Or. Admin. Code § 413-090-0010 - Authorized Payments
(1) Family
Foster Care.
(a) Shelter care payment. The
Department reimburses a certified family a shelter care payment on behalf of a
child or young adult during the first 20 days of substitute care in a certified
family home after the Department has obtained physical or legal custody of the
child or young adult. The daily shelter care payment is:
(A) $39.38 for a child 5 years or
younger;
(B) $39.55 for a child 6
through 12 years of age; and
(C)
$41.49 for a child or young adult 13 through 20 years of age.
(b) Base rate payment. The
Department reimburses a resource parent and relative
resource parent a base rate payment on behalf of a child or young
adult in the Department's physical or legal custody when a child or young adult
is placed in the certified family's home.
(A)
Payment is made monthly or prorated for a portion of a month, when the base
rate payment is for less than all days in the month, and made after the month
in which the care has been provided.
(B) The base rate payment starts on day 21 of
a child's placement in substitute care and includes the day the child or young
adult enters the home, but excludes the day the child or young adult leaves the
home.
(C) The base rate payment
amount.
(i) $958.00 for a child 5 years or
younger;
(ii) $963.00 for a child 6
through 12 years of age; and
(iii)
$1022.00 for a child or young adult 13 through 20 years of age.
(D) The Department does not
reimburse the base rate payment to a certified family when reimbursement for
shelter care payment or enhanced shelter care payment applies.
(c) Enhanced shelter care payment.
The Department reimburses a certified family an enhanced shelter care payment
rate on behalf of a child or young adult during the first 20 days of substitute
care with a certified family after a child or young adult has been in placement
with a Behavior Rehabilitation Service provider and there is no current level
of care payment determination applicable to the child or young adult. The daily
enhanced shelter care payment is:
(A) $63.05
for a child 5 years or younger;
(B)
$63.21 for a child 6 through 12 years of age; and
(C) $65.15 for a child or young adult 13
through 20 years of age.
(d) Mileage reimbursement. The Department
reimburses a certified family for mileage, paid at the current Department
mileage reimbursement rate paid to child welfare staff, when the certified
family must provide transportation for a child or young adult in order to
remain in the same school the child or young adult was attending prior to
placement in substitute care.
(2) The Department issues a Chafee housing
payment or an independent living housing subsidy to an eligible individual up
to a maximum of the base rate payment amount for a child or young adult 13-20
years of age per month of eligibility pursuant to OAR
413-030-0400 to
413-030-0460.
(3) Level of care payment.
(a) The Department reimburses a level of care
payment to a certified family on behalf of a child or young adult when the CANS
screening results indicate the child or young adult has enhanced supervision
needs.
(b) The initial level of
care payment to a certified family begins:
(A) No earlier than the twenty first day of
substitute care; or
(B) Ninety days
prior to the date an initial CANS screening was approved for a child or young
adult in substitute care over 111 days.
(c) A level of care payment to a certified
family may commence the first day following the end of enhanced shelter care
payment.
(d) A CANS rescreen level
of care payment to a certified family begins the first day of the month the
CANS rescreen was submitted to the Level of Care Manager for
approval.
(e) The Level of Care
Program Manager or the designee may approve commencing the level of care
payment beyond the timeframes in subsections (b), (c) and (d) of this section
when a delay in scheduling, completing, scoring or approving the CANS screening
results in a potential loss or interruption of a level of care
payment.
(f) A CANS screener rates
each element of a child or young adult's behavior and functioning through the
CANS screening on a scale of zero to three and the ratings determine whether a
child or young adult meets the criteria for one of three levels of care. These
ratings are determined using the following exhibits, which by this reference
are incorporated into this rule:
(A) DHS
9601: Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths Comprehensive Screening Tool
Ages Birth through 5, adopted January 5, 2009, and revised in November 2017
(Exhibit 1).
(B) DHS 9602: Child
and Adolescent Needs and Strengths Comprehensive Screening Tool Ages 6 through
20, adopted January 5, 2009, and revised in November 2017 (Exhibit
2).
(C) Child and Adolescent Needs
and Strengths Algorithm, adopted February 9, 2009, and revised in November 2017
(Exhibit 3).
(D) The Department
maintains the exhibits referenced in (f) of this section on the Department's
website. Printed copies of these exhibits may be obtained by contacting the
Department of Human Services, Office of Child Welfare Programs, ATTN: Level of
Care Manager, 500 Summer Street NE, E93, Salem, OR 97301.
(g) The level of care payment is:
(A) $240.00 per month for Level 1 (moderate
needs).
(B) $468.00 per month for
Level 2 (intermediate needs).
(C)
$960.00 per month for Level 3 (advanced needs).
(4) The Department reimburses a certified
family an applicable base rate payment for a child of a dependent parent when
both are living with the certified family unless the dependent parent receives
a TANF grant under programs administered by the Department of Human Services
under chapter 461 of the Oregon Administrative Rules or has other means of
financial support.
(5) Child care.
(a) The reimbursement for child-care costs to
a certified family on behalf of a child is
authorized when:
(A) The child care is
required due to the certified family's employment,
or;
(B) The certified
family attends college or other educational program and the child care
is needed while they are attending classes. If the certified
family is two certified adults, both adults must be employed or
attending an educational program.
(C) If circumstances, other than (A) or (B)
above, exist that necessitate child care a Child Welfare supervisor may approve
child care.
(b) The
child care setting must be approved by Child Welfare. Types of approved child
care providers include licensed child care facilities, before and after school
programs, government programs, and in-home providers that are exempt from a
license requirement. Approval of an individual who is exempt from a child care
license requirement must be approved as required by OAR
413-200-0281.
(c) Child care reimbursement may be
authorized for a child up to the age of 12. Child care
reimbursement may be authorized for a child or young
adult older than the age of 12 if supervision is required and the
reimbursement is approved by a Child Welfare Supervisor.
(d) Authorization for the reimbursement for
child-care services must be documented on the Child Welfare Foster Parent or
Relative Caregiver Child Care Authorization.
(e) The amount of the child care
reimbursement to the certified family must not exceed $375 per
child per month.
(f) Child care reimbursements must not be
made once an Adoption Assistance or Guardian Assistance agreement is in
place.
(g) Child care
reimbursements may be made on behalf of a child or
young adult placed by Child Welfare in another state under the
ICPC, or placed in Oregon under the ICPC in an Oregon child welfare certified
home, if the sending state does not provide child care assistance.
(h) Child care reimbursements may be made on
behalf of a child or young adult placed in a
home certified by a tribe, who otherwise qualifies, if Child Welfare has
custody of the child or young
adult.
(6)
Payments prohibited. The Department must not authorize a maintenance payment
for the care of a child or young adult to more than one certified family per
day.
(7) A payment by the
Department under this rule is inalienable by any assignment or transfer and
exempt from execution, levy, attachment, and garnishment under the laws of the
state of Oregon.
Notes
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Statutory/Other Authority: ORS 418.005, ORS 418.340 & ORS 409.050
Statutes/Other Implemented: ORS 418.005, ORS 418.340, ORS 418.330, ORS 418.335, ORS 418.470 & ORS 418.625
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