Department Contracted Foster/Pre-adoptive Parents

The Department may utilize foster or adoptive care agencies licensed under the laws of the Commonwealth to provide foster/pre-adoptive services to children in Department care or custody. When it does so, the contracted foster/pre-adoptive homes must comply with the standards set forth at 110 CMR 7.100(3) and (4), 7.103 and 7.104. The Department reserves the right, through its procurement and contracting process, to further define standards that the contracted foster/pre-adoptive homes must meet, such as further limiting the number of children that may be placed in a foster/pre-adoptive home, or requiring additional skills of the foster/pre-adoptive parents.