Hawaii Administrative Rules
Title 17 - DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES
Department of Human Services
Chapter 1625 - LICENSING OF RESOURCE FAMILY HOMES FOR CHILDREN
Subchapter 4 - CARE OF FOSTER CHILD
Section 17-1625-42 - Discipline and guidance

(a) Discipline and guidance shall be carried out with kindness and understanding.

(b) No child shall be subjected to any physical punishment or action which would endanger the child's physical, mental, or emotional well-being.

(c) Discipline shall be reasonable and shall not interfere with the child's education, recreation, or social needs.

(d) Visitation and connections with the child's legal custodian, sibling(s) and relatives shall not be withheld as a form of discipline.

(e) As a member of the family, a foster child shall participate in simple home-duties commensurate with the child's age which shall not interfere with school, health, and necessary recreation, or the child's visitation and family contact with the child's legal custodian, family and relatives and which are shared with other children in the home.

(f) The foster child shall be provided an allowance and/or earned privileges as practiced by the resource family with their own children.

(g) The Resource family shall establish well defined age and developmentally appropriate rules which set the expectations, limits, and clear and age appropriate consequences of behavior which shall be shared with the foster child when the child is placed in the resource family home.

(h) The resource family shall teach and guide each child with techniques that stress praise and encouragement.