(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)(A) An agency
shall
is to
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)(B) 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
is
to submit a written request to the recommending agency.
(D)(C) 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
is to
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
is to proceed as
in paragraph (E)
(D) of this rule.
(2) If the foster caregiver does not meet
those requirements, the agency shall
is not to 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)(D) Changing from one
type of foster home to another.
(1) The
agency
shall
is
to 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)
Ohio department of children and youth
(DCY) 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)(2) At the discretion
of the recommending agency, for a currently certified
pre-adoptive infant
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)(3) When the agency
recommends that a foster caregiver's certification be changed to another type
of foster home, the recommendation shall
is to be
submitted as a change to ODJFS in
SACWIS
the Ohio
comprehensive child welfare information system (Ohio CCWIS). The
ODJFS
Ohio
SACWIS resource identification number shall
is to remain the
same as the previous identification number.
Notes
Ohio Admin. Code
5101:2-5-25
Effective:
1/1/2025
Five Year Review (FYR) Dates:
9/11/2024 and
01/01/2030
Promulgated
Under: 119.03
Statutory
Authority: 5103.03,
5103.0316
Rule
Amplifies: 5103.02,
5103.03,
5103.0316
Prior
Effective Dates: 01/01/2003, 12/11/2006, 08/01/2010, 12/01/2015,
02/01/2021
