N.J. Admin. Code § 3A:51-1.2

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 24, December 18, 2024

Section 3A:51-1.2 - Scope

(a) A resource family parent who is subject to the provisions of this chapter shall include any person with whom a child in the care, custody or guardianship of the Department is placed for resource family care, and any person with whom a child is placed by the Division for the purpose of adoption until said adoption is finalized.

(b) The resource family parent shall secure approval from the Department to provide one or more of the following services:

1. Regular foster care, in which care is provided for a child in need of temporary out-of-home placement for protective or other social services reasons;

2. Kinship care, in which the resource family parent is not a parent of the child in placement but is related to the child through blood, marriage, civil union, domestic partnership, or adoption or is connected to the child or the child's parent by an established positive psychological or emotional relationship; and

3. Adoptive care, in which care is provided for a child placed by the Division for the purpose of adoption by the resource family parent until said adoption is finalized.

(c) The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to a person who:

1. Operates a home that is licensed, approved, or regulated pursuant to State law exclusively by the State Department of Health, the State Department of Education, the State Department of Corrections, or any other New Jersey State agency;

2. Provides care exclusively for children under the auspices of the Division of Children's System of Care in the Department or the Division of Mental Health and Addiction Services of the Department of Human Services; or

3. Operates a children's group home, treatment home, teaching family home, alternative care home, supervised transitional living home, or shelter home that provides room, board, care, shelter, or treatment services for children on a 24-hour-a-day basis.

N.J. Admin. Code § 3A:51-1.2

Administrative Change, 49 N.J.R. 98a.

Amended by 49 N.J.R. 2792(a), effective 8/21/2017

Amended by 51 N.J.R. 1263(b), effective 8/5/2019