| (a) If a caregiver is absent from the home on an extended
basis as a condition of the caregiver's employment or military service,
you must prorate the caregiver's annual training requirements based
on the number of months out of the year that the caregiver will be
at the home. If a caregiver is absent for an entire year, the caregiver
is exempt for the annual training hours for that year.
(b) A child-placing agency, including a single source
continuum contractor, may waive certain annual training requirements
for a foster parent or for a foster home as described in subsection
(c) of this section if:
(1) The foster parent or foster home has been verified
by the child-placing agency the previous two years; and
(2) During that timeframe, the child-placing agency
was not cited for any deficiencies related to the foster parent or
the foster home and there are no pending allegations related to the
foster parent or the foster home.
(c) For a foster parent or foster home that meets the
requirements described in subsection (b) of this section, the agency
may waive the following types of training upon determining that the
training is not directly related to the care of any foster child in
the home:
(1) Emergency behavior intervention;
(2) Trauma informed care; or
(3) Normalcy.
(d) A child-placing agency that waives certain annual
training requirements for a foster home under subsection (c) of this
section may waive the training for one or both foster parents and
any other caregiver in the home.
(e) A child-placing agency may not waive a foster parent's
annual training for emergency behavior intervention, trauma informed
care, or normalcy during consecutive years.
(f) You must document the basis of the exemption, proration,
or waiver in the appropriate foster home record or personnel record.
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