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13 | On 2/15/2022 at 1130am, Licensing Program Analyst (LPA), Tana Kinder spoke with the Resource Family Agency Foster Parent Coordinator to deliver complaint investigation findings. Prior to the meeting, LPA Kinder reviewed the agency’s file at the licensing office, including the complaint history, criminal background check, incident reports and facility personnel report summary. LPA Horne conducted a video inspection of the facility inside and out, using the video platform, Facetime and no citations were issued. LPA Kinder conducted 3 interviews and Licensing Program Manager Rodrigez conducted 1 confidential interview between 1/28/2022-2/02/2022. LPA obtained and reviewed the following documents: Resource certificate of approval, facility sketch of the resource home, needs and services plan. The allegation is: Resource parent denied food to a child in the home as a form of punishment. Based on 4 confidential interviews conducted, the resource parent did not directly deny food to the youth in care. Multiple interviews stated the resource parent denied the adopted youth in the resource home food as a form of discipline. The resource parent would communicate the consequence in front of the foster youth. Continued... |