441—117.5(237) Application decisions. The department shall notify the applicant of its decision regarding the application for approval of in-service training within 30 days of receipt of the training materials described in rule 441—117.3(237). This notification shall include the reason for not giving approval if approval is denied.
	117.5(1) Approval. Foster parent training programs which meet the criteria in rule 441—117.1(237) or in rule 441—117.7(237) and which are submitted pursuant to rules 441—117.3(237) and 441—117.4(237) shall be approved by the department. In-service training completed before the program has received department approval shall not count toward the required six credit hours of in-service training. In-service training approvals are valid for one year.
	117.5(2) Reserved.
	117.5(3) Denial. Preservice training programs which do not meet the requirements in rules 441—117.1(237), 441—117.3(237), and 441—117.4(237) and in-service training programs which do not meet the criteria in rules 441—117.3(237), 441—117.4(237) and 441—117.7(237) shall be denied approval. The applicant may submit a revised program for approval at a later date.
	117.5(4) Revocation. Approval shall be revoked when any of the following exist and corrective action is not taken to correct the deficiencies within 45 days.
	a. 	The training provider fails to provide the training as described in the approved application materials.
	b. 	Over 25 percent of the participant evaluations of the training program rate the training program as not helpful.
If approval is revoked, the training provider may submit a revised program at a later date.
[ARC 8010B, IAB 7/29/09, effective 10/1/09; ARC 6715C, IAB 11/30/22, effective 2/1/23]