Current through all regulations passed and filed through September 16, 2024
(A) No child placed in a family foster home
on or before March 31, 2005 shall be moved to another placement solely because
of the failure of the foster caregiver to meet the requirements for treatment
or medically fragile foster homes found in this chapter or in Chapter 5101:2-7
of the Administrative Code.
(B) An
agency shall recommend a foster caregiver be certified to operate only one type
of foster home at a time. A foster home may accept a foster child that is
assessed as needing care at or below the level of care for which the home is
certified.
(C) Whenever a foster
caregiver who is certified to operate a foster home wishes to seek to change
the foster home's certification to another type of certification, the foster
caregiver shall submit a written request to the recommending agency.
(D) If a foster caregiver seeks to change the
foster home's certification to a treatment foster home or a medically fragile
foster home, the agency shall determine if the foster caregiver meets the
qualifying experience requirements contained in paragraph (A) of rule
5101:2-7-16 or
5101:2-7-17 of the
Administrative Code.
(1) If the foster
caregiver meets those requirements, the agency shall proceed as in paragraph
(E) of this rule.
(2) If the foster
caregiver does not meet those requirements, the agency shall not proceed with
the foster caregiver's request.
(3)
Failure of a foster caregiver to prove to the recommending agency's
satisfaction that the foster caregiver meets the qualifying experience
requirements of paragraph (A) of rule
5101:2-7-16 or
5101:2-7-17 of the
Administrative Code does not constitute denial of certification and is not
subject to appeal pursuant to Chapter 119. of the Revised Code.
(E) Changing from one type of
foster home to another.
(1) The agency shall
ensure that all the preplacement training requirements of a foster caregiver
contained in rule
5101:2-5-33 of the
Administrative Code have been completed prior to recommending the home to the
Ohio department of job and family services (ODJFS) for another type of
certification.
(2) Training that
may be considered as meeting either a requirement for preplacement training for
a specialized foster caregiver or a requirement for continuing training for a
family foster caregiver, may be counted as meeting either requirement, even
though the caregiver may be certified to operate only one type of foster home
at a time.
(3) At the discretion of
the recommending agency, for a currently certified foster caregiver who is
seeking to change the type of foster home for which the caregiver is certified,
preplacement or continuing training courses successfully completed within the
most recent three year period from the date of the caregiver's written request
to the agency to be certified as a different type of foster home, may be
counted towards meeting the preplacement requirements for the new type of
foster home.
(4) When the change in
type of foster home certification takes place during a foster caregiver's
certification period, if the foster home's certification designation is
changing from a certification designation that has more stringent requirements
to a certification designation that has less stringent requirements, the new
certification period for the foster home shall be until the end of the
caregiver's current certification period.
(5) If the foster home's certification
designation is recommended to change from a certification category that has
less stringent requirements to a certification category that has more stringent
requirements, the new certification period will be for two years, effective
from the date ODJFS receives the recommendation for the change of a
certification category in the statewide automated child welfare database
(SACWIS).
(6) When the agency
recommends that a foster caregiver's certification be changed to another type
of foster home, the recommendation shall be submitted as a change to ODJFS in
SACWIS. The ODJFS SACWIS resource identification number shall remain the same
as the previous identification number.
