Hawaii Administrative Rules › Title 17 - DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES › Department of Human Services › Chapter 1627 - LICENSING OF CHILD - CARING INSTITUTIONS › Section 17-1627-1 - Definitions

Current through June, 2024
For the purpose of this chapter:
"Applicant" means any adult person, agency, or organization
				  that makes a written request to the department to be approved as a child-caring
				  institution.
"Certificate of approval" or "license" means the certificate
				  or license issued by the department that authorizes a person, agency, or
				  organization to operate a child-caring institution.
"Child-caring institution" or "group home" means any
				  institution or group home licensed by the department, for the purpose of
				  receiving six or more unrelated minor children for temporary substitute
				  supervision, care, and maintenance apart from their legal custodians on a
				  twenty-four hour basis for monetary payment. This term shall not apply to any
				  boarding school which is primarily engaged in educational work or to any
				  resource family home, detention facility, forestry camp, training school, or
				  facility operated primarily for the detention of delinquent children. This term
				  shall also exclude public child care institutions that accommodate more than
				  twenty five children.
"Child-placing organization" means any licensed person,
				  agency, or organization, except family court and the department, engaged in the
				  assessment, placement, and supervision of children in foster care and which has
				  been delegated the authority by the department to approve resource family homes
				  and adoptive homes under its supervision.
"Children" means persons under eighteen years of age.
"Criminal history record check" means an examination of an
				  individual's criminal history record through fingerprint analysis and name
				  inquiry into state and national criminal history record files, including, but
				  not limited to, the files of the Hawaii criminal justice data center; provided
				  that the information obtained shall be used exclusively for purposes under this
				  chapter and shall be subject to applicable federal and state laws and
				  regulations.
"Department" means the department of human services.
"Director" or "executive director" or "superintendent" means
				  the person responsible for the administration of the institution.
"Discipline" means an educational and training process to
				  help a child understand and adopt socially accepted behavioral
				  standards.
"Foster care" or "out-of-home care" means placement which is
				  apart from the child's legal custodian which provides twenty-four hour
				  parenting care, including, but not limited to, a licensed relative's home, a
				  licensed resource family home, or a licensed child-caring institution.
"Legal custodian" means the child's parent(s), permanent
				  custodian(s), legal guardian(s), or other entities that have legal and physical
				  custody of the child.
"Professional services" means the services of dentists,
				  dieticians, physicians, psychiatrists, psychologists, nurses, and social
				  workers.
"Prospective employee" means a person seeking employment in
				  a child-caring institution for the first time in the State.
"Rehire" means a prospective employee of a child-caring
				  institution who is seeking to be employed in a child-caring institution
				  following termination of employment of more than six months and who has been
				  out of the State during this break in employment.
"Resource family home" or "resource home" means a home in
				  which up to five minor children, or a family sibling group of six or more minor
				  children, are received for care and maintenance apart from their legal
				  custodians, on a twenty-four basis for fee or charge and which has met the
				  state certification requirements.