Iowa Administrative Code › Agency 441 - Human Services Department › Title XII - Licensing and Approved Standards › Chapter 113 - Licensing and Regulation of Foster Family Homes › Rule 441-113.2 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 47, No. 3, July 24, 2024
"Age- or developmentally appropriate
				  activities"
means activities or items that are generally accepted as
				  suitable for children of the same chronological age or level of maturity or
				  that are determined to be developmentally appropriate for a child, based on the
				  development of cognitive, emotional, physical, and behavioral capacities that
				  are typical for an age or age group; and in the case of a specific child,
				  activities or items that are suitable for the child based on the developmental
				  stages attained by the child with respect to the cognitive, emotional,
				  physical, and behavioral capacities of the child.
"Child or children"
means the child or
				  children who are in foster care for the purpose of this chapter only.
"Corporal punishment"
means the intentional
				  physical punishment of the child(ren).
"Department"
means the Iowa department of
				  human services and includes the local offices of the department.
"Fictive kin"
means an adult person who is
				  not a relative of a child but who has an emotionally significant positive
				  relationship with a child or the child's family.
"Foster family home"
means a home in which
				  an individual person or persons or a married couple who wishes to provide or is
				  providing, for a period exceeding 24 consecutive hours, board, room, and care
				  for the child(ren) in a single family living unit.
"Health care provider"
means a licensed
				  medical doctor, doctor of osteopathy, physician assistant or advanced
				  registered nurse practitioner who completes a health report.
"Kinship care"
means the care of a child by
				  a relative or fictive kin providing full-time nurturing and protection.
"Kinship caregiver"
means a relative or
				  fictive kin providing care for a child.
"Public water supply system (PWS)"
means a
				  system for the provision to the public of water for human consumption through
				  pipes or other constructed conveyances, if such system has at least 15 service
				  connections or regularly serves an average of at least 25 individuals daily at
				  least 60 days out of the year.
"Reasonable and prudent parent standard"
means the standard characterized by careful and sensible parental decisions
				  that maintain the health, safety, and best interests of the child(ren) while at
				  the same time encourage the emotional and developmental growth of the
				  child(ren), that a caregiver shall use when determining whether to allow the
				  child(ren) in foster care under the responsibility of the state to participate
				  in extracurricular, enrichment, cultural, and social activities. For the
				  purposes of this definition, "caregiver" means a foster parent with whom the
				  child(ren) in foster care have been placed or a designated official for a child
				  care institution (including group homes, residential treatment, shelters, or
				  other congregate care settings) in which the child(ren) in foster care have
				  been placed.
"Reasonable force"
means that force, and no
				  more, which a reasonable person in like circumstances would judge to be
				  necessary to prevent an injury or loss.
"Recruitment and retention contractor"
means
				  the entity that contracts with the department statewide to recruit foster and
				  adoptive parents, complete home studies, and perform activities to support and
				  encourage retention of foster and adoptive parents, or any of its
				  subcontractors.
"Relative"
means an individual related to
				  the child within the fourth degree of consanguinity or affinity, by marriage,
				  or through adoption. "Relative" includes the parent of a sibling of the child
				  if the sibling's parent's parental rights were not previously terminated in
				  relation to the child.
"Service area manager"
means the department
				  employee responsible for managing department offices and personnel within the
				  service area and for implementing policies and procedures of the
				  department.
"Social work administrator"
means the
				  department employee responsible for supervising the social work staff within a
				  department service area and for implementing service policies and procedures of
				  the department.
"Variance"
means meeting a licensing
				  standard through alternative means.
"Waiver"
means waiving the licensing
				  standard entirely. A waiver may only be granted for non-safety licensing
				  standards for a kinship caregiver.
This rule is intended to implement Iowa Code chapter
				  237.