United States — Arizona
ARS § 8-504
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The division must inspect child welfare agencies and foster homes for sanitation, fire, and other hazards, and it may delegate additional inspections or studies.
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United States — Arizona
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The division must inspect child welfare agencies and foster homes for sanitation, fire, and other hazards, and it may delegate additional inspections or studies.
United States — Arizona
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Child welfare agencies must be licensed by the division before receiving children, and the division issues and renews those licenses.
United States — Arizona
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The division may deny, suspend, or revoke a foster home license for wilful violations or failure to meet care standards, and it must give notice and provide a hearing process on request.
United States — Arizona
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The division may deny, suspend, or revoke a child welfare agency license for willful violations or failure to meet prescribed care standards, and it must give written notice of the grounds. The applicant or holder may request a hearing within 20 days of notice, and if a hearing is requested it must be held within 10 da
United States — Arizona
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The division must investigate suspected unlicensed operation of an agency or foster home and may take action to stop it. An agency that provides treatment or allows restrictive behavior techniques must obtain the required license, and the superior court may issue an injunction against unlicensed operation.
United States — Arizona
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Before issuing a charter for certain child-care or foster-placement organizations, the corporation commission must send the petition and related information to the division; amendment applications for such charters must be referred the same way.
United States — Arizona
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The department licenses and certifies foster homes, and several conditions limit when licenses can be issued or renewed.
United States — Arizona
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The department may not refuse to license a foster home just because a prospective foster parent is blind, if the home otherwise qualifies.
United States — Arizona
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The department must set and annually estimate the minimum number of licensed foster homes needed, and report yearly on progress, obstacles, and solutions.
United States — Arizona
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A licensed child welfare agency may accept certain children and, after doing so, must care for and control them until they are discharged, transferred, or otherwise lawfully committed elsewhere. It may also assume care, custody, and guardianship of a child’s person or estate during the child’s minority if a court with
United States — Arizona
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If a foster parent must leave a foster child with someone else, the foster parent must use reasonable judgment, notify the department case manager before the care goes beyond 24 hours in a nonemergency or 72 hours in an emergency, and follow an approved alternate care plan in subsection B when applicable.
United States — Arizona
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The department must provide certain children with comprehensive medical and dental care, including behavioral health services, subject to rules and available appropriations.
United States — Arizona
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This section sets behavioral health service steps and deadlines for certain dependent children in out-of-home placement and adoptive parents.
United States — Arizona
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The department must establish and maintain a separate fund for certain health plan revenues and expenses, and the fund must be used for specified medical, dental, and behavioral health costs.
United States — Arizona
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The section lets a child join usual age-appropriate activities when permission is granted, gives children in foster care a right to contact friends and relatives unless a court says otherwise, and requires the state, department, and out-of-home provider to take specified support actions.
United States — Arizona
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This section lets the department or an authorized child welfare agency place children in licensed foster homes, and requires the department and foster homes to follow placement, disclosure, recordkeeping, and child-information rules.
United States — Arizona
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The division must place foster children with developmental disabilities in qualifying child developmental homes, with a limited best-interests exception. Regular foster homes must apply for certification as child developmental certified homes when specified conditions apply, except for certain pre-August 6, 2016 placem
United States — Arizona
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The department may place a child with certain caregivers, but emergency placements and parent placements require background-check steps, fingerprint submission, and related safeguards.
United States — Arizona
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This section requires the department to run kinship foster care services, sets applicant screening requirements, and requires notices, procedures, and nonfinancial support for eligible families.
United States — Arizona
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This section establishes the kinship care program and requires the department to set up rules, promote the program, and keep obtained information confidential.