NAC424.300. Approval required for person providing professional care to child to be foster parent for child.

If an applicant or a foster parent is providing professional care directly to a child in the custody of the agency which provides child welfare services, the applicant or foster parent can only be a foster parent for that child with the approval of the Administrator or the designee of the Administrator. Persons providing professional care include, but are not limited to:

     1. A minister who is counseling the child.

     2. A psychiatrist or psychologist who is treating the child.

     3. A social worker or mental health counselor who is counseling the child.

     4. The child’s probation officer.

     5. The child’s teacher.

     6. A physician who is treating the child.

     7. The guardian ad litem for the child.

     8. The child’s attorney.

     9. A person who is responsible for the child in his capacity as an employee providing child welfare services as defined in NRS 432B.044.

     [Welfare Div., Req. for Foster Care § 104.3, 10-7-88, eff. 1-1-89]—(NAC A by Div. of Child & Fam. Services by R066-99, 11-8-99; R044-02, 7-23-2002)