Arizona Administrative Code › Title 21 - CHILD SAFETY › Chapter 7 - DEPARTMENT OF CHILD SAFETY - CHILD WELFARE AGENCY LICENSING › Article 1 - LICENSING REQUIREMENTS FOR A CHILD WELFARE AGENCY › Section R21-7-101 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 30, No. 28, July 12, 2024
In addition to the definitions contained in A.R.S. §
									8-501, the following definitions
				  apply in this Chapter:
1. "Abuse"
				means the same as in A.R.S. §
									8-201.
2. "Administrative Completeness Review Time
				Frame" means the same as in A.R.S. §
									41-1072.
3. "Adult" means any person 18 years of age
				or older.
4. "Adverse action" means
				a license denial, suspension, or revocation.
5. "After care" means services provided to a
				child in care after the child is discharged from a licensee's care and may also
				include services for the child's family.
6. "Agency" means a Child Welfare
				Agency.
7. "Amendment" means the
				addition, deletion, correction, or other change proposed or made to a
				license.
8. "Applicant" means a
				person or group of persons, including any individual with ownership interest,
				who submits an application to the Department to become licensed or to renew a
				license to operate a Child Welfare Agency.
9. "Behavior management" means the policy,
				procedure, and technique a licensee uses to control a child in care's conduct
				as prescribed in
				R21-7-227.
10. "Board of Directors" means a group of
				individuals elected to establish policies and jointly supervise the activities
				of an organization, and makes decisions on major company issues. An Agency's
				Board of Directors may also be referred to as a Governing Body.
11. "Calendar day" means all days, including
				weekends and Arizona state holidays.
12. "Central Registry" means the information
				maintained by the Department of substantiated reports of child abuse or neglect
				for the purposes of A.R.S. §
									8-804.
13. "Centralized Intake Hotline" means a
				dedicated unit established by the Department, under A.R.S. §
									8-455, to receive and process
				communications regarding suspected abuse or neglect of a child in the state of
				Arizona.
14. "Chief Executive
				Officer" or "CEO" means the person responsible for overall administration of a
				Child Welfare Agency. Depending on the type of organization, the Chief
				Executive Officer may also be referred to as the Executive Director,
				Administrator, or Director of the Agency, or any other title that refers to an
				individual who serves this function.
15. "Child" means any person less than 18
				years of age.
16. "Child in care"
				means a child that is placed in the physical custody of an Agency, licensee, or
				residential group care facility other than with the child's parent or
				guardian.
17. "Child Placement" or
				"placement activity" means the selection, by a person or agency other than the
				child's parent or guardian, of a foster family or prospective adoptive family,
				or effecting the movement of the child into the foster family or prospective
				adoptive family.
18. "Child Placing
				Agency" means any Child Welfare Agency that places children in foster homes for
				temporary care or in prospective adoptive homes for adoption. The children
				placed by the Child Placing Agency are not in the custody of the
				Department.
19. "Child safety
				worker" means the same as in A.R.S. §
									8-801.
20. "Corrective action" means a specific
				course of conduct an Agency shall follow to remedy violations of the licensing
				requirements prescribed in this Chapter within a specified period of
				time.
21. "Corrective Action Plan"
				means a written document describing an Agency's corrective action, as
				prescribed in
				R21-7-113.
22. "Criminal History self-disclosure" means
				a person's statement made under penalty of perjury, using the form approved by
				the Department, attesting to whether the person:
a. Has a record of any arrests, convictions,
				or pending indictments;
b. Has
				committed a crime specified in A.R.S. §
										41-1758.07 as a precluding crime
				for the issuance of a fingerprint clearance card meeting Level One
				requirements; or
c. Is a registered
				sex offender.