Hawaii Administrative Rules › Title 17 - DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES › Department of Human Services › Chapter 1625 - LICENSING OF RESOURCE FAMILY HOMES FOR CHILDREN › Section 17-1625-2 - Definitions

Current through June, 2024
For the purpose of this chapter:
"Agency" or "child-placing agency" means a child-placing
				  organization or the department's child welfare services branch.
"Agency placement" means placement of a foster child in a
				  resource family home through the department's child welfare services branch or
				  other child-placing agency.
"Applicant" means any adult person who makes a written
				  request to the department or a licensed child-placing agency to be approved as
				  a resource family home.
"Application" means a written request on the department or
				  the child-placing agency's form to care for children for the purpose of foster
				  care.
"Certificate of approval" or "license" means a certificate
				  or license to operate a resource family home issued to the resource family by
				  the department or a licensed child-placing organization.
"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 or agency" means any person,
				  agency, or organization engaged in the assessment, placement, and supervision
				  of children in foster care which has been authorized by statute, or delegated
				  the authority by the department to approve resource family homes and adoptive
				  homes.
"Child specific home" is a home licensed for a specific
				  child, pursuant to chapter 17-1617, HAR.
"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 the purposes under
				  this chapter and shall be subject to, applicable federal and state laws and
				  regulations.
"Department" means the department of human services.
"Employee" means an individual employed by the resource
				  family to work in the resource family's home.
"Foster care" and "foster care services" means temporary
				  substitute supervision, care, and maintenance apart from the child's legal
				  custodians on a twenty-four hour basis for monetary payment in a licensed
				  resource family home, or group home licensed by the department or other
				  appropriate agency, to an eligible child pursuant to chapter 17-1617, HAR,
				  whose legal custodians are unwilling or unable to provide a safe family home
				  for the child's safety, welfare and protection as determined by the department
				  pursuant to the child protective act.
"Foster child" means any child under eighteen years of age
				  who is in out-of-home care, pursuant to Chapter 17-1617, HAR.
"Foster family boarding home" or "foster home" means a
				  "resource family home" which has met the state licensing requirements in
				  chapter 17-1617, HAR, in which minor children are received for temporary
				  substitute supervision, care and maintenance apart from their legal custodians
				  on a twenty-four hour basis for monetary payment.
"Foster parent(s)" means a "resource family" who is :
(1) Licensed by the department to provide temporary safe
				  foster care services for children under the jurisdiction of the department in
				  out-of-home care; and
(2) Paid foster care maintenance payments by the department
				  for such services.
"Group home" means a "child-caring institution" as defined
				  above in this section.
"Household member" means any individual residing in the
				  resource family home, including but not limited to renters and boarders.
"Independent foster home" means a licensed "independent
				  resource family home" which receives foster children for temporary substitute
				  supervision, care and maintenance apart from their legal custodians on a
				  twenty-four hour basis for monetary payment from sources other than a
				  child-placing agency.
"Independent placement" means placement of a child into a
				  licensed resource family home directly by the child's legal custodian, and not
				  through a child-placing agency.
"Legal custodian" means the child's biological parent(s),
				  adoptive parents, permanent custodian(s) legal guardian(s), or other entities
				  that have legal and physical custody of the child.
"Provisional certificate of approval" means a temporary
				  certificate issued at the discretion of the department for a period usually not
				  exceeding sixty days to any resource family home which has met the essential
				  safety requirements but which has not fully met all licensing requirements at
				  the time the certificate is issued.
"Resource family home" means a home which has met the state
				  licensing requirements in chapter 17-1617, HAR, in which minor children are
				  received for temporary substitute supervision, care and maintenance apart from
				  their legal custodians on a twenty-four hour basis for monetary payment.
"Resource family" or "resource caregiver" means a family or
				  person who is:
(1) Licensed by the department to provide temporary safe
				  foster care services for children under the jurisdiction of the department in
				  out-of-home care; and
(2) Paid foster care maintenance payments by the department
				  for such services.
"Resource family training" means instruction in special
				  skills and knowledge to care for foster children as required and approved by
				  the department.