R512-40-3. Recruitment of Adoptive Families for Children in the Custody of Child and Family Services

  (1) Child and Family Services seeks to recruit permanent adoptive families for children in state's custody whose primary permanency goal is adoption, or whose parents have voluntarily relinquished their parental rights or whose parental rights have been terminated by a court.

  (2) Recruitment of an adoptive family for children in state's custody is accomplished by:

  (a) Discussing with the adoptive applicant or relative caring for the child about adopting the child.

  (b) Targeting efforts to identify family members and others known to the child to consider adoption.

  (c) Coordinating with Child and Family Services resource family consultants throughout the state about potential adoptive families for a child.

  (d) Website listing of a child for whom there is not an identified adoptive family within 30 days of the primary permanency goal of adoption or whose parents' parental rights are terminated.

  (e) Requiring all licensed child placing adoption agencies in Utah to inform adoptive applicants that there are children in state's custody available for adoption in accordance with Section 62A-4a-607.