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Child Foster Care

Children thrive best in their families. Family preservation efforts are provided to prevent out-of-home placement whenever possible. Most often, foster care is temporary and children are reunited with their parents within a short time.

In Minnesota, when children must enter foster care, relatives and kin are sought to care for their children. Preserving relationships with family members is crucial to a child’s sense of safety and well-being. When relatives and kin are not available, county social services recruits community members to become foster families. In Minnesota, more than 70 percent of the children in out-of-home placement are in a home setting.


How Foster Care Helps
Foster care provides a safe place to be if a child cannot live with his/her family or on their own. Children enter foster care because of neglect, abuse, a family crisis, or the child’s own needs. Foster parents help by providing stability, affection, consistency, and nurturing.

Foster care is a temporary living situation for children. It is not meant to be forever. Children usually continue to visit their own families until they may be reunified. While the child is out of the home, Douglas County Social Services is working to provide services so that the child can return to their parent(s). In most situations, foster families will have some contact with the child’s family.

Foster care enables children to:

  • Remain in their communities
  • Remain close to their siblings, other family members, and friends
  • Attend the same schools, team events, cultural and social activities.

 Foster families play a critical role. Foster families may provide:

  • Temporary, short-term care for children in crisis
  • Longer term care as families work through the reunification process. When reunification is not possible, foster families sometimes make a permanent commitment to their foster children.
  • Respite care for the children whose families may need a short break from their daily routine.


CHILD FOSTER CARE LICENSING

Information to Consider
Should I do foster care? Is foster care parenting right for me?
Child foster care licensing information for prospective foster parents
Agreement between foster parents and placement agency
Perspective on foster care and adoption (see DHS documents in the Social Services Forms Search under the Child Foster Care heading)


All documents are available through the Social Services Forms Search page using the Child Foster Care Forms link at the right.  Douglas County Social Services has prepared and organized a number of documents that are used in licensing Child Foster Care providers. Documents have been provided for the following categories:

        Corporate Child Foster Care Providers
        Family Child Foster Care Providers

In addition, each of these categories have documents designated for an initial license application or the license renewal process.


CHILD FOSTER CARE TRAINING

For more information on training requirements and on-line training that is available, please use the link at the right.


Below are the Rules and Statutes that are pertinent to each of the above categories. We suggest that you visit the State of Minnesota Revisor's website using the link at the right to review and/or print each section applicable to your program license.

        Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 245A
        Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 245C
        Minnesota Rules, parts 2960.3000 to 2960.3340


Minnesota Statutes, Section 176.182 requires every state and local licensing agency to withhold the issuance or renewal of a license or permit to operate a business in Minnesota until the applicant presents acceptable evidence of compliance with the workers' compensation insurance coverage requirement of Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 176. If the required information is not provided or is falsely stated, it shall result in a $2,000 penalty assessed against the applicant by the commissioner of the Department of Labor and Industry. A valid workers’ compensation policy must be kept in effect at all times by employers as required by law.

The document to comply with this regulation can be accessed by going to the Minnesota Department of Labor and Industry website using the link at the right. On the blue bar, click "Workers' Compensation"; then click "Forms" and scroll down to "Certificate of Compliance Minnesota Worker's Compensation Law (MN LIC 04)"

 

Contact

Jennifer McLaughlin
P: 320-762-3814

Also in this Section

  • Child Foster Care Forms Search
  • Child Foster Care Training

Related Links

  • Minnesota Department of Labor and Industry - Worker's Compensation Certificate of Compliance
  • State of Minnesota Revisor - Human Services Licensing Act

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