Resource Family Approval Tools

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Resource Family Approval Protocols and Tools

CWDA Children’s Committee has developed the following to support counties’ implementation of RFA:

County Tools

Regularly Present Adult Framework – Resource Family Approval (RFA)

This guidance provides practical considerations to support professional judgment and consistent interpretation of the existing standard. The framework is designed to promote clear, defensible decision-making while preserving local discretion and aligning with current statute and Written Directives

 

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RFA Out of County Complaint Investigation Notification

Download the Out of County Compliant Notification Form

Forms/Guidelines

RFA Intercounty Protocol Assessments

The RFA Statewide Intercounty Protocol provides guidance to counties to request an Emergency Safety Assessment Request and a Resource Family Approval Assessment Request in a relative, nonrelative extended family member (NREFM) or extended family member in the case of Indian child, who resides in another county, per the current Written Directives.

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RFA Assessment Request Form

Download the RFA Out of County Assessment Request Form

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RFA Out of County Child Abuse Referral Notification

Download the RFA Out of County Child Abuse Referral Form

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RFA Out of County Protocol

The purpose of this Statewide Inter-county Protocol is to provide guidance to a county seeking the emergency assessment  and emergency placement of a child in a Resource Family Home and/or approval of a Resource Family home within the geographic boundaries of another county per the current Resource Family Approval Written Directives.

Download the RFA Out of County Protocol

County Tools

RFA Relocation and Conversion Transfer Form

Download RFA Relocation Form – June 20, 2018

County Tools

Out of County Sub-Arrest Notification
To the RFA Placing County

Download Subarrest Out of County Notification Template – June 20, 2018