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We will be getting 2 through Kinship ICPC from another state. However my DH and I had already talked about starting to get Foster Certified here in October when my job responsibilities change. So are you allowed to have Fosters kids from 2 different states at the same time? Or would we need to be the Kinship's legal guardian fully prior to doing local foster care??:thanks: :thanks:
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No need for the kids to be from the same state! Now, you wouldn't be "fostering for two different states," exactly, although you've described exactly what it seems like. Technically when ICPC happens, the child is transferred to your state, so you would be both kinship fostering and regular fostering for your own state. Of course, it varies, the extent to which you have contact with the other state. But, the short answer: yes you can! You just can't license in two states at once :)
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Are they from a bordering state that you will continue to work with? Just curious. You will be licensed in the state you live in and not where the kids are from, so that doesn't matter. My experience with MN has been they are quite strict about you only fostering kids in the county you live in (no private agencies except for therapeutic care) so you should examine what the situation is where you live. Obviously kinship care in an exception to that rule.
Perhaps. There seems to be a lot of variability in how much the sending state oversees things. But my experience has been that you are not licensed to foster by the sending state (I can assure you that if you were getting fully foster licensed in MA, you'd be doing classes--so you aren't an MA foster parent per say). So even if MA is monitoring you 100% for the kids they send, you aren't licensed there, if that makes sense.