Library: Policy

317:30-5-1040. Foster Care Agency

Revised 1-14-10

     A Foster Care Agency is an agency that provides foster care as defined in the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) as “24-hour substitute care for children outside their own homes.”  Foster care settings include, but are not limited to, non-relative foster family homes, relative foster homes (whether payments are being made or not), group homes, emergency shelters, residential facilities, and pre-adoptive homes.