Florida Administrative Code › 65 - DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILIES › 65C - Family Safety and Preservation Program › Chapter 65C-1 - HOME CARE FOR DISABLED ADULTS › Section 65C-1.006 - Provider Requirements

Current through Reg. 50, No. 138; July 16, 2024
A provider in the Home Care for Disabled Adults Program shall
				  meet, at minimum, the eligibility criteria outlined herein. Each provider
				  shall:
(1) Be a responsible adult
				willing to and capable of accepting responsibility for the social, physical,
				and emotional needs of the home care client in a family-type living
				arrangement;
(2) Be an individual,
				relative or non-relative, who has a positive personal relationship with the
				home care client and who, if not family, is accepted by the home care client as
				surrogate family; or be a responsible adult who maintains a positive personal
				relationship with the home care client and is an individual with whom the home
				care client has made a financial arrangement for the provision of home care
				services;
(3) Reside in and be
				physically present in the home to provide services, supervision, and assistance
				with the arrangement of services for the home care client, and be responsible
				for making alternative arrangements for care to be assumed by another
				responsible adult, when the provider is temporarily absent from the home, in
				keeping with the standards set forth for the Home Care for Disabled Adults
				Program;
(4) Be responsible for
				maintaining the residential dwelling free of conditions that pose threat to the
				life, safety, health, or well-being of the home care client;
(5) Grant written authorization for a
				background check, at least annually, through the department's central abuse
				hotline information system for abuse, neglect, or exploitation of a vulnerable
				adult, as defined in Section
				 415.102, F.S., or child, as
				defined in Section  39.01, F.S., and shall:
(a) Be without record of criminal conviction
				of abuse, neglect, or exploitation of a vulnerable adult or child;
(b) Not have been the perpetrator in a
				confirmed report of abuse, neglect, or exploitation of a vulnerable adult,
				investigated or completed prior to September 1, 2000 by the Department of
				Children and Families and maintained in the department's central abuse hotline
				information system;
(c) Not have
				been the perpetrator in a confirmed report of abuse, neglect, or exploitation
				of a child, investigated or completed prior to October 1, 1995 by the
				Department of Children and Families and maintained in the department's central
				abuse hotline information system;
(d) Not have been a possible responsible
				person in a report with verified findings of abuse, neglect, or exploitation of
				a vulnerable adult, investigated or completed on or after September 1, 2000 by
				the Department of Children and Families and maintained in the department's
				central abuse hotline information system;
(e) Not have been a possible responsible
				person in a report with verified findings of abuse, neglect, or exploitation of
				a child, investigated or completed on or after October 1, 1995 by the
				Department of Children and Families and maintained in the department's central
				abuse hotline information system;
(f) Provide written information on felony or
				first degree misdemeanor charges, as requested.
(g) The department shall grant an exemption
				from any disqualifying offense if the department has clear and convincing
				evidence to justify the exemption; and