Section 75-03-36-40 - [Repealed effective 4/1/2024] Service deliveryThe child-placing agency shall develop written policy addressing the service delivery component of its programming, including the following:
1. A description of how the child-placing agency engages in the child and family team and wraparound philosophies, and how collaboration efforts occur; 2. A description of how the child-placing agency provides services for a child to accommodate the child's needs, either directly or through cooperative arrangements with other agencies; 3. A description of how the child-placing agency demonstrates that it is guided by the best interests of the child in all matters relating to services for children; 4. Regarding religion and spirituality, a requirement that: a. The child-placing agency assess the religious and spiritual needs of the child and the child's family upon admission; b. The child-placing agency give appropriate consideration to the religious and spiritual needs requests of the child and the child's family when determining programming and placement; c. The child-placing agency and foster parents respect the religious and spiritual beliefs of the child and the child's family; d. The child-placing agency and foster parents make opportunities available for the child to attend religious and spiritual ceremonies of the child's choosing within the area in which the child is placed, whenever possible; and e. The child-placing agency document the religious and spiritual activities in which the child participates; 5. Regarding culturally sensitive programming, a requirement that: a. The child-placing agency assess the cultural needs of the child and the child's adoptive and birth families upon admission; b. The child-placing agency give appropriate consideration to the cultural needs of the child and the child's adoptive and birth families when determining programming and placement; c. The child-placing agency and foster parents respect the cultural beliefs of the child and the child's adoptive and birth families; d. The child-placing agency and foster parents make cultural opportunities available within the area in which the child is placed, whenever possible; and e. The child-placing agency document its efforts to meet the cultural needs of the child and the child's adoptive and birth families; 6. Regarding educational needs, a requirement that: a. The child-placing agency provide opportunities for academic and vocational training; b. The child-placing agency attempt to place a child to maintain the child's current school placement; and c. When applicable, the child-placing agency document the reasons why a child had to change schools due to placement; 7. Regarding how the child-placing agency supports the state's efforts to maintain sibling connections, a requirement that: a. The child-placing agency make efforts, and document efforts made to place siblings together; b. The child-placing agency document the reasons siblings were not placed together; c. The child-placing agency arrange sibling visits and contacts;d. The child-placing agency document visits between siblings; and e. The child-placing agency educate foster parents on the importance of sibling visits, state requirements regarding these visits, and assist the foster parents with overcoming obstacles regarding sibling visits; 8. Regarding how the child-placing agency supports the child welfare system's parent and child visitation policy, a requirement that: a. The child-placing agency arrange visits between a child and the child's parents; b. The child-placing agency document the visits between parents and a child in care; c. When visits are not occurring as required, the child-placing agency document efforts made, and the reasons the visits are not occurring; and d. The child-placing agency educate foster parents on the importance of parent-child visits, and that the visits are required, and assist the foster parents with overcoming obstacles regarding these visits; 9. Regarding the clothing and personal items allowance available to foster children, a requirement that: a. The child-placing agency provide each child with clothing, which is individually selected and fitted, appropriate to the season and comparable to that of other children in the community; and b. The child-placing agency provide each child with age-appropriate personal hygiene items; 10. Addressing how the child-placing agency will participate in preparing adolescents with the skills required for them to live independently; 11. Requiring that services are delivered by, or under the supervision of, professionally trained staff who: a. Possess knowledge of child development, family dynamics, and the effects of separation and loss within the child's developmental level; b. Have specialized knowledge, skill, or experiences required to provide or locate resources most suitable to the needs of a child in foster care and to help the child and the foster parents make effective use of those resources; c. Help foster parents improve their parenting skills and teach foster parents what they need to know in caring for a child who is not their own; and d. Work collaboratively with the legal custodian in coordinating services for a child, the child's parents, and foster parents to achieve permanent arrangements for the care of the child; and 12. Commitment to the involvement ofthe child's parents in planning for the child. N.D. Admin Code 75-03-36-40
Repealed by Administrative Rules Supplement 2024-392, April 2024, effective 4/1/2024.General Authority: NDCC 50-12-05
Law Implemented: NDCC 50-12