Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:288.3 – A. The department may provide extended foster care services for a youth who satisfies one of the following conditions for eligibility:
Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:288.3
- Department: means the Department of Children and Family Services. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:288.2
- Youth: means an individual who was adjudicated as a child in need of care, was in foster care in the department's custody on the day before his eighteenth birthday, and is at least eighteen years of age but less than twenty-one years of age. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:288.2
A. The department may provide extended foster care services for a youth who satisfies one of the following conditions for eligibility:
(1) Completing secondary education or a program leading to an equivalent credential.
(2) Enrolled in an institution that provides postsecondary or vocational education.
(3) Participating in a program or activity designed to promote employment or remove barriers to employment.
(4) Employed for at least eighty hours per month.
(5) Is incapable of doing any part of the activities in Paragraphs (1) through (4) of this Subsection due to a medical condition. A medical condition invoked pursuant to this Paragraph shall be documented and supported by regularly updated information in the youth’s case plan.
B. The department shall notify all foster children and their foster parents or other custodians in writing of the availability of these benefits and services upon the foster child’s seventeenth birthday, and every ninety days thereafter until the child’s eighteenth birthday, unless the foster child and foster parents or other custodians have already consented in writing to participation in this program.
Acts 2019, No. 400, §2, eff. June 19, 2019.