OAR 416-530-0000
Purpose
(1)
OYA seeks to ensure community safety, youth offender accountability and youth offender reformation by providing youth offender foster care as an integral part of its continuum of services. OYA provides foster care for youth offenders who are 12 years of age through the age of 24. These rules establish OYA foster care standards for:(a)
The certification and re-certification process for foster parents;(b)
The standards that foster parents must meet while providing youth offender foster care services under the OYA Foster Care Program; and(c)
The process by which a certification to maintain a youth offender foster home may be placed on inactive referral status, terminated, suspended, or revoked.(2)
These rules apply to applicants seeking OYA certification, certified foster parents and respite providers, and Private Child-caring Agency proctor parents unless otherwise specified.
Source:
Rule 416-530-0000 — Purpose, https://secure.sos.state.or.us/oard/view.action?ruleNumber=416-530-0000.