Article 4 - CHILD WELFARE AND PLACEMENT
- Section 8-501 - Definitions
- Section 8-502 - Foster parent and child welfare agency information; confidentiality; permissible disclosure; use; violation; classification; definitions
- Section 8-503 - Powers and duties
- Section 8-503.01 - Children and family services training program fund; purposes; status report; exemption from lapsing
- Section 8-504 - Sanitation, fire and hazard inspection
- Section 8-505 - Issuance of licenses; application; investigation; renewal
- Section 8-506 - Denial, suspension or revocation of license; foster home; hearing; exception
- Section 8-506.01 - Denial, suspension, revocation or change of license; child welfare agency; appeal
- Section 8-507 - Operation without license
- Section 8-508 - Receipt of articles of incorporation
- Section 8-509 - Licensing of foster homes; fingerprint waiver; restricted license; renewal of license; provisional license; exemption from licensure; immunization requirements
- Section 8-509.01 - Prospective foster parent's blindness; burden of proof; specific written findings; definitions
- Section 8-510 - Acceptance of children by agency
- Section 8-511 - Short-term caregiver
- Section 8-512 - Comprehensive medical and dental care; guidelines
- Section 8-512.01 - Behavioral health services; urgent need; dependent and adopted children; definition
- Section 8-512.02 - Comprehensive health plan expenditure authority fund; reversion
- Section 8-513 - Participation in activities; contact with relatives; placement with siblings; independent living programs
- Section 8-514 - Placement in foster homes
- Section 8-514.01 - Placement of children with developmental disabilities
- Section 8-514.02 - Placement of child
- Section 8-514.03 - Kinship foster care; requirements; investigation
- Section 8-514.04 - Kinship care program; requirements
- Section 8-514.05 - Foster care provider and department access to child health information; consent to treatment
- Section 8-514.06 - Out-of-home placement; documents; definition
- Section 8-514.07 - [Effective Until ninety-one days after adjournment] Kinship foster care; relative identification and notification; due diligence search
- Section 8-514.07 - [Effective ninety-one days after adjournment] Kinship foster care; relative identification and notification; due diligence search
- Section 8-514.08 - Educational decisions; parent contact information; inability to locate
- Section 8-515 - Time limits on placement in receiving home; court orders
- Section 8-515.01 - Local foster care review boards; appointment; exclusions; terms; training; compensation; meetings
- Section 8-515.02 - Case assignment; distribution of records
- Section 8-515.03 - Duties of local foster care review boards
- Section 8-515.04 - [Effective Until ninety-one days after adjournment] State foster care review board; members; personnel; training programs; compensation
- Section 8-515.04 - [Effective ninety-one days after adjournment] State foster care review board; members; personnel; training programs; annual report; compensation
- Section 8-515.05 - Removal of child from foster parent's home; requirements; notification; review
- Section 8-516 - Supervision of foster homes; reports; review of file; progress report
- Section 8-517 - Withdrawal from foster home
- Section 8-518 - Central registry; change of address; marital status
- Section 8-519 - Records and reports
- Section 8-520 - Violations; classification
- Section 8-521 - Independent living program; conditions; eligibility; rules; progress reports; educational case management unit
- Section 8-521.01 - Transitional independent living program
- Section 8-521.02 - Extended foster care program; requirements
- Section 8-522 - Dependency actions; special advocate; appointment; duties; immunity
- Section 8-523 - Special advocate program
- Section 8-524 - Special advocate fund
- Section 8-525 - Open court proceedings; closure; records
- Section 8-526 - Child welfare; reporting requirements
- Section 8-526.01 - [Repealed Effective 1/1/2027] Missing children; reporting requirements; definitions
- Section 8-527 - Children in out-of-home care; noninterference with regular school activities
- Section 8-528 - Newborn infants left with safe haven providers; placement protocol; definitions
- Section 8-529 - Children in foster care and kinship foster care; rights
- Section 8-530 - Foster parents and kinship foster care parents; rights
- Section 8-530.01 - Placement of a child returning to foster care; notification
- Section 8-530.02 - Child welfare; joint annual report
- Section 8-530.03 - Child placement; time limits
- Section 8-530.04 - Educational placement; best interest of child; transportation
- Section 8-530.05 - Transportation; dispute resolution
- Section 8-530.06 - [Effective ninety-one days after adjournment] [As Added by L. 2024, ch. 96] Group foster homes; employees; random drug screening
- Section 8-530.06 - [Effective ninety-one days after adjournment] [As Added by L. 2024, ch. 164] Leaving care of the department; safe and stable housing; report; definition