OAR 416-530-0020
Certification Process
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OYA seeks to recruit individuals who meet or exceed the qualifications described in these rules to provide foster care services to youth offenders. OYA further seeks to retain qualified foster parents who continue to provide an important component of the OYA service delivery system to youth offenders. In order to accomplish these objectives and to ensure that youth offenders receive services in a safe, respectful, rehabilitative, and positive atmosphere, OYA has developed a thorough certification process.(2)
The certification process is a partnership between the applicant or foster parent and OYA. The process allows for individuals interested in providing youth offender foster care services to ask questions about foster care standards, foster parent qualifications, foster home qualifications, and supervision of youth offenders and it allows OYA to assess the willingness, abilities, and suitability of applicants to provide such foster care services. The process also allows foster parents to review the prior year during the re-certification process and allows OYA to re-assess the foster parent’s continued qualification, willingness and ability to provide services.(3)
The granting of a Youth Offender Foster Home Certificate is not a guarantee that youth offenders will be placed in the foster home.(4)
OYA has a responsibility to Oregonians to manage its resources within available funds. When the OYA Director or designee determines that funding for these resources is jeopardized or otherwise not available, the OYA Director may suspend recruitment of new foster home resources in areas where the availability of foster homes exceeds the need for placements.(5)
Relative foster care applicants: A youth offender foster home may be maintained by a person related to the youth offender by blood or marriage when financial need can be determined by OYA. OYA must review potential relative foster care applicants to determine if there is a true financial need in order to provide the youth offender room, board, clothing, allowance, personal incidentals, transportation, respite services, educational supplies, and other costs approved by OYA. Relative foster parents are bound by the same rules and expectations as foster parents who are not relatives.
Source:
Rule 416-530-0020 — Certification Process, https://secure.sos.state.or.us/oard/view.action?ruleNumber=416-530-0020.