§ 1208.3-7 - Children served.

(a) Identification of individual children to receive supportive person-to-person services from a Foster Grandparent is a responsibility of volunteer station professional staff and will be made in accordance with criteria specified in § 1208.3-6. Actual Foster Grandparent assignments to individual children and a determination of the length of time each child should receive such services will be made with concurrence of the sponsor or his or her designee, usually the project director, in accordance with the Memorandum of Understanding described in § 1208.3-1(l).

(b) Foster Grandparent concurrence with assignments to individual children is required.

(c) Preference will be given to assigning Foster Grandparents to young children. Each Foster Grandparent shall preferably, but not exclusively, be assigned to two children.

(d) When a Foster Grandparent is assigned to a mentally retarded child, that assignment may continue beyond the child's 21st birthday, provided:

(1) That such child was receiving such services prior to attaining the chronological age of 21;

(2) That the public or private nonprofit agency (volunteer station) responsible for providing services to the child determines that it is in the best interest of both the Foster Grandparent and the child; and

(3) There is mutual agreement by all parties with respect to provision of services to the child involved.