The FAD worker must inform foster or adoptive parents that the parents must provide information about a child’s sexual history (contained in the child’s sexual history report, Attachment A) to any of the following:

• Alternate caregivers.
• Unauthorized placements.
• Temporary placements. This includes when a child is placed in a psychiatric hospital or is in the custody of juvenile detention.

FAD workers must ensure that alternate caregivers, unauthorized placements, or temporary placements have certified the receipt of the child’s sexual history information by signing Form 2279b Certification of Receipt of Child Abuse or Child Sexual Aggression InformationWord Document.

An alternate caregiver is someone who is routinely responsible for direct care, supervision, guidance, and protection of a child or youth in care, but is not the foster parent of the child or youth. Alternate caregivers do not include school personnel, mentors, tutors, and chaperones.

If the alternate caregiver or temporary placement refuses to sign Form 2279b, then the caseworker writes “refused to sign” on the signature line and the date.

Caregiver

A caregiver is a person, including an employee, foster parent, adoptive parent, contract service provider, or volunteer, whose day-to-day responsibilities include direct care, supervision, guidance, and protection of a child or youth in care. This includes employees and contract staff who provide 24-hour awake night supervision.

Generally, and in furtherance of a child or youth having as normal of a life experience as possible while in substitute care, a caregiver does not include a person who is not routinely responsible for direct care, supervision, guidance, and protection of a child or youth in care. This includes school personnel, mentors, tutors, and chaperones.

Determining what information to provide an adult involved with a child or youth’s normalcy activity (for example, an extracurricular activity, part-time job, church activity, school field trip, or visit to a friend’s house) must be considered on a case-by-case basis. The person making such a decision must keep in mind the confidential nature of the information and the need to balance the child or youth’s privacy.

Depending on the history and age of the child or youth and the situation in which the child or youth may engage in a normalcy activity, the involved adult may not need to know the child or youth’s history. Examples include a tutor periodically at the child or youth’s placement or an adult chaperone on a school field trip.

The FAD worker provides Form 2279b to the child’s primary DFPS caseworker or single source continuum contractor (SSCC) caseworker.

For planned, routine alternate caregivers, the FAD worker may collect Form 2279b in advance.

For unplanned temporary placements, such as psychiatric hospitalization or juvenile detention, the FAD worker must do the following:

• Obtain signatures on Form 2279b within 24 hours of receiving serious incident notification.
• Provide Form 2279b to the primary caseworker within three business days.