Code of Maine Rules › 10 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES › 148 - OFFICE OF CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES › Chapter 1 - CHILD AND ADULT CARE FOOD PROGRAM POLICY MANUAL NONDISCRIMINATION NOTICE › Section 148-1-I - INTRODUCTION › Subsection 148-1-I-D - DEFINITIONS

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
The following is a list of those terms most Commonly used
					 in this manual which have a special meaning when used in reference to the Child
					 and Adult Care Food Program.- (Those terms defined in 7 CFR Part 226, §
										226.2, Rules and
					 Regulations for Administering the U.S.D.A. Child and Adult Care Food Program,
					 are identified for continuity.)
"Act": See 7 CFR Part 226.
"Administrative Costs": See 7 CFR Part 226.
"Adult": See 7 CFR Part 226.
"Adult Day Care Center": See 7 CFR Part 226.
*Adult Day Care Facility": See 7 CFR Part 226.
"Adult Participation": See 7 CFR Part 226.
"Advanced Payment": See 7 CFR Part 226.
"AFDC Assistance Unit": See 7 CFR Part 226.
"Assessment": For participants in Adult Day Care Centers
					 means a description of the individual participant's strengths and needs based
					 on information obtained from the participant and/or his/her family members,
					 caregivers, physician, etc. The assessment shall include information such as a
					 health profile.. the Individual's mental and emotional status.. daily living
					 skills, support services available to the individual,, possible need for
					 services from other service providers.. and a current medical
					 examination.
"Authorized Capacity" means the number of individuals a
					 facility is licensed/ registered to serve at any one time, plus any other
					 C.A.C.F.P. enrolled individuals who are not required to be counted as part of
					 the Licensed/Registered capacity. (Also see "Licensed Capacity" and "Registered
					 Capacity")
"Average Daily Attendance": means the total number of
					 enrolled participants in attendance each day 'of the reporting period divided
					 by the total number of days of operation in the reporting period, (also see
					 "Reporting Period").
"Breast Milk": means only self-expressed breast milk which
					 is provided by an infant's mother. This term does not include that which may be
					 purchased by a provider or parent and does not include that which is supplied
					 by the provider should she breastfeed an infant other than her own.
"Bureau": means the Bureau of Child and Family
					 Services.
"C.A.C.F.P. Child Care Standards": See 7 CFR Part
					 226.
"Child Care Center": means a non-residential child care
					 facility licensed by the Department of Human Services, or by military authority
					 if located on a military installation,, to serve 13 or more children.
"Child Care Facility": means a child care center, head
					 start center, child day care home, or outside-school-hours care center licensed
					 or approved by the Maine Department of Human Services, or by military authority
					 if located on a military installation, and operating under the auspices of a
					 participating organization.
"Children": See 7 CFR Part 226.
"Claiming Month": means the period of time from the day
					 following the final Friday of a calendar month until and including the final
					 Friday of the next calendar month.
"Claiming Percentage": See 7 CFR Part 226.
"Current Income": See 7 CFR Part 226.
"Daily Attendance": means the documentation of each
					 enrolled adult's or child's presence or absence from the program on each day of
					 program operation.
"Day Care Home": means a non-residential facility licensed
					 or registered by the Department of Human Services, or by military authority if
					 located on a military installation to provide child care for up to 12
					 children.
"Department": for purposes of this policy manual means the
					 Maine Department of Human Services (DHS). (Also see 7 CFR Part 226 for use of
					 the term in Federal regulation.)
"Documentation": See 7 CFR Part 226.
"Economic Unit": means a group of related or unrelated
					 persons who share housing and all significant income and expenses.
"Eligible Costs for Organizations Operating Centers or
					 Outside-School-Hours Centers": means those expenses approved in the signed
					 agreement* or amendment, between the organization and the Department which are
					 incurred by the center in the production of meals and/or supplements which meet
					 C.A.C.F.P. component and quantity requirements.
"Eligible Costs for Organizations Sponsoring Day Care
					 Homes": means those expenses approved in the signed agreement, or amendment,
					 between the organization and the Department which are incurred in the process
					 of sponsoring day care homes for participation in the C.A.C.F.P. and which may
					 appear on the monthly claim for reimbursement.
"Enrolled Child": See 7 CFR Part 226.
"Enrolled Participant": See 7 CFR Part 226.
"Expansion Funds": See 7 CFR Part 226.
"Family": means a group of related or unrelated individuals
					 who are not residents of an Institution or boarding home but who are living as
					 one economic unit.
"Family Income": See 7 CFR Part 226.
"Fiscal Year": See 7 CFR Part 226.
"FNS": See 7 CFR Part 226.
"FNSRO": See 7 CFR Part 226.
"Food Service Equipment Assistance": See 7 CFR Part
					 226.
"Food Service Management Company": See 7 CFR Part
					 226.
"Food Stamp' Household": See 7 CFR Part 226.
"Foster Child": means a child who is a ward of the State
					 who has been placed in the care of a "Foster Family." Such an individual shall
					 be considered to be a family of one when determining the child's eligibility
					 for "Free" or "Reduced-Price" meals. Only income which is at the disposal of
					 the foster child shall be considered when calculating the child's monthly
					 income.
"Free Meal": See 7 CFR Part 226.
"Functionally Impaired Adult": See 7 CFR Part 226 and
					 Section III, Subsection F of this manual.
"Household": See 7 CFR Part 226. (Also see "Family" this
					 section.)
"Income": means total monetary compensation for services
					 including wages.. salaries, commissions.. fees, net Income from no-farm and
					 farm self-employment.. Social Securities, dividends, interest, net rents public
					 assistance or welfare, unemployment compensation, pensions, retirements,
					 contributions received, veterans benefits, annuities, alimony, child support,
					 net royalties and any other income .available to pay the price of a
					 meal.
"Income Standards"; See 7 CFR-Part 226.
"Income to the Program": See 7 CFR Part 226.
"Independent Center": See 7 CFR Part 226.
"Individual Plan of Care": means a plan designed to
					 maintain an adult day care participant at his/her current level or to restore
					 the participant to a level of self care. The plan must be written and must
					 include at least the following components:
1. assessment as previously defined;
				  and
2. plan of service.
"Infant Cereal": See 7 CFR Part 226.
"Infant Formula": See 7 CFR Part 226.
"Institution": See 7 CFR Part 226. (Also see "Organization"
					 this section)
"Key Element Reporting System": (KERS) See 7 CFR Part
					 226.
"Licensed Capacity": means the total number of
					 children/adults a facility is approved by license to maintain in attendance at
					 any one time. As per Child Care Licensing rules for Child Day Care Facilities:
					 children of staff members shall be counted in the appropriate age groups when
					 in care at the child care facility.
"Meals": See 7 CFR Part 226.
"Medicaid Participant": See 7 CFR Part 226.
"Milk": See 7 CFR Part 226.
"Menu": means a written plan that identifies food items to
					 be served to adults or children at a specific meal/supplement.
"Non-Pricing Program": See 7 CFR Part 226.
"Non-Profit": means an organization incorporated or
					 registered as a non-profit organization with the Secretary of the State of
					 Maine.
"Non-Profit Food Service": See 7 CFR Part 226.
"Non-Residential" See 7 CFR Part 226.
"OIG": See 7 CFR Part 226.
"Operating Costs": See 7 CFR Part 226.
"Organization": means a sponsoring organization of child
					 day care homes, or the organization which operates child day care centers, head
					 start centers, outside-school-hours care centers, or adult day care centers
					 which enters Into an agreement with the Department to assure final
					 administrative and financial responsibility for Program operations. (Also see
					 "Institutions" and 7 CFR Part 226.)
"Outside-school-hours Care Center": See 7 CFR Part
					 226.
"Paid": means the rate to be paid for a meal or supplement
					 served to an enrolled participant who does not meet the U.S.D.A. family size
					 and income requirements or to an applicant whose family declines to provide the
					 information necessary to determine the participant's eligibility for either
					 "Free" or "Reduced-price" meals.
"Participant": See 7 CFR Part 226.
"Personal Property": See 7 CFR Part 226.
"Plan of Service": means a written plan for adult day care
					 center participants, based on the assessment defined above which
					 specifies:
1. The goals and objectives
				  of the planned care;
2. Activities
				  to achieve the !goals and objectives;
3. Recommendations for therapy;
4. Referrals to* and follow up with other
				  service providers as needed; and
5.
				  Provisions for periodic review and renewal.
"Pricing Program": See 7 CFR Part 226.
"Production Report": . means a report of the total quantity
					 of each food item on the menu that is prepared and served to children and/or
					 adults. The report must show the number of children by age group, adult
					 participants, and other adults such as adult care givers for whom the meal or
					 supplement was prepared.
"Program": See 7 CFR Part 226.
"Program Payments": See 7 CFR Part 226.
"Proprietary Title XIX Center" . See 7 CFR Part 226.
"Proprietary Title XX Center": See 7 CFR Part 226.
"Provider's Own Children": (In day care homes only) means
					 all children related or unrelated to the provider who are living as part of the
					 economic unit of the provider's family.
"Reduced-price Meal": See 7 CFR Part 226.
"Registered Capacity For Child Day Care Homes which have
					 applied for and received a certificate as a "Registered Home Baby-sitting
					 Service" means: The number of unrelated children approved to be in care at any
					 one time, as per the certificate.. plus the number of related children approved
					 to be maintained in care as per the approved Sponsor-Home Agreement and
					 Sponsor-State Agreement. (see "Related Children")
"Reimbursement": See 7 CFR Part 226.
"Related Children": means the child care provider's
					 daughters, sons, step-daughters, step-sons, adopted daughters, adopted sons,
					 granddaughters, grandsons, nieces, nephews, or first cousins. Children beyond
					 first cousins shall not be considered to be "Related Children" for C.A.C.F.P.
					 purposes.
"Reporting Period": means a Claiming Month." (see "Claiming
					 Month")
"School Year": See 7 CFR Part 226.
"Sponsoring Organization": See 7 CFR Part 226 and
					 "Organization."
"SSI Participant": See 7 CFR Part 226.
"Start-up Payments": See 7 CFR Part 226.
"State": See 7 CFR Part 226.
"State Agency": for purposes of this policy manual means
					 the Department of Human Services (also see 7 CFR Part 226 for use of the term
					 in Federal regulations.)
"Title XVI": See 7 CFR Part 226.
"Title XIX": See 7 CFR Part 226.
"Title XX": See 7 CFR Part 226.
"Uniform Federal Assistance Regulations": See 7 CFR part
					 226.
"Vendor" means a public or private non-profit school from
					 which a child. care organization purchases food or food services under a
					 contract which spells out the rights and responsibilities of each party.
					 ("Vendor" is also used generically in this Manual to refer to both schools and
					 to Food Service Management Companies acting as "vendors" to a child care
					 organization.)
"Verification": See 7 CFR Part 226.
"Yogurt": See 7 CFR Part 226.