(a) Each licensed foster family agency or county operating an intensive services foster care program shall develop a child’s individual needs and services plan in coordination with the child’s case worker, intensive services foster care resource family, and child and family team, if available. A county operating under a public delivery model or as a licensed foster family agency model may utilize the child’s case plan as the individual needs and services plan.
(b) Notwithstanding paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) of Section 17732, no more than two foster children, one or both of whom may be eligible children, shall be placed in an intensive services foster care resource family home.
(c) Notwithstanding subdivision (b), in order to accommodate sibling group placements when at least one sibling is an eligible child, there shall be no more than a total of five foster children in an intensive services foster care resource family home, including the two eligible children that may be placed pursuant to subdivision (b).
(d) Prior to placement of a second child pursuant to subdivision (b), or a second and subsequent child or sibling placement pursuant to subdivision (c), a licensed foster family agency operating an intensive services foster care program shall provide each county placing agency with a written assessment of the risk and compatibility of placing subsequent foster children together in the same intensive services foster care resource family with an eligible child. Placement may then be made if approved by the county placing agency involved, considering the recommendations of the child and family team.
(e) A foster family agency or county operating an intensive services foster care program may adopt and utilize, and adapt as appropriate, evidence-based approaches and models of care that meet the specific needs of the children and families served by the program.
(Added by Stats. 2017, Ch. 732, Sec. 125. (AB 404) Effective January 1, 2018.)
Last modified: October 25, 2018