                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

CONTINUING SERVICES AND SUPPORT (§ 63.2-920)

Continuing services and support provided under the Fostering Futures program
shall include the following, where necessary:

1. Medical care under the state plan for medical assistance;

2. Housing, placement, and support in the form of continued foster care
maintenance payments in an amount not less than the rate set immediately prior
to the program participant&#8217;s exit from foster care. Policies and decisions
regarding housing options shall take into consideration the program
participant&#8217;s autonomy and developmental maturity, and safety assessments
of such living arrangements shall be age-appropriate and consistent with federal
guidance on supervised settings in which program participants live
independently. For program participants residing in an independent living
setting, the local department may send all or part of the foster care
maintenance payments directly to the program participant, as agreed upon by the
local department and the program participant. For program participants residing
in a foster family home, foster care maintenance payments shall be paid to the
foster parents; and

3. Case management services, including a case plan that describes (i) the
program participant&#8217;s housing or living arrangement; (ii) the resources
available to the program participant in the transition from the Fostering
Futures program to independent adulthood; and (iii) the services and support to
be provided to meet the program participant&#8217;s individual goals, provided
such services and support are appropriate for and consented to by the program
participant. All case plans shall be developed in consultation with the program
participant and, at the participant&#8217;s option, with up to two members of
the case planning team who are chosen by the program participant and are not a
foster parent of or caseworker for such program participant. An individual
selected by a program participant to be a member of the case planning team may
be removed from the team at any time if there is good cause to believe that the
individual would not act in the best interests of the program participant.

HISTORY: 2020, cc. 95, 732.