The Administration shall provide child welfare services to a child and the child’s parent or guardian:
(1) to assist in preventing the necessity of placing the child outside of the child’s home;
(2) to reunite the child with the child’s parent or guardian after the child has been placed in foster care; or
(3) if the child has been placed in foster care and cannot return to the child’s parent or guardian, to develop and implement an alternative permanent plan for the child.
Structure Maryland Statutes
Subtitle 5 - Child Care; Foster Care
Part III - Child Welfare Services; Foster Care
Section 5-524 - Child Welfare Services
Section 5-525 - Out-of-Home Placement and Foster Care -- in General
Section 5-525.1 - Out-of-Home Placement and Foster Care -- Adoption
Section 5-525.2 - Out-of-Home Placement and Foster Care -- Sibling Placement and Visitation Rights
Section 5-527 - Out-of-Home Placement and Foster Care -- Rates
Section 5-527.1 - Protection of Resources of Child in State Custody
Section 5-528 - Out-of-Home Placement and Foster Care -- Reimbursement for Medical Costs
Section 5-530 - Out-of-Home Placement and Foster Care -- Adoption of Child Under Foster Care
Section 5-531 - Out-of-Home Placement and Foster Care -- Payment of Funeral Expenses
Section 5-532 - Rules and Regulations
Section 5-533 - Health Care Services by Residential Facilities for Children