Alaska Administrative Code › Title 7 - Health and Social Services › Part 4 - Children's Services and Juvenile Justice › Chapter 53 - Social Services › Article 5 - Residential Child Care Facility Grants › 7 AAC 53.999 - Definitions and general provisions

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The definitions
				  in
				  7 AAC 50.990 apply to
				  7 AAC 53.901 - 7 AAC 53.999, except that the definitions in
				  (b) of this section control if an inconsistency exists.
(b) In
				  7 AAC 53.901 - 7 AAC 53.999,
(1) "cost-of-living allowance" means a
				  percentage change in cost per bed, as set by the annual state operating budget
				  request instructions prepared by the office of management and budget in the
				  office of the Governor;
(2)
				  "commissioner" means the commissioner of health;
(3) "credit" means an entry on the right-hand
				  side of an account to show in addition to a revenue, net worth, or liability
				  account;
(4) "day treatment" means
				  an intensive program of rehabilitative activities, conducted in a structured,
				  supervised manner, serving adolescents with behavioral and emotional problems
				  and the natural families or foster families of those adolescents; "day
				  treatment" includes an individual service plan for each adolescent, and
(A) training and counseling in basic living
				  skills, interpersonal skills, and problem-solving skills;
(B) academic and physical
				  education;
(C) recreation;
				  and
(D) counseling for the
				  adolescent and the adolescent's foster family and natural family, aimed at
				  alleviating the behavioral or emotional problems of the adolescent;
(5) "debit" means an entry on the
				  left-hand side of an account to show an addition to an expense or asset account
				  or a deduction from a revenue, net worth, or liability account;
(6) "department" means the Department of
				  Health;
(7) "emergency shelter
				  care" means temporary residential child care for children that are in immediate
				  danger in their present environment, and for children for whom the department
				  can find no other care for a short period of time;
(8) "general and administrative costs" means
				  costs that are incurred for common or joint objectives, and are not readily
				  subject to treatment as a direct cost;
(9) "intensive residential treatment program"
				  means residential child care for children with severe emotional or behavioral
				  disorders that cause them to be a danger to themselves or others, provided on a
				  24-hour-a-day basis, in a highly structured, secure program designed to meet
				  the needs of children that
(A) have attempted
				  or threatened suicide;
(B) have
				  committed or attempted assault or other offenses against persons;
(C) have repeatedly committed or attempted
				  property offenses;
(D) have
				  repeatedly run away; or
(E) have
				  engaged in a combination of these behaviors;
(10) "placement of a child" means securing
				  admission of a child to a facility;
(11) "project" means
(A) an activity of a grantee or proponent
				  that requires expenditure of money or use of assets, and that is governed by
				  the terms of a single grant, contract, trust agreement, or endowment;
				  or
(B) an activity such as lobbying
				  or fund-raising that is administered by the grantee or proponent, and that is
				  not a service that directly supports child care activities;
(12) "proponent" means a nonprofit
				  organization or a municipal agency that submits a residential child care
				  facility grant proposal;
(13)
				  "related organization" means an organization that is operated, supervised, or
				  controlled by, or in connection with, a grantee; an organization is considered
				  a related organization if
(A) more than 40
				  percent of the organization's trustees or directors are directors or employees
				  of the grantee or are related within the second degree of consanguinity or
				  affinity to directors or employees of the grantee; or
(B) the grantee is paying the organization
(i) installment payments or rent for an asset
				  that the grantee owned in the past; or
(ii) interest on a loan that the grantee used
				  to repurchase an asset that the grantee owned in the past;
(14) "related party" means
(A) a person in a fiduciary relationship to
				  the grantee or to a related organization, and includes a director, trustee, or
				  officer of the grantee or related organization; or
(B) a person related within the second degree
				  of consanguinity or affinity to a person in a fiduciary relationship to the
				  grantee or to a related organization;
(15) "residential child care facility grant"
				  or "grant" means a grant described in
				  7 AAC 53.901 - 7 AAC 53.999;
(16) "residential child care facility
				  grantee" or "grantee" means a proponent that receives a grant under
				  7 AAC 53.901 - 7 AAC 53.999; and
(17) "specialized residential care" means
				  residential child care for children with moderate to serious emotional and
				  behavioral problems, provided on a 24-hour-a-day basis, in a highly structured
				  integrated program of specialized treatment designed to meet the special needs
				  of those children.