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Requirements to Foster
In addition to the 27 hour pre-service training, the following is a checklist of required information for the licensure of all prospective foster/adoptive parents.
Your licensing agency worker will work with you to collect the following items for the completion of your home study. In addition, 10 hours of in-service training is required every year. These trainings will enable you to become better able to provide a healing home for the abused and/or neglected children who join your family.
State of Virginia General Provider Approval Requirements (PDF)
- Foster/Adopt Application
- Criminal Background Check
- Central Registry (CPS) Background Search
- Corporal Punishment Agreement
- Confidentiality Agreement
- Acknowledgement Form
- Current Driver's License
- DMV Driving Record
- Proof of Current Car Insurance Coverage Policy
- Proof of Current Health Insurance Coverage Policy
- Proof of Life Insurance Policy (required to adopt)
- Doctor's Health Statement
- Current Tuberculosis (TB) Screening Test Results for all household members
- Marriage Certificate and/or Divorce Decree (if applicable)
- Copy of Most Recent Pay Stub/or Most Recent Federal Tax Return
- List of Monthly Expenses and Income
- Statement of Current Home Value and Amount of Current Mortgage
- List of 3 Personal References With Current Contact Information
- Completed Home Study (to be completed by agency worker)
- Household Fire Evacuation Plan
- Agency specific forms
- Complete Background Checks for all household members
Yearly Service Training
In addition, each Resource parent is required to attend a minimum of 10 hours of in-service training per year. In-service trainings are provided by the agency at no cost to its resource families.
Examples of such trainings are:
- Parenting/Supporting Children exposed to trauma
- CPR
- Love and Logic Parenting
- Teen Care
- Medication Management
- Working with your Child's School
- Yoga to help treat Trauma
- Legal Aspects of Foster Care