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1. Are you
twenty five years of age or older?
2. Are you physically and
emotionally able to care for a child?
3. Are all of the adults
in your home willing to have a TB test?
4. Are all of the adults
in your home willing to have a criminal and child abuse
clearance?
5. Are all members of your
household interested and prepared to care for a child?
6. Do you have sufficient
income to cover your family's needs and provide
for the foster child's basic needs until you are
reimbursed? (Reimbursements occur in the month following
care.)
7.
Do you have enough bedroom space in your home for everyone,
including another child?
.
Everyone in the
home must sleep in a bedroom and in their own, age
appropriate bed.
.
No bedroom may be a pass through
to another room.
.
No more than two children
may sleep in one bedroom.
.
Children over the age of
two may not share a bedroom with an adult.
.
Children over the age of five
may not share a bedroom with a child of the opposite
sex.
8. Do you have UL listed and operating smoke detectors installed in your hallways and bedrooms?
9. If you have weapons
and ammunition in your home, are they locked in separate
locations?
10. If you have barred windows,
are there breakaway bars on at least one window in each
bedroom?
11. Will you be able to obtain First
Aid and an age-appropriate CPR certificate?
12. If you have a pool,
spa and/or other bodies of water (fountain, pond, etc.)
are they fenced,
13. Are all of the medicines
in your home locked up? Can they be?
14. Can all hazardous items
in your home be made inaccessible?
15. Can all poisons in your
home be locked up?
16. Are you willing to formally
agree not to use any type of corporal punishment on a
foster child?
17. Are you willing to provide
full time supervision to every foster child in your home
regardless of age?
18. Do your animals have
shots & a license?
