Review or Update Acceptance Criteria

Process: Record a home study

The provider's record includes the provider's preferences concerning the characteristics of the children that may be placed in the home, as well as the number and of age of children. This information is required on the home study.

Review, and update if necessary, these preferences as follows:

  1. From the Maintain Home Study Information screen, click the Acceptance Criteria Information link. The Acceptance Criteria Information screen appears.

  2. Click Maintain Acceptance Criteria. The Acceptance Criteria Information screen appears. It lists the acceptance criteria records in the system for each provider type.

  3. Click the Add Characteristics button, (or click Edit or View link for the acceptance criteria record you want to review. You can edit only the records whose status is "In Progress.") The system defaults to the Characteristics tab; the Acceptance Characteristics List screen appears.

  4. Review the information. To see the characteristics, select the type of characteristic in the Select Group field, then click Show.

  5. Click Save if you have made updates or Cancel if you have not. You are returned to the Acceptance Characteristics List screen.

  6. Click Usage Placement Criteria tab. The Usage Placement Criteria screen appears. This tab displays the provider's preference concerning the number of children this provider can accept and their ages.

  7. Click the Add Criteria button, (or select edit or view link for the placement criteria record you want to review. You can edit only the records whose status is "In Progress.") The Criteria screen appears.

  8. Select Provider Type. Click the Add button to add new placement criteria or Edit to update an existing placement criteria record, make the updates on the Usage Placement Criteria Information screen, then click OK. You are returned to the Criteria screen.

  9. Click Save if you have made updates or Cancel if you have not. You are returned to the Usage Placement Criteria screen.

  10. Click Close. You are returned to the Acceptance Criteria Information screen.

  11. Click Close. You are returned to the Maintain Home Study Information screen.

  12. Click Next Task below to continue with the home study.