ICPC State Pages

About the ICPC

The Association of Administrators of the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children (AAICPC) was established in 1974 and consists of members from all 50 states, the District of Columbia and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The AAICPC has authority under ICPC to "promulgate rules and regulations to carry out more effectively the terms and provisions of this compact." The AAICPC obtains its Secretariat Services, as an affiliate of the American Public Human Services Association (APHSA).

For more information, please visit the AAICPC website.

Contact the AAICPC

American Public Human Services Association
1133 Nineteenth Street, NW
Suite 400
Washington, DC 20036
(202) 682-0100
fax: (202) 289-6555

Web Manager: Carla Fults [cfults@aphsa.org]

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ICPC STATE Pages

Maryland

Office Hours: Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Eastern · Phone: Charles Gentemann, DCA, ICPC & ICAMA and Unit Supervisor (410) 767-7159 Cell 443-902-3435 and .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) · Fax:

Maryland Licensing/Certification/Approval

Licensing

Dual Licensing state:

Maryland uses the following terms to authorize a resource family for foster care and (or) adoption after completion of education and training in state:

Approve (Adoption)
Verified (Foster Home)

Maryland requires the following types of placement resources to be licensed/approved/certified:

Foster Care
Relative-Foster Care
Adoption

Maryland resource training program is as follows:

PRIDE (Parents Resource Information Development Education)
MAPP

PRIDE in 23 of 24 jurisdictions; MAPP in Baltimore City.

Maryland will give full or partial credit for foster care and adoption education and training completed in another state:

Adoption
Full Credit
Foster Care
Full Credit

Requirements (Licensing)

Licensing Requirements:

Maryland Foster and Adoption home studies fully comply with all federal regulations for these home studies and for federal IV-E funding purposes. The 100A form specifies which home study type is to be completed, Foster or Adoption (one or the other), per the specific request and permanency plan of the sending State and its sending State ICPC office and sent to the receiving State ICPC office of Maryland. Maryland licensed private adoption agencies and Local DSS Offices certify that a placement resource home is recommended for approval by sending a home study attesting to that, but no "certificates" are issued to this effect for ICPC home studies. The MD-ICPC approved 100A form indicates the date the home may have the child placed into it and the sending State's 100B form indicates the date the child is actually placed into the MD-ICPC-approved home. Annual re-evaluations of the Maryland placement resource home (or Recons) are completed on an annual basis by the MD agency/LDSS for continued re-aassessment/re-approval purposes of the home's use for Interstate placement of the child for whom the home was studied initially.

Foster Care Placements:

No Information Provided

Wait Time - (License/Certification/Approval - Education and Training)

Average Length of time it takes for a home to be licensed/approved/certified:

1-3 mos.

Length of time a license is valid before renewal required:

3 mos.

Maryland offers classes (education and training) for placement resources' homes to become licensed/certified/approved: