Current through Pa Acts 2024-53, 2024-56 through 2024-92
Section 2624 - Resource family adoption interview process(a) Interview.--A resource family parent or parents shall be given an interview with the appropriate county or private agency when all of the following occur: (1) The county or private agency that placed the child with that resource family has changed the child's goal from foster care to adoption.(2) The resource family parent is interested in becoming an adoptive resource for that child.(3) The child has resided with that resource family for six months or more.(b) Resource family parent interview.--In addition to information obtained from interviews of other prospective adoptive families, the interviewing agency shall convey information obtained from the interview with the resource family parent to the county agency responsible for making the determination as to adoptive placement of the child.(c) Consideration of more than one adoptive resource.--When more than one adoptive resource is available for the placement of a child, the county agency shall document its reasons for placing the child with the selected adoptive parents in the child's case record.(d) Certain concerns not to be considered.--No resource parent who meets the conditions set forth in subsection (a) shall be denied consideration as an adoptive parent solely because of the inability to access that individual as a resource family parent in the future. 2005 , Nov. 16, P.L. 376, No. 68, §4, effective in 60 days [ 1/17/2006].