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5101:2-48-06
Adoption agency staffing.
Effective Date: September 1, 2003.
Most current prior effective date: 5/14/98
(A) A public children services agency (PCSA),
private child placing agency (PCPA), or private noncustodial agency (PNA) that
engages in the provision of adoption services shall employ or have under
contract an assessor who is responsible for performing the following duties:
(1) Works with parents, guardians or persons
having custody of a child who express the intent to surrender their child for
adoption.
(2) Works with persons seeking to adopt a
child, including but not limited to, completing home studies on prospective
adoptive applicants and completing prefinalization adoption assessments.
(3) Initiates the adoptive placement or
supervises the adoptive placement.
(4) Completes the final copy of the social
and medical history JFS 01616 "Social and Medical
History" with the biological parents of the adopted person which
shall be filed with the court.
(B) The PCSA, PCPA, or PNA shall assure that
employees or persons under contract with its agency meet the following assessor
qualifications:
(1) Complies with the assessor requirements
definition contained in rule 5101:2-1-01 of the Administrative Code.
(2) Completes or has completed the prescribed Ohio
Department of Job and Family Services Ohio department of
job and family services (ODJFS)level one tier
one assessor educational training within six months of the date of hire or
entering into a contract with an agency. If the employee or contractor is
performing assessor duties prior to completion of the required training, the
agency shall ensure that the employee or contractor is supervised by an
assessor. An assessor who fails to complete the training within six months of
the date of hire or contract is not authorized to conduct any further
assessments until the training requirements are properly met.
(3) Completes or has completed the prescribed
ODJFS level two tier two assessor
educational training to renew their assessor status within three years of
completion of level one tier
one assessor educational training. An assessor who fails to complete the
required training within the three year time
frame years is not authorized to conduct any further
assessments until the training requirements are properly met unless an
extension of no more than one year is granted by the agency's director due to
justifiable organizational circumstances which impede the ability of the
assessor to attend offered training. Such an extension must be documented on a
signed JFS 01680 "Verification of Adoption Assessor Qualifications".
(4) The PCSA, PCPA or PNA shall verify
compliance with paragraph (B) of this rule by completing the JFS 01680 "Verification
of Adoption Assessor Qualifications" for each employee or
individual under contract with the agency to perform adoption assessor duties.
This document shall be kept in the agency personnel records with a copy
given to the assessor and another copy sent to the ODJFS adoption services
section. An assessor must be able to produce a copy of the JFS 01680 upon
request.
(C)A student working on a post-secondary
degree and supervised by an adoption assessor is not required to complete the
ODJFS assessor educational training.
Effective: 09/01/2003
R.C. 119.032 review dates: 05/01/2003 and 09/01/2008
Certification
Date 07/08/2003
Promulgated Under: 119.03
Statutory Authority: 3107.032, 5153.16
Rule Amplifies: 3107.032, 5153.16
Prior Effective Dates: 7/01/90, 9/01/94, 12/15/95 (Emer.), 3/1/96, 9/18/96,
12/31/96 (Emer.), 3/31/97,
2/13/98 (Emer.), 5/14/98
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