OAR 416-530-0000: Purpose

(1) OYA seeks to ensure community safety, adjudicated youth accountability and adjudicated youth reformation by providing adjudicated youth foster care as an integral part of its continuum of services. OYA provides foster care for adjudicated youth who are 12 years of age through the age of 24. These rules establish OYA foster care standards for: (a) The certification and re-certification process for foster parents; (b) The standards that foster parents must meet while providing adjudicated youth foster care services under the OYA Foster Care Program; and (c) The process by which a certification to maintain an adjudicated youth foster home may be placed on inactive referral status, terminated, suspended, or revoked. (2) These rules apply to applicants seeking OYA certification, certified foster parents and respite providers, and Private Child-caring Agency proctor parents unless otherwise specified.