(a) Each intensive services foster care resource family selected to participate in the intensive services foster care program shall rent, lease, or own their own home.

(b) Unless approval is granted pursuant to subdivision (c), a licensed foster family agency operating an intensive services foster care program shall not have an interest in the property occupied by an intensive services foster care resource family.

Terms Used In California Welfare and Institutions Code 18360.35

  • 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
  • Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC

(c) The department shall review and preapprove any public-private housing arrangements developed by a licensed foster family agency to address the unique needs of an intensive services foster care resource family and eligible child. The review shall ensure that the arrangement does not jeopardize the interests of the intensive services foster care resource family and eligible child. The arrangements shall comply with state and federal laws, including those pertaining to fiscal, licensing, and corporate requirements.

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

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