Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 18, September 16, 2024
(a) The Department
office having supervision of the child in placement, in consultation with the
resource family parent, shall determine the family members and friends with whom the
child may communicate and visit.
(b)
Level I visitation and communication requirements are as follows:
1. The resource family parent shall comply with
the visitation restrictions specified by the Department for each child in
placement.
2. The resource family parent
shall provide each child in placement with access to a telephone for telephone
conversations with the child's worker and law guardian or law guardian investigator,
as applicable.
i. The resource family parent shall
not obligate the child in placement to pay for the cost of telephone calls to and
from the worker or law guardian.
ii. The
resource family parent shall provide each child in placement with adequate privacy
for telephone calls to and from the worker and law guardian, but the resource family
parent may locate the telephone in an area where the resource family parent can
observe the child's reactions.
3. The resource family parent shall provide each
child in placement with reasonable access to the telephone and other means of
communication for communication with the child's parents.
i. The resource family parent may impose
restrictions on these conversations and communications if necessary to comply with a
court order or child's case plan that limits the child's contact with his or her
parents.
ii. When the resource family
parent imposes restrictions on a child's access to telephone conversations or other
means of communication, as specified in (b)3i above, the resource family parent
shall explain the nature of the restrictions to the child.
4. The resource family parent shall prohibit the
use of tapes or any other mechanical or electronic listening devices to monitor the
telephone calls of a child in placement.
5. The resource family parent shall provide each
child in placement with adequate amounts of stamps and writing materials for
corresponding with family, friends and other persons who have a positive
relationship with the child.
6. If a
visitor appears to be under the influence of drugs or alcohol, the resource family
parent shall prohibit the individual from transporting the child in
placement.
(c) The resource
family parent shall provide each child in placement with reasonable access to the
telephone or other means of communication to communicate with friends. The resource
family parent may impose one or more of the following conditions:
1. Restricting the time and duration of telephone
calls or other communications;
2.
Denying the child in placement the use of the telephone or other means of
communication for discipline reasons; and
3. Requesting the child in placement to identify
telephone callers and those individuals with whom the child in placement
communicates.
(d) If a
visitor appears to be under the influence of drugs or alcohol, the resource family
parent:
1. May restrict the individual from
visiting; and
2. Shall immediately
contact the Division or the State Central Registry when the Division's local office
is closed.
(e) The resource
family parent shall request that the child in placement open parcels or letters in
the presence of the resource family parent upon suspicion that the contents contain
contraband. If the child refuses to comply with this request, the resource family
parent shall inform the child's worker.
(f) The resource family parent shall permit a
child in placement to visit his or her Division worker and law guardian or law
guardian investigator, as applicable, upon request.
