Minnesota Administrative Rules
Agency 196 - Human Services Department
Chapter 2960 - LICENSURE AND CERTIFICATION OF PROGRAMS FOR CHILDREN
REQUIREMENTS; TREATMENT FOSTER CARE SERVICES
Part 2960.3340 - TREATMENT FOSTER HOME CAPACITY

Universal Citation: MN Rules 2960.3340

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 39, March 25, 2024

Subpart 1. Treatment foster home capacity.

The total number of treatment foster care children placed in one home shall not exceed two unless a variance is granted under subpart 3 for special circumstances. At no time shall a foster home exceed the capacity limits in part 2960.3030.

Subp. 2. Continuing care.

A treatment foster home may continue to provide care for a child after the child has attained the child's treatment goals to support the permanency goals in the child's case plan.

Subp. 3. Capacity limit variance.

The capacity variance conditions must ensure that the foster home will meet the individual treatment needs of the children in care and address specific vulnerabilities that may occur when children are placed together. The variance must identify added support services that will be offered to the treatment foster family to meet the needs of each child in the home and tell how the additional support services can be obtained. A variance granted to treatment foster care parents must also meet the requirements in part 2960.3020, subpart 9. A variance may be granted to allow the capacity of a treatment foster home to exceed two children, if one of the following special circumstances applies:

A. there is a need to place a sibling group together in the foster home; or

B. to place a child with foster parents with which the child had been previously placed.

Statutory Authority: L 1995 c 226 art 3 s 60; MS s 241.021; 245A.03; 245A.09

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