Separate Licensing Standards for Relative or Kinship Foster Family Homes

The Administration for Children and Families proposed to revise the definition of "foster family home" to allow each title IV-E agency to adopt foster family home licensing or approval standards for foster family homes of individuals related to a child by blood, marriage or adoption and other individuals who have an emotionally significant relationship with the child, including fictive kin, that differ from nonrelative foster family homes agency standards