1. A. The provider agency shall:

   1. (1) Within 30 calendar days of a child's acceptance into the program, develop a treatment plan in conjunction with the local department;
   2. (2) Convene a team, including but not limited to the local department of social services, treatment parents, and therapist to evaluate each child's treatment plan at intervals not to exceed 3 months;
   3. (3) Visit the treatment foster parents at least twice a month;
   4. (4) Provide a child access to medical care;
   5. (5) Have face-to-face contact with a child at a minimum of twice a month;
   6. (6) Provide services to the biological family of a treatment foster care child as required in the permanency and treatment plans;
   7. (7) Attend foster care review board hearings and court hearings;
   8. (8) Provide advance information to the local department on changes affecting services to a child which could result in revisions to the treatment plan, such as changes in placement, placement location, or visitation plans;
   9. (9) Provide the local department every 3 months with a written progress report on the treatment plan;
   10. (10) Provide the treatment foster parents all medical and psychological information necessary for the care of a child;
   11. (11) Provide treatment foster parents access to both planned and crisis respite care of their treatment foster children; and
   12. (12) Maintain a written preservice and in-service training curriculum specific to the population serviced.

2. B. The local department shall:

   1. (1) Within 30 calendar days of the child's acceptance into the provider agency, develop a permanency plan in conjunction with the provider agency;
   2. (2) Inform the foster care review board and the court of a child's placement with the provider agency and the name of the child's case manager;
   3. (3) Review with a child's case manager the progress report required in §A(9) of this regulation;
   4. (4) Meet with a child and the child's biological family every 6 months in consultation with the child's case manager to update the treatment plan; and
   5. (5) Attend foster care review board hearings and court hearings.

Authority: Family Law Article, §§5-501—5-534, Annotated Code of Maryland;
Agency Note: Federal Regulatory Reference 45 CFR §§228.13 and 228.42

Effective date: October 9, 1995 (22:20 Md. R. 1541)