Idaho Administrative Code › Title IDAPA 16 - Health and Welfare, Department of › Rule 16.06.01 - CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES › Section 16.06.01.010 - DEFINITIONS AND ABBREVIATIONS A THROUGH E

Current through August 31, 2023
For the purposes of these rules, the following terms are used:
				(3-15-22)
01.
Adoption and Safe
			 Families Act of 1997 (P.L.
			 105-89) (ASFA)
. Federal law whose purpose
			 is to improve the safety of children, to promote adoption and other permanent
			 homes for children who need them, and to support families. (3-15-22)
02.
Adoption Assistance
. Funds
			 provided to adoptive parent(s) of a child who has special needs or who could
			 not be adopted without financial or medical assistance. (3-15-22)
03.
Adoption Services
.
			 Protective services through which a child is provided with a permanent home,
			 under new legal parentage, including transfer of the mutual rights and
			 responsibilities that prevail in the parent-child relationship.
			 (3-15-22)
04.
Alternate
			 Care
. Temporary, living arrangements, when necessary for a child to
			 leave their own home, through a variety of foster care, respite care,
			 residential treatment, and institutional resources, under the protections
			 established in Public Law
			 96-272, the federal "Adoption Assistance and Child
			 Welfare Act of 1980" as amended by
			 Public Law
			 105-89, the Adoption and Safe Families Act of
			 1997, the Child Protective Act, Section
			 16-1601 et seq., Idaho Code, and
			 the Indian Child Welfare Act,
			 25 U.S.C. Sections
			 1901 -
			 1963. (3-15-22)
05.
Alternate Care Plan
. A
			 federally required component of the Family Plan for a child in alternate care.
			 The alternate care plan contains elements related to reasonable efforts, the
			 family's plan, the child's alternate care provider, compelling reasons for not
			 terminating parental rights, Indian status, education, immunization, medical,
			 and other information important to the day-to-day care of the child.
			 (3-15-22)
06.
Board
.
			 The Idaho State Board of Health and Welfare. (3-15-22)
07.
Case Management
. A
			 change-oriented service to families that ensures and coordinates the provision
			 of family ongoing assessment, family service planning, treatment, planning for
			 permanency, protection, advocacy, review and reassessment, documentation, and
			 timely closure of a case. (3-15-22)
08.
Certified Adoption Professional
			 (formerly "qualified individual")
. An individual certified by the
			 Department who meets the qualifications specified in Section
			 889 of these rules for completion
			 of pre-placement adoption home studies, reports to the court under the
			 Termination of Parent and Child Relationship and Adoption of Children Acts, and
			 placement supervision reports. (3-15-22)
09.
Child and Family Services
			 (CFS)
. Those programs and services provided to families and children,
			 administered by the Department in accordance with these rules.
			 (3-15-22)
10.
Child
			 Protection
. All children under eighteen (18) who have been harmed or
			 threatened with harm by a person responsible for their health or welfare
			 through non-accidental physical or mental injury, sexual abuse (as defined by
			 state law) or negligent treatment or maltreatment, including the failure to
			 provide adequate food, clothing, or shelter must be served without regard to
			 income. (3-15-22)
11.
Child
			 Protective Services
. Services provided in response to potential,
			 alleged, or actual abuse, neglect, or abandonment of individuals under the age
			 of eighteen (18) in accordance with the provisions of Section
			 16-1601 et seq., Idaho Code, the
			 "Child Protective Act." (3-15-22)
12.
Compact Administrator
. The
			 individual designated to coordinate interstate transfers of persons requiring
			 special services in accordance with the provisions of Section
			 16-1901 et seq., Idaho Code,
			 "Interstate Compact for Juveniles"; Section
			 16-2101 et seq., Idaho Code,
			 "Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children"; or Section
			 39-7501 et seq., Idaho Code,
			 "Interstate Compact on Adoption and Medical Assistance." (3-15-22)
13.
Daycare for Children
. Care
			 and supervision provided for compensation during part of a twenty-four (24)
			 hour day, for a child or children not related by blood or marriage to the
			 person or persons providing the care, in a place other than the child's or
			 children's own home or homes. (3-15-22)
14.
Department
. The Idaho
			 Department of Health and Welfare. (3-15-22)
15.
Deprivation
. One of the
			 factors used in determining Aid to Families with Dependent Children -Foster
			 Care (AFDC-FC) eligibility for children in foster care. Deprivation is a lack
			 of, or interruption in, the maintenance, physical care, and parental guidance a
			 child ordinarily receives from one (1) or both parents. A child is deprived by
			 the continued absence of a parent, incapacity of a parent, death of a parent,
			 unemployment or underemployment of the principal wage earner parent.
			 (3-15-22)
16.
Director
. The Director of the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare or
			 their designee. (3-15-22)
17.
Extended Family Member of an Indian Child
. As defined by the law,
			 or custom of an Indian child's tribe or, in the absence of such law or custom,
			 a person who has reached the age of eighteen (18) and who is an Indian child's
			 grandparent, aunt or uncle, brother or sister, brother-in-law or sister-in-law,
			 niece or nephew, first or second cousin, or stepparent. (3-15-22)
18.
Extended Foster Care
. A
			 court order or voluntary case extending foster care placement services and
			 authority for individuals between the ages of eighteen (18) and twenty-one (21)
			 years to help such person achieve a successful transition to adulthood,
			 provided such person must have been in the custody of the department until his
			 eighteenth birthday and must meet the criteria set forth in 42
			 25 U.S.C.
			 675(8)(B)(iv).
			 (3-15-22)