1. A. This chapter establishes the licensing requirements, rights, and responsibilities of resource parents and local departments.

2. B. The primary purposes of these regulations are to:

   1. (1) Ensure that local departments place children with resource parents who will provide children in out-of-home care with safe, nurturing, and trauma-informed environments where their connections with family are supported and maintained; and
   2. (2) Provide a structured framework for resource parents to collaborate in parenting children in out-of-home care, offer mentorship to the children’s parents or guardians, and actively participate in the reunification and permanency planning process.

Authority: Human Services Article, §2-209, Annotated Code of Maryland

Effective date: July 4, 1994 (21:13 Md. R. 1155)

Chapter revised effective December 12, 2002 (29:24 Md. R. 1918)

Regulation .02B amended effective June 15, 2009 (36:12 Md. R. 836)

Regulation .08A amended effective June 15, 2009 (36:12 Md. R. 836)

Chapter revised effective April 16, 2012 (39:7 Md. R. 490)

Regulation .04E amended effective September 30, 2013 (40:19 Md. R. 1543)

Regulations .01—.24 repealed and new Regulations .01 — .20 adopted effective December 12, 2024 (51:24 Md. R. 1081)