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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>72819</law_id><section_number>63.2-905</section_number><catch_line>Foster care services</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>2.2-5211</reference><reference>2.2-5212</reference><reference>63.2-911</reference><reference>63.2-915</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="63.2">Welfare (Social Services)</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="III">Social Services Programs</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="9">Foster Care</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="1">General Provisions</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>Foster care services are the provision of a full range of casework, treatment, and <span class="dictionary">community services</span>, including but not limited to <span class="dictionary">independent living services</span>, for a planned period of time to a <span class="dictionary">child</span> who is abused or neglected as defined in &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Definitions" href="/63.2-100/">63.2-100</a> or in need of services as defined in &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Definitions" href="/16.1-228/">16.1-228</a> and his family when the <span class="dictionary">child</span> (i) has been identified as needing services to prevent or eliminate the need for <span class="dictionary">foster care placement</span>, (ii) has been placed through an agreement between the <span class="dictionary">local board</span> or the public agency designated by the community policy and management team and the parents or guardians where legal <span class="dictionary">custody</span> remains with the parents or guardians, (iii) has been committed or entrusted to a <span class="dictionary">local board</span> or licensed <span class="dictionary">child</span> placing agency, or (iv) is living with a relative participating in the <span class="dictionary">Federal-Funded Kinship Guardianship Assistance program</span> set forth in &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Federal-Funded Kinship Guardianship Assistance program" href="/63.2-1305/">63.2-1305</a> and developed consistent with 42 U.S.C. &#xA7;&#xA0;673 or the <span class="dictionary">State-Funded Kinship Guardianship Assistance Program</span> set forth in &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="State-Funded Kinship Guardianship Assistance program" href="/63.2-1306/">63.2-1306</a>. Foster care services also include the provision and restoration of <span class="dictionary">independent living services</span> to a person who is over the age of 18 years but who has not yet reached the age of 21 years, in accordance with &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Independent living services" href="/63.2-905.1/">63.2-905.1</a>.</p></section></text><history>1977, cc. 562, 634, &#xA7; 63.1-55.8; 1986, c. 281; 1994, c. 865; 2002, c. 747; 2008, cc. 475, 483; 2013, c. 5; 2018, cc. 769, 770; 2021, Sp. Sess. I, c. 254.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
