12.2.3 Recruitment Bonus

Introduction

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Practice Guidance

  • 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 fo​r 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.​

Procedure

​​The R&C worker:
  1. 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; 
  2. Submits the memo to the FSOS for approval; 
  3. 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 
  4. Submits the approved memo and attachments to the Billing Specialist.

Revisions