. Concurrently develop and implement a plan in the best interests of a child who cannot be reunified with a parent or parents for planned permanent living arrangements; and

C. Provide temporary care for a child whose permanent plan is adoption.