170-E:51 Collaboration Between the Department of Health and Human Services and Foster Parents. – The general court finds that foster parents providing care for children who are in the custody of the department of health and human services play an integral, indispensable, and vital role in the department's effort to care for dependent children displaced from their homes. The general court further finds that it is in the best interest of the department of health and human services to acknowledge foster parents as active and participating members of this system and to support them through the following foster parent rights, as primary caregivers for children in the care and custody of the state of New Hampshire. Source. 2018, 301:1, eff. Aug. 24, 2018.
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