Alaska Administrative Code › Title 7 - Health and Social Services › Part 4 - Children's Services and Juvenile Justice › Chapter 57 - Child Care Facilities Licensing › Article 8 - Miscellaneous Provisions › 7 AAC 57.990 - Definitions

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) In this chapter, unless the context
				  requires otherwise,
(1) "behavioral health
				  problem" means a mental disorder, substance use disorder, or co-occurring
				  disorder;
(2) "caregiver" includes
				  an administrator, child care associate, employee, student intern, substitute,
				  or other individual in a child care facility whose duties include care and
				  supervision of children, with or without compensation;
(3) "center" means a child care
				  center;
(4) "child care" or "care"
				  means the supervision and provision of developmental opportunities, with or
				  without compensation, to a child who does not have a parent present; "child
				  care" or "care" includes services in or away from the child care
				  facility;
(5) "child care
				  associate" means an individual who meets the requirements set out in
				  7 AAC 57.330;
(6) "child care center" means a child care
				  facility for 13 or more children;
(7) "child care group home" means a child
				  care facility, usually in an occupied residence, for nine to 12
				  children;
(8) "child care home"
				  means a child care facility, usually in an occupied residence, for no more than
				  eight children;
(9) "child in care"
				  means a child receiving care in a child care facility;
(10) "co-occurring disorder" means having
				  both a substance use disorder and an emotional or psychiatric
				  disorder;
(11) "CPR" means
				  cardiopulmonary resuscitation;
(12)
				  "department" means the Department of Health and Social Services;
(13) "domestic violence" has the meaning
				  given in AS 18.66.990;
(14) "domestic violence problem" means the
				  individual
(A) has been charged with,
				  convicted of, found not guilty by reason of insanity for, or adjudicated as a
				  delinquent for a crime involving domestic violence listed in
				  AS
				  18.66.990(3); or
(B) is or has been subject to a protective
				  order issued or filed under AS 18.66 or a substantially similar law or
				  ordinance of another jurisdiction;
(15) "facility" means a child care facility
				  described in
				  7 AAC 57.010(b);
(16) "group home" means a child care group
				  home;
(17) "home" means a child
				  care home or a child care group home;
(18) "IFSP" means individualized family
				  service plan;
(19) repealed
				  2/9/2007;
(20) "infant" means a
				  child from birth to 19 months of age;
(21) "kindergartner" means a child age five
				  or six;
(22) "nighttime care" means
				  care between the hours of 10:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m.;
(23) "owner" means the person licensed to
				  operate a child care facility;
(24)
				  "parent" means a birth or adoptive parent or a legal guardian;
(25) "part-time caregiver" means an
				  individual in a child care facility whose duties include care and supervision
				  of children in care, with or without compensation, for 15 hours or less per
				  week;
(26) "physician" has the
				  meaning given in
				  12 AAC 40.990;
(27) "preschooler" means a child age three or
				  four;
(28) "relative" means an
				  individual who is related to another by marriage, blood relationship, or court
				  decree; "relative" includes a parent, child, grandparent, great grandparent,
				  brother, sister, stepparent, stepsister, stepbrother, aunt, uncle, great-aunt,
				  great-uncle or step-grandparent;
(29) "school age" means age seven through age
				  18;
(30) "substance use disorder"
				  means a diagnostic category that meets the criteria set out in the following
				  documents, as amended from time to time and adopted by reference:
(A) the American Psychiatric Association's
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders,
Fifth
				  Edition, dated June 2013 (DSM-5);
(B) the
International Classification
				  of Diseases - 10th Revision, Clinical Modification, 2016, (ICD-10-CM),
based on information compiled by the United States Department of Health and
				  Human Services, and published by the American Medical Association;
(31) "supervision of children"
				  means the protective oversight of children including
(A) a prudent level of awareness of and
				  responsibility for a child's ongoing activity;
(B) knowledge of the child care program
				  provided by the facility, including applicable policies and procedures, the
				  applicable requirements of this chapter, and children's needs; and
(C) the degree of supervision indicated by a
				  child's age, developmental level, and physical, emotional, and social
				  needs;
(32) "toddler"
				  means a child age 19 months to age 36 months;
(33) "young child" means a child age birth up
				  to age nine.
(34) "on-site" means
				  present in the child care entity as defined in
				  7 AAC 57.010(b)(3).