OAR 413-200-0281. Informal Respite Care and Child Care

(1) The certifier must undertake all of the following activities: (a) Discuss with the resource parent the plan for providing care to a child placed in the home when the resource parent may be unavailable to provide care. (b) For any prospective informal respite care provider or child care provider, assure completion of a criminal records check as outlined in OAR 413-208-0000 to 413-208-0035, unless the provider is a child care facility. (c) Document the information considered and the results of any fitness determination on a form approved by the Department. (d) For any prospective informal respite care provider or child care provider, conduct child abuse history background checks, unless the provider is a child care facility. (e) Initiate out of state child abuse history background checks if the prospective informal respite care or child care provider has lived outside the state of Oregon in the previous five years. (f) When a prospective informal respite provider or child care provider has been identified as the perpetrator or alleged perpetrator, or respondent of abuse in a child protective services assessment in a founded disposition, substantiated disposition, unable to determine disposition, or inconclusive disposition for abuse to a child or a similar disposition from another division of the Department, agency or state, consult with the certification supervisor about whether to seek approval from the Child Welfare Program Manager: (A) If the decision is to seek approval, the Child Welfare Program Manager must consider the information and safety concerns and may approve or deny continuing the determination of the informal respite care or child care provider; (B) The decision, and the information assessed, must be documented on a form approved by the Department. (g) When informal respite care or child care will be provided in the home of the informal respite care or child care provider, assure the activities described in subsections (b) through (e) of this section are complete for all adults living in the home of the informal respite care or child care provider. An informal respite care provider or child care provider may be conditionally approved by a Child Welfare Program Manager or designee prior to the results from the fingerprint-based criminal offender records check of national crime information databases. The approval must be documented on form approved by the Department. (h) Analyze information gathered under subsections (a) to (f) of this section prior to determining the individual is safe and appropriate to provide informal respite care or child care or approving the individual to provide informal respite care or child care. (i) Document the analysis required under subsection (g) of this section in the Department’s electronic information system. (j) Notify the resource parent of the determination of whether the individual is authorized to provide informal respite care or child care. (k) Verify that any resource parent identified to provide certified respite care or child care for another resource parent has a current certification. (l) The Department may disapprove a prospective informal respite care provider or child care provider even if the provider has a positive fitness determination. (2) If the informal respite care provider or child care provider has a disqualifying conviction under OAR 413-208-0015 (3) or (4) or the authorized designee makes a negative fitness determination with respect to the informal respite care or child care provider, the provider may not provide care.