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(c) Applicants will not smoke in the family foster home or in the vehicle while transporting foster children. Furthermore, guests will not be allowed to smoke in the family foster home or in any vehicle while transporting children. (d) Applicants will coordinate legal and safe transportation to and from health care, therapy, and agency appointments; school; extracurricular activities; social events; and scheduled meetings or visitation with parents, siblings, extended family members, and friends. (e) Applicants will confirm that if a privately-owned vehicle, owned by the applicants, family or friends, is used to transport the child in foster care, it must be inspected (if applicable under state or tribal law), registered, and insured, and meet all applicable state or tribal requirements to be an operable vehicle on the road. (i) The driver will have a valid driver’s license. (ii) Safety restraints will be used that are appropriate to the child’s age, height, and weight. (iii) Weapons must not be transported in any vehicle in which the child is riding unless the weapons are made inoperable and inaccessible. (f) Applicants may need to take additional steps for the safety of the child in foster care, depending on the home, the area in which it is located, and the age and any cognitive and behavioral challenges of the child. For example, applicants may be required to child proof their home to prevent the child from accessing hazards. (g) Applicants will adhere to the reasonable and prudent parent standard as defined and set forth in S.C. Code sections 63–7–20, 63–7–25, and 63–7–2310. (2) The agency or the child placing agency will review the assurances agreement with the foster parents and adoptive parents at initial licensing and approval and when a child is placed in their care. Additionally, the agency or child placing agency will review the assurances agreement with foster parents annually thereafter. R. Pre-License and Adoptive Home Training Standards. (1) All applicants must complete at least 15 hours of pre-license and adoptive home training on care of the child. (2) Pre-license training topics must include: (a) An overview of the child welfare system: (i) Legal rights, roles, responsibilities and expectations of foster parents and adoptive parents; (ii) Agency purpose, policies, and services; (iii) Courts, and applicable laws and regulations. (b) Information, including, but not limited to, trauma concepts and behavioral management, to provide for the needs of the child who is or may be placed in the home; early learning; child and adolescent brain development; healthy eating; protective factors; child abuse and neglect preven- tion; grief, loss, trauma, and separation issues; independent living skills; internet and social media safety for kids; sex trafficking prevention and warning signs; and first aid (including cardiopulmo- nary resuscitation (CPR) for the ages of children in placement, and bloodborne pathogen. (3) Foster parents will subsequently be required to complete at least fifteen (15) hours training each year, or thirty (30) hours prior to each subsequent license renewal (4) Viewing standard television programs or reading popular news or magazine articles will not be accepted for training hours. The training shall be provided by SCDSS or another source approved by SCDSS. S. Emergency Placement Standards. (1) A child may be placed in a home on an emergency basis pending licensure for a maximum of ninety calendar days with kin. The applicants must agree to complete the full assessment and approval process for a family foster home license within ninety calendar days. For emergency placements of American Indian and Alaska Native children, agencies should work closely with tribal and urban Indian organizations that have expertise in recruiting and licensing tribal family foster care homes. (2) The agency must complete the following prior to approving an emergency placement: