(a) Each intensive services foster care resource family selected to participate in the intensive services foster care program shall rent, lease, or own their own home.
(b) Unless approval is granted pursuant to subdivision (c), a licensed foster family agency operating an intensive services foster care program shall not have an interest in the property occupied by an intensive services foster care resource family.
(c) The department shall review and preapprove any public-private housing arrangements developed by a licensed foster family agency to address the unique needs of an intensive services foster care resource family and eligible child. The review shall ensure that the arrangement does not jeopardize the interests of the intensive services foster care resource family and eligible child. The arrangements shall comply with state and federal laws, including those pertaining to fiscal, licensing, and corporate requirements.
(Added by Stats. 2017, Ch. 732, Sec. 125. (AB 404) Effective January 1, 2018.)