§ 1062.31.Rights of Ffas

This section states the legislative reasoning behind the whole chapter. It declares that foster family agencies and noncustodial adoption agencies, referred to together as FFAs, provide necessary services to vulnerable youth throughout the state and are integral to the foster care system.

Because of that role, the statute affords FFAs the specific rights set out elsewhere in this chapter, most concretely the liability allocation described in § 1062.33. This is a policy statement, not an operative rule on its own, but it frames how the substantive protections that follow should be understood and applied.