12.2.3 Recruitment Bonus

Legal Authority

When an applicant, who becomes approved as a resource home parent to provide foster care services, names a current resource home parent as the referral source on the TRIS intake form, the referring resource home parent receives:

A $100 bonus for each resource home that is approved for the first of two new resource homes;
A $150 bonus for the third and fourth new resource home;
A $200 bonus for the fifth and sixth resource home; and
After the sixth resource home, the bonus is $250 for each newly approved resource home.

A resource parent who is an active and paid member of the Foster/Adoptive Training Support Network is ineligible to receive the recruitment bonus.

The R&C worker:

Completes a memo of approval requesting that a resource family receive a recruitment bonus after a family the current resource family referred becomes an approved resource;
Submits the memo to the FSOS for approval;
Attaches a copy of the Foster and Adoptive Parent (FAP) TRIS Intake Form, showing the referring resource home parent as the referral source, and a copy of the approval letter sent to the new resource home; and
Submits the approved memo and attachments to the Billing Specialist.