Resources
Know Your Rights and Responsibilities
- Rights of Resource Parents Flyer
- Resource Parents Responsibilities to the Child, the Birth Family, the Local Department of Social Services and Local Department of Social Services Responsibilities to Resource Parents Flyer
Code of Maryland Regulations
- Local Department of Social Services Resource Home Requirements 07.02.25 PDF | Webpage
- Adoption 07.02.12 PDF | Webpage
- Out of Home Placement 07.02.11 PDF | Webpage
Policies
- SSA 22-09 Health Care Services Oversight and Monitoring
- SSA 21-09 Resource Parent Home Standards
- SSA 21-06 Child Care Services for Foster children
- SSA 21-02 Family Teaming
- SSA 19-16 Guidelines for Foster Care Board Rate and Expenditures
- SSA 16-17 Reasonable & Prudent Parent Standard
- SSA 16-16 Family & Friend contact
- SSA 13-2 Case Planning/ Concurrent Permanency Planning
- SSA 12-1 Foster Care Liability
- SSA 11-10 Window Covering Safety for Resource Homes – Angels Law
- SSA 10-16 Smoke Free Environment for Children in Foster Care
- SSA 10-11 Placement Protocols for Children in Out of Home Placement
- SSA 08-21 Respite Care for Kinship Care Providers and Resource Families
- SSA 08-13 Foster parent cash award incentive
- SSA 06-12 Foster Parent/Caregiver Notification
- SSA 06-11 Child Placement Information Form
- Policy Library
Free Training for Current LDSS Resource Providers
- Child Welfare Academy
- Child Welfare Academy Summer 2022
- Child Welfare Academy Fall 2022 Training Calendar
- Fall Resoruce Parent Conference November 5, 2022
- Foster Parent College – Contact your resource home worker to get login information
- National Foster Parent Association Training Institute
Other Helpful Resources
- Provide Payment Hotline
- Direct Deposit Form
- Reasonable and Prudent Parenting Standard Fact Sheet
- Citizens Review Board for Children flyer for Foster parents
- Car seat safety
- Support for Parents Who Adopt from Foster Care
- Helping Children Connect with Birth Parents
- Helping Your Adopted Children Maintain Important Relationships with Family
- Childhood Trauma