Iowa Administrative Code › Agency 441 - Human Services Department › Title XV - Individual and Family Support and Protective Services › Chapter 172 - Family-centered Services › Rule 441-172.1 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 47, No. 3, July 24, 2024
"Agency"
means the Iowa department of human
				  services.
"Agency child welfare service case"
means at
				  least one child in a household is involved in agency services with an
				  agency-assigned social work case manager.
"Agency worker"
means the agency child
				  welfare worker who has been assigned responsibility for a child and family's
				  case, either to perform a child abuse assessment, family assessment, or child
				  in need of assistance (CINA) assessment or assume case management
				  responsibility for ongoing agency child welfare service cases.
"Candidate for foster care"
means a child
				  who is identified in a prevention plan as being at imminent risk of entering
				  foster care but who can remain safely in the child's home or in a kinship
				  placement as long as services or programs that are necessary to prevent the
				  entry of the child into foster care are provided. "Candidate for foster care"
				  includes a child whose adoption or guardianship arrangement is at risk of a
				  disruption or dissolution that would result in a foster care placement.
"Child," "children,"
or
"youth"
means a person or persons who meet the definition of a
				  child in Iowa Code section
				  234.1(2).
"Child abuse"
means one or more of the
				  categories of child abuse defined in Iowa Code section
				  232.68.
"Child abuse assessment"
means an assessment
				  process by which the agency responds to all accepted reports of child abuse
				  that allege child abuse as defined in Iowa Code section
				  232.68(2)
"a"
(1) through (3) and (5) through (11); or that allege child
				  abuse as defined in Iowa Code section
				  232.68(2)
"a"
(4) that also allege imminent danger, death, or injury to a
				  child. A child abuse assessment results in a disposition and a determination of
				  whether a case meets the definition of child abuse and a determination of
				  whether criteria for placement on the registry are met.
"Child in need of assistance"
or
"CINA"
means a child adjudicated by juvenile court to be a
				  child in need of assistance pursuant to Iowa Code section
				  232.2.
"Child vulnerability"
means the degree that
				  a child cannot on the child's own avoid, negate, or minimize the impact of
				  present or impending danger.
"Contractor"
means a private organization
				  authorized to do business in Iowa that has entered into a contract with the
				  agency to provide one or more of the services defined in this chapter.
				  "Contractor" refers to the organization that is named as the responsible party
				  in the contract and whose authorized representative has signed the
				  contract.
"Family assessment"
means an assessment
				  process by which the agency responds to all accepted reports of child abuse
				  that allege child abuse as defined in Iowa Code section
				  232.68(2)
"a"
(4), but do not allege imminent danger, death, or injury to
				  a child. A family assessment does not include a determination of whether a case
				  meets the definition of child abuse and does not include a determination of
				  whether criteria for placement on the registry are met.
"Family-centered services"
means the
				  services provided by contract pursuant to this chapter.
"Family preservation services"
or
"FPS"
means short-term, intensive, home-based crisis
				  interventions targeted to families that have children at imminent risk of
				  removal and placement in foster care. Family preservation services combine
				  skill-based interventions and flexibility so that services are available to
				  families according to their individual needs.
"Fictive kin"
means a person who is
				  unrelated to a child by blood, adoption, or marriage, but who has an
				  emotionally significant relationship with the child or the child's
				  family.
"Household"
means the place where a child
				  resides.
"Kinship caregiver"
means a relative or
				  fictive kin providing care for a child.
"Kinship navigator services"
means the
				  services and supports providing information, referral, and follow-up to kinship
				  caregivers who are caring for and raising children to link kinship caregivers
				  to benefits and other resources they need.
"Non-agency-involved case"
means a case in
				  which no one in the household is involved with an agency-assigned social work
				  case manager.
"Permanency"
means a child has a safe,
				  stable, custodial environment in which to grow up and a lifelong relationship
				  with a nurturing caregiver.
"Protective capacities"
means the family
				  strengths or resources that reduce, control, or prevent risks from arising or
				  from having an unsafe impact on a child.
"Risk"
means the probability or likelihood
				  that a child will experience maltreatment.
"Safe"
means that no signs of present or
				  impending danger to a child are identified or that one or more signs of present
				  or impending danger are identified but the child's degree of vulnerability or
				  the caregiver's protective capacities offset the current threat. The child is
				  not likely to be in imminent danger of maltreatment.
"SafeCare®"
means an evidence-based
				  training curriculum for parents who are at risk or have been reported for child
				  abuse. Through SafeCare®, parents receive weekly home visits to improve
				  skills in several areas, including home safety, health care, and parent-child
				  interaction.
"Solution Based Casework®"
or
"SBC"
means an evidence-based, family-centered model of child
				  welfare assessment, case planning, and ongoing casework. The goal of SBC is to
				  work in partnership with the family to help identify the family's strengths, to
				  focus on everyday life events, and to help the family build the skills
				  necessary to manage difficult situations.
"Solution focused meeting"
means a gathering
				  of family members, friends, and formal and informal supports, with the
				  assistance of a trained facilitator, to draw on past successes of the family in
				  problem solving and work in partnership with the family to enhance safety of
				  the children.