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1 Home Study Requirements for Prospective Foster Parents 1 (2018)

handle is hein.scsl/homstu0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Home Study Requirements
for Prospective Foster
Parents
The State agency with responsibility for placing
children in out-of-home care and supervising those
placements must ensure through careful and thorough
assessments of personal characteristics and home
environments that foster parents and other substitute
caregivers are capable of providing safe, nurturing
homes that are in the best interests of the children in
out-of-home care.
A licensed foster family home is one that is approved
by the State to provide care for children and that
meets basic standards of safety set by law and
regulation. Laws and policies for licensing or
approving family foster homes vary considerably from
State to State. These standards reduce predictable
risks to the health, safety, and well-being of children
in out-of-home care. The goal of foster care is to
provide a safe, stable, nurturing environment until
the child is able to return home or until a permanent
family is found for the child. For this publication,
State statutes, regulations, and policies regarding
the requirements for approving foster family homes
were collected from all 50 States, and the results are
presented below.
-m  Child Welfare
* i Information Gateway
Children's Bureau/ACYF/ACF/HHS
800.394.3366  I Email: info@childwelfare.gov  I https://www.childwelfare.gov

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