Qualified residential treatment programs; authorize as alternative placements for children and youth in CPS custody.
Path to permanency; provide for children in Child Protection Services.
Child placed in foster care; clarify that youth court must be consulted before placement is revised.
Department of Child Protection Services; separate agency from the Department of Human Services.
Child protection services; authorize "kinship payments" to children's extended family, as needed or applicable.
Child Protection Services; remove from DHS and make it a separate agency.
Department of Child Protection Services; authorize to make care payments to fictive kin whom a child is placed with.
Durable legal custody; clarify jurisdiction for.
Foster Parents' Bill of Rights; and Responsibilities; create and require to be provided to foster parents.
Qualified residential treatment programs; authorize certain youth in Child Protection Services to be placed in.