12.5 Renewal/Reassessment of Relative or Kinship Home
Relative and Kinship homes need to be reassessed every two years, just as with foster homes. The reassessment process will be the same as the initial licensure process, with the exception of the training component for those relatives who wish to exercise the ability to forgo in-service training and remain licensed without receiving the Professional Parenting Payment, PPMN. The worker, or other designee, assigned to the family, will complete the following:
- Background checks; criminal and Child Abuse and Neglect.
- A home assessment of the caregiver.
- The Kinship Home and Safety Checklist Form, CS-45.
- Check and run the Resource Parent Training screen in order to document that the required In-Service training hours for a Relative or Kinship provider have been met in order to continue to receive the Professional Parenting Payment (PPMN). The In-Service training component does not have to be met if the provider is not receiving or chooses not to continue to receive the PPMN, if the placement type is a relative home. A relative provider must complete in-service training requirements in order to continue to receive the PPMN. and
- Renew the license by Adding a Renewal on the Vendor License/Approval and Renewal screen in FACES.
12.5.1 Relative or Kinship Provider Choose to become a Foster Home
If a Relative or Kinship provider decides to become licensed as a traditional foster home, the 27 hours of STARS pre-service training must be successfully completed and all the guidelines located in policy Section 6 Chapter 3 Attachment A completed, before a non-relative or kinship youth in foster care can be placed in the home. All the requirements for renewing the foster home license, located in Section 6 Chapter 3 Attachments D and E must be completed for the foster home license to be renewed.
Chapter Memoranda History: (prior to 1/31/07)
CS03-32, CD04-79, CD05-80, CD06-37, CD06-46, CD06-75