Kansas Administrative Regulations › Agency 30 - KANSAS DEPARTMENT FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES › Article 47 - FOSTER CARE LICENSING › Section 30-47-102 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 43, No. 28, July 11, 2024
For the purpose of 30-47-101 through 30-47-127, the following
				terms and definitions shall apply:
(a)
			 "Administrative director" means the individual employed by a juvenile crisis
			 intervention center who is responsible for the daily operation of the
			 center.
(b) "Applicant" means a
			 person who has applied for a license but who has not yet been granted a
			 temporary permit or a license to operate a juvenile crisis intervention
			 center.
(c) "Authorized medical
			 practitioner" means a licensed physician, a physician's assistant operating
			 under a written protocol as authorized by a responsible physician, an APRN, or
			 registered nurse.
(d) "Auxiliary
			 staff member" means a type of staff member working at a juvenile crisis
			 intervention center in food services, clerical services, or
			 maintenance.
(e) "Basement" means
			 each area in a building with a floor level more than 30 inches below ground
			 level on all sides.
(f) "Case
			 management" means the provision of services directly by the staff members or
			 through another contracted provider.
(g) "Case manager" means an individual who is
			 designated by the permittee or licensee to coordinate the provision of services
			 to juveniles by staff members or other individuals or agencies and who meets
			 the requirements for a case manager in 30-47-108.
(h) "Case plan" means the comprehensive
			 written goals and services developed for each juvenile.
(i) "Center" means juvenile crisis
			 intervention center.
(j) "Clinical
			 director" means the individual at a juvenile crisis intervention center who is
			 responsible for the mental health services and who meets the requirements for a
			 clinical director in 30-47-108.
(k)
			 "Department" means Kansas department for children and families.
(l) "Designee" means a person who has the
			 same minimum qualifications as those of another staff member and who has been
			 selected to carry out a duty or role of that staff member.
(m) "Direct care staff member" means an
			 individual whose primary responsibility is to implement the program on a daily
			 basis, including providing direct supervision of, interaction with, and
			 protection of the juveniles and who meets the requirements for a direct care
			 staff member in 30-47-108.
(n)
			 "Direct supervision" means the physical presence of staff members in proximity
			 to allow for interaction and direct eye contact with juveniles.
(o) "Facility" means a type of child care
			 facility, pursuant to
			 K.S.A.
			 65-503 and amendments thereto, that meets the
			 requirements in
			 K.S.A.
			 65-535, and amendments thereto.
(p) "Head of a juvenile crisis intervention
			 center" means the administrative director or the person's designee.
(q) "In-service training" means job-related
			 training provided for staff members and volunteers.
(r) "Isolation" means the removal of a
			 juvenile from other juveniles to a separate locked room or quarters.
(s) "Juvenile" means an individual under 18
			 years of age.
(t) "Juvenile crisis
			 intervention center" means a facility operated by a permittee or licensee that
			 provides short-term observation, assessment, treatment and case planning, and
			 referral for any juvenile who is experiencing a mental health crisis and is
			 likely to cause harm to self or others.
(u) "License capacity" means the maximum
			 number of juveniles authorized to be in the juvenile crisis intervention center
			 at any one time.
(v) "Licensed
			 physician" means an individual who is licensed to practice either medicine and
			 surgery or osteopathy in Kansas by the Kansas state board of healing
			 arts.
(w) "Licensee" means a legal
			 business entity that has been granted a license to operate a center.
(x) "Likely to cause harm to self or others"
			 has the meaning specified in
			 K.S.A.
			 65-536, and amendments thereto.
(y) "Living unit" means the self-contained
			 building or portion of a building in which a juvenile crisis intervention
			 center is operated and maintained, including the sleeping rooms, bathrooms, and
			 dayroom for activities.
(z)
			 "permittee" means a legal business entity that has applied for a license and
			 has been granted a temporary permit by the secretary to operate a center.
(aa) "Placing agent" means an
			 entity having the legal authority to place a juvenile in a juvenile crisis
			 intervention center.
(bb)
			 "Professional staff member" means a staff member who is one of the following:
(1) The clinical director;
(2) a licensed physician;
(3) a licensed psychiatrist qualified to
			 evaluate, assess, and treat addictions or substance abuse and other mental
			 health disorders;
(4) an individual
			 licensed by the Kansas behavioral sciences regulatory board;
(5) a teacher licensed by the Kansas state
			 department of education;
(6) a
			 physician's assistant licensed in Kansas by the Kansas state board of healing
			 arts;
(7) a professional nurse
			 licensed by the Kansas state board of nursing;
(8) an advanced practice registered nurse
			 (APRN) licensed by the Kansas state board of nursing and qualified to evaluate,
			 assess, and treat addictions or substance abuse and other mental health
			 disorders;
(9) a dietician licensed
			 by the Kansas department for aging and disability services; or
(10) a case manager, who shall have a
			 bachelor's degree in behavioral science.