California Welfare and Institutions Code

§ 18360.15

WIC § 18360.15 Effective Jan 1, 2020Div. 9 · Part 6 · Ch. 6.3

Statute text

(a)Each licensed foster family agency or county operating an intensive services foster care program shall develop a child’s individual needs and services plan in coordination with the child’s case worker, intensive services foster care resource family, and child and family team, if available. A county operating under a public delivery model or as a licensed foster family agency model may utilize the child’s case plan as the individual needs and services plan.

(b)Notwithstanding paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) of Section 17732, no more than three foster children, two of whom may be eligible children, may be placed in an intensive services foster care resource family home. Prior to the placement of a second or third foster child in the home, who may be an eligible or noneligible child, the requirements of paragraphs (1), (2), (3), and (4) of subdivision (c) shall be met.

(c)Notwithstanding subdivision (b), a county placing agency may approve placements for additional foster children that would result in the placement of more than three foster children or more than two eligible children in the home in compelling circumstances, including in order to accommodate a preexisting relationship, to place a sibling group together when at least one sibling is an eligible child or was previously an eligible child in that home, or to accommodate the extraordinary needs of a specific child that the resource family has a unique ability to meet. A shortage of foster homes shall not be a compelling circumstance absent other factors. Prior to the approval of the placement of additional foster children beyond the capacity described in subdivision (b), all of the following requirements shall be met:

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Legislative history

Amended by Stats. 2019, Ch. 777, Sec. 28. (AB 819) Effective January 1, 2020. Conditionally inoperative on or after July 1, 2028, pursuant to Section 18360.36. Repealed as of January 1 following the inoperative date.