9 CAR § 40-802. Resource home recruitment and retention

(a)(1) The Division of Children and Family Services will recruit enough resource families to ensure that all children are placed in the least-restrictive, most family-like setting that meets each child’s individual needs. (2) Recruitment should result in an increased number of qualified, trained resource families in Arkansas. (3) The division will diligently recruit potential resource families that reflect the ethnic and racial diversity of children in care. (b)(1) Targeted recruitment will take place for resource parents who are willing and able to meet special needs of children needing placement. (2) Targeted recruitment will begin with a diligent search and assessment of each youth’s relatives and fictive kin as placement potentials, both at the initial removal from the family home and continuing throughout the dependency-neglect case.