(a) The county shall employ the level of care rate protocol developed pursuant to subdivision (c) of Section 11463 to determine the placement of the eligible children into an intensive services foster care program.

(b) (1) The intensive services foster care rate developed pursuant to subdivision (c) of Section 18360.05 may be paid to an intensive services foster care resource family with an eligible child once the preplacement training requirements in subdivision (b) of Section 18360.10 are satisfied.

Terms Used In California Welfare and Institutions Code 18360.25

  • County: includes "city and county. See California Welfare and Institutions Code 14
  • Eligible child: means a child or nonminor dependent in foster care who has intensive needs, including, but not limited to, medical, therapeutic, or behavioral needs. See California Welfare and Institutions Code 18360
  • Intensive services foster care: means a licensed foster family agency model or public delivery model of home-based family care for eligible children whose needs for safety, permanency, and well-being require specially trained resource parents and intensive professional and paraprofessional services and support in order to remain in a home-based setting, or to avoid or exit congregate care in a short-term residential therapeutic program, group home, or out-of-state residential center. See California Welfare and Institutions Code 18360
  • Intensive services foster care resource family: means a resource family, as defined in Section 16519. See California Welfare and Institutions Code 18360
  • Urgent placement needs: means immediate and extenuating circumstances requiring immediate placement with an intensive services foster care resource parent, as determined by the county placing agency based on the level of care rate protocol. See California Welfare and Institutions Code 18360

(2) The intensive services foster care rate may be paid to a resource family that meets the requirements in paragraph (5) of subdivision (b) of Section 18360.10 for up to 60 days to meet the urgent placement needs of an eligible child. This may be extended for a 60-day period and, in a two-parent home, may be extended for a second 60-day period if the second parent has not completed training, based upon the needs of the child.

(Added by Stats. 2017, Ch. 732, Sec. 125. (AB 404) Effective January 1, 2018.)

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