Specifications include, but are not limited to: The purpose of this grant is to help support the recruitment of high-quality foster parents by Indiana’s Licensed Child Placing Agencies (LCPAs). DCS recognizes the critical role that LCPAs play in locating, training, licensing, and supporting high-quality foster parents around the state, and is issuing this grant application to provide resources for LCPAs to improve, enhance, and develop new recruitment initiatives, particularly as they may relate to locating foster parents who are willing to foster youth with challenges related to their mental health, emotional health, physical health, and behavioral health. DCS hopes that this grant application helps identify and license foster parents who are able to provide the necessary safety and stability for these youth to make progress in their treatment and improve their overall functioning and well-being. In addition, DCS hopes that these grant funds can help improve the placement stability and timeliness of permanency attainment, particularly is it relates to reunification, of the foster youth of the state. In addition, DCS hopes that these grant funds will help reduce the state’s usage of residential treatment and group-care settings while better ensuring all Hoosier children have safe, stable, and family-based homes in which to live. Applications that speak to addressing these specific goals will be given special consideration.
