237.5A - FOSTER PARENT TRAINING.
237.5A FOSTER PARENT TRAINING.
As a condition for initial licensure, each individual licensee
shall complete thirty hours of foster parent training offered or
approved by the department. However, if the licensee has completed
relevant training or has a combination of completed relevant training
and experience, and the department deems such training or combination
to be an acceptable equivalent to all or a portion of the initial
licensure training requirement, or based upon the circumstances of
the child and the licensee the department finds there is other good
cause, the department may waive all or a portion of the training
requirement. Prior to annual renewal of licensure, each individual
licensee shall also complete six hours of foster parent training.
The training shall include but is not limited to physical care,
education, learning disabilities, referral to and receipt of
necessary professional services, behavioral assessment and
modification, self-assessment, self-living skills, and biological
parent contact. An individual licensee may complete the training as
part of an approved training program offered by a public or private
agency with expertise in the provision of child foster care or in
related subject areas. The department shall adopt rules to implement
and enforce this training requirement.
A licensee who is unable to complete six hours of foster parent
training prior to annual licensure renewal because the licensee is
engaged in active duty in the military service shall be considered to
be in compliance with the training requirement for annual licensure
renewal. Section History: Recent Form
84 Acts, ch 1279, § 25; 87 Acts, ch 117, § 1; 2002 Acts, ch 1102,
§4; 2004 Acts, ch 1116, §19; 2006 Acts, ch 1159, §6