1. (a) All Division of Children and Family Services staff will:

   1. (1) Ensure good communication among all team members, as well as mutual respect, understanding, and honesty;
   2. (2) Keep resource parents informed of division programs, services, and policies that relate to foster care; and
   3. (3) Support resource homes as needed in order to best serve children and families.

2. (b) Resource Workers will:

   1. (1) Discuss and assist resource parents in understanding their rights and responsibilities as resource parents as well as the rights and responsibilities of the division;
   2. (2) Provide resource parents with the county on-call contact information sheet;

   3. (3) Visit homes quarterly for monitoring to:

      1. (A) Ensure compliance with licensing standards and resource home requirements;
      2. (B) Address any issues; and
      3. (C) Offer support to the resource family;
   4. (4) Engage external stakeholders and share relevant information, thus supporting the practice model;
   5. (5) Inform resource parents of the internal review of adverse action procedure, when differences arise with the division which have not been resolved to the resource parents’ satisfaction, as outlined in PUB-30: Resource Parent Handbook;
   6. (6) Collaborate with adoption staff as appropriate when a child’s permanency goal is changed to adoption and when a child is transitioning from a resource home to an adoptive home; and

   7. (7)

      1. (A) Provide resource parents with information about the division’s opt-in text application used for placement purposes and the resource family provider portal.
      2. (B) Encourage use of both programs during quarterly visits to resource homes.

Codification Notes: This section as promulgated prior to codification into the Code of Arkansas Rules provided as follows: "06/2022"