LP 1-Additionally, licensing staff conduct regular check-ins with relative placements to understand how they are feeling about taking other children and how things are going overall. This process supports a perception of trust that everything is going okay in the foster care home.  In this case, the provider was self-reporting that things were going well and that she could take an additional child and that she did not need additional support.  

Furthermore, this provider had taken care of a number if infants such as the subject child that were high needs and drug exposed.  As a result, staff were confident in her ability to take another child.