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DHS proposes consolidated adoption rule to streamline selection, placement and subsidies
Summary
Assistant Director Kristen Harper told the Senate Children and Youth Committee DHS will collapse separate adoption policies into one rule to standardize selection, prioritize relatives and sibling placements, formalize pre-placement practices, clarify adoption-subsidy extensions for disabilities and remove obsolete references to the Fostering Connections schedule.
Assistant Director Kristen Harper of the Division of Children and Family Services presented a proposed rule to streamline Arkansas’ adoption policy, combining separate rules for relative, nonrelative and current foster-parent adoptions into a single, unified rule.
Harper said the "most substantive change is collapsing formally separate rules into one regarding the adoption selection, preparation, and finalization processes," and added the rule would "emphasize preferential…
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