1. A. An agency shall employ a chief administrator whose responsibilities include:

   1. (1) Management of the agency's total program;
   2. (2) Representation of the agency in the community;
   3. (3) Delegation of appropriate responsibilities to other staff;
   4. (4) Recruitment and employment of qualified staff;
   5. (5) Supervision, training, and termination of staff;

   6. (6) Assistance to the governing board in implementing its responsibilities by:

      1. (a) Communicating the needs of the children,
      2. (b) Making recommendations for needed policy changes,
      3. (c) Assisting in the periodic evaluations of the agency's services,
      4. (d) Preparing the annual budget for approval, and
      5. (e) Providing information regarding financial needs.
2. B. The child placement director is responsible for directing, monitoring, and evaluating the child placement service program of the agency.
3. C. The child placement supervisor is responsible for supervising, monitoring, and evaluating the work and progress of the child placement staff.

4. D. The child placement worker's responsibilities include:

   1. (1) Collecting and evaluating information for the child’s placement, and assessing the child’s needs, progress, and discharge planning;
   2. (2) Providing case management services to the child and the child's family while the agency is responsible for the child;
   3. (3) Ensuring that the child receives the therapeutic services the agency is authorized by its license to provide.
   4. (4) Representing the child and the program in liaison relationships with family, school, juvenile court, or other social and community services;
   5. (5) Maintaining a case record on each child;
   6. (6) Making appropriate information available to substitute caregivers and cooperating community agencies; and
   7. (7) Completing adoption and foster home studies.
5. E. Support Services Staff. Individuals may be employed to provide support services and shall perform tasks to support the professional staff and the purpose and goals of the agency in an ethical manner to protect confidentiality requirements.
6. F. Secretarial and Clerical Staff. The agency shall employ a sufficient number of staff to perform secretarial and clerical duties, including maintenance of records, correspondence, and bookkeeping, and train the individuals in the goals of the agency and confidentiality requirements.

7. G. Staffing Pattern Requirements.

   1. (1) The child placement supervisor shall be responsible for not more than 6 child placement workers.
   2. (2) The volume of the caseload assigned to each child placement worker shall allow for the worker to make all required contacts with the birth family, children in care, foster families, adoptive families, and involved professionals.

Authority: Human Services Article, §2-209 Annotated Code of Maryland
Agency Note: Federal Regulatory Reference: 42 U.S.C. §621 et seq.; 45 CFR 1355—1357

Effective date: January 12, 2001 (27:26 Md. R. 2357)

Regulation .14C amended as an emergency action effective July 1, 2023 (50:15 Md. R. 679); emergency status expired December 28, 2023

Chapter revised effective April 14, 2025 (52:7 Md. R. 321)

Regulation .02B amended effective February 2, 2026 (53:2 Md. R. 61)

Regulation .09 amended effective February 2, 2026 (53:2 Md. R. 61)

Regulation .14A amended effective February 2, 2026 (53:2 Md. R. 61)

Regulation .17 amended effective February 2, 2026 (53:2 Md. R. 61)