Local departments and licensed child-placing agencies shall provide independent living services to any person between 18 and 21 years of age who is in the process of transitioning from foster care to self-sufficiency. Any person who was committed or entrusted to a local board or licensed child-placing agency may choose to discontinue receiving independent living services any time before his twenty-first birthday in accordance with regulations adopted by the Board. The local board or licensed child-placing agency shall restore independent living services at the request of that person provided that (i) the person has not yet reached 21 years of age and (ii) the person has entered into a written agreement, less than 60 days after independent living services have been discontinued, with the local board or licensed child-placing agency regarding the terms and conditions of his receipt of independent living services.
Local departments and licensed child-placing agencies shall provide independent living services to any person between 18 and 21 years of age who (a) was in the custody of the local department of social services immediately prior to his commitment to the Department of Juvenile Justice, (b) is in the process of transitioning from a commitment to the Department of Juvenile Justice to self-sufficiency, and (c) provides written notice of his intent to receive independent living services and enters into a written agreement for the provision of independent living services, which sets forth the terms and conditions of the provision of independent living services, with the local board or licensed child-placing agency within 60 days of his release from commitment to the Department of Juvenile Justice.
Local departments shall provide any person who chooses to leave foster care or terminate independent living services before his twenty-first birthday written notice of his right to request restoration of independent living services in accordance with this section by including such written notice in the person's transition plan. Such transition plan shall be created within 90 days prior to the person's discharge from foster care. Local departments and licensed child-placing agencies may provide independent living services as part of the foster care services provided to any child 14 years of age or older. All independent living services shall be provided in accordance with regulations adopted by the Board.
2004, c. 196; 2008, cc. 187, 475, 483; 2010, c. 257; 2013, cc. 5, 362, 564; 2014, cc. 94, 134.
Structure Code of Virginia
Title 63.2 - Welfare (Social Services)
§ 63.2-900.1. Kinship foster care
§ 63.2-900.2. Placement of sibling groups; visitation
§ 63.2-900.3. School placement of children in foster care
§ 63.2-901. Supervision of placement of children in homes
§ 63.2-901.1. Criminal history and central registry check for placements of children
§ 63.2-902. Agreements with persons taking children; dispute resolution; appeals
§ 63.2-903. Entrustment agreements; adoption
§ 63.2-904.1. Intervention by Commissioner; corrective action plans; assumption of temporary control
§ 63.2-904.2. Complaint system
§ 63.2-905. Foster care services
§ 63.2-905.1. Independent living services
§ 63.2-905.2. Security freezes and annual credit checks for children in foster care
§ 63.2-905.3. Documents provided to foster care youth
§ 63.2-905.5. Survey of children aging out of foster care
§ 63.2-906. Foster care plans; permissible plan goals; court review of foster children
§ 63.2-906.1. Qualified residential treatment programs
§ 63.2-907. Administrative review of children in foster care
§ 63.2-908. Permanent foster care placement
§ 63.2-909. Child support for child placed in foster care by court
§ 63.2-910.1. Acceptance of children by local departments of social services
§ 63.2-910.2. Petition to terminate parental rights
§ 63.2-911. Liability insurance for foster parents
§ 63.2-912. Visitation of child placed in foster care
§ 63.2-913. Establishment of minimum training requirements
§ 63.2-913.1. Caseload standard
§ 63.2-915. Appeals to Commissioner
§ 63.2-916. Notice of developmental disabilities
§ 63.2-917. Fostering Futures program; established
§ 63.2-919. Fostering Futures program; eligibility
§ 63.2-920. Continuing services and support
§ 63.2-922. Termination of voluntary continuing services and support agreement; notice; appeal