Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 39, September 25, 2024
(a)
Payment by a social services district to foster family boarding home or an
emergency foster family boarding home for the provision of respite care and
services to a foster child must not exceed the per diem maximum State aid rate
for foster family boarding home care currently being paid on behalf of the
child.
(b) Payment by a social
services district for respite care and services for foster families provided by
agency boarding homes, group homes, group residences or institutions must be
made at the rates contained in the social services district's agreement with
such providers for the provision of foster care services.
(c) Payments may be made by a social services
district for reserved accommodations in foster family boarding homes or
emergency foster family boarding homes approved for the provision of respite
care and services.
(d)
(1) Payment made by a social services
district to individual providers approved pursuant to section
435.6 of this Part or to foster
family boarding homes approved to provide respite care and services for
families as mandated preventive services are to be made pursuant to a purchase
of service contract or letter of intent between the social services district
and the approved provider(s) or a purchase of service contract between the
social services district and the voluntary authorized agency or preventive
services agency supervising the approved provider(s). Such contract or letter
of intent must conform to the provisions of Parts 405 and 423 of this Title;
provided, however, that the provisions of section
405.1(a) of this
Title limiting such contracts to local public agencies, private non-profit
agencies or organizations, and private proprietary agencies are not applicable
to providers of respite care and services for families. Rates of payment under
such contracts or letters of intent may be negotiated by the social services
district with the individual providers or foster family boarding homes but must
be uniform throughout the district.
(2) Payments made by a social services
district to agency boarding homes, group homes, group residences or
institutions for respite care and services for families when provided in
accordance with this Part must be set by a purchase of services agreement for
such services and must not exceed the rates contained in the social services
district's agreement with such providers for the provision of foster care
services.
(3) Payments made by a
social services district to family home providers or programs approved by the
Office of Mental Health or the Office for People with Developmental
Disabilities and approved by the social services district for respite care and
services for families provided in accordance with this Part must be set by a
purchase of services contract or letter of intent between the social services
district and such agency, provider or program in accordance with Part 405 of
this Title.
(4) The provisions of
this section apply to respite care and services for families that are provided
for less than 24 hours, including the requirements that payments for such
services must not exceed the equivalent of an applicable per diem rate for
foster care services and that such payment rates must be uniform throughout the
district.
(e) A social
services district may continue to provide payments to foster parents for those
periods of time during which respite care and services are also being
provided.
