Department of Social Services

 

GDForum ID: 2636

Description of Proposed Guidance Document Changes

The Child & Family Services Manual Chapter D, Resource Family, is being updated to reflect legislative changes in 2023 and 2024 and to provide a re-organized and easier to utilize structure for the Local Department of Social Services. Until now, this chapter of guidance was a single section, but with these changes, the chapter has been reorganized and split into the following five sections: Resource Family Overview, Kinship Resource Family Approval, Resource Family Recruitment, Resource Family Approval, and Resource Family Support. Within the re-organization, the updates to this manual provide clearer differentiation in the approval processes for kinship and non-relative resource parents.

 

Guidance Document(s) for this Comment Forum

Document ID	Document Title	Current Document	Proposed Document	Revised Proposed	Final Action
7216	Child & Family Services Manual Chapter D, Local Department Resource, Foster, and Adoptive Home Approval	Old Version Removed	To Be Deleted		Deleted on 6/5/2026
FS10	Child & Family Services Manual, Chapter D, Resource Family Home Approval	Old Version Removed	To Be Deleted		Deleted on 6/5/2026
7992	Child & Family Services Manual, Chapter D, Local Department Resource, Foster and Adoptive Home Approval	n/a	Proposed Document		Posted with original changes on 06/05/2026

 

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