Administrative Rules of Montana › Department 37 - PUBLIC HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES › Chapter 37.51 - YOUTH FOSTER HOMES › Subchapter 37.51.1 - General Requirements › Rule 37.51.102 - YOUTH FOSTER HOMES: DEFINITIONS

Current through Register Vol. 13, July 5, 2024
The following definitions apply to youth foster home
				  licensing rules:
(1) "ACIP" means the
				Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices of the U.S. Public Health
				Service.
(2) "Crib" means full size
				crib, mini crib, or play pen which must meet the applicable requirements for
				full size baby cribs or non-full size baby cribs as specified by the U.S.
				Consumer Product Safety Commission.
(3) "Department" means Department of Public
				Health and Human Services.
(4) "DT
				vaccine" means a vaccine containing a combination of diphtheria and tetanus
				toxoids for pediatric use.
(5) "DTP
				vaccine" means a vaccine containing diphtheria and tetanus toxoids and
				pertussis (whooping cough) vaccine combined, including a vaccine referred to as
				DTaP, diphtheria, tetanus toxoid, and acellular pertussis vaccine
				combined.
(6) "Foster child" means
				a person under 18 years of age who has been placed in a youth foster home by
				the department, another state agency, a tribe, or a licensed child placing
				agency. A youth over the age of 18 may remain in foster care if still in
				secondary school.
(7) "Foster
				parent" means a person responsible for the day-to-day care, supervision, and
				guidance of children in a youth foster home.
(8) "Household member" means any person
				residing in the home at the time of an emergency placement or foster care
				license application or any person staying in an emergency placement home or a
				licensed foster home for more than two weeks.
(9) "Kinship foster home" means a youth
				foster home in which substitute care is provided by a member of the child's
				extended family, a member of the child's or family's tribe, the child's
				godparents, the child's stepparents if the child is placed with the stepparent
				by the department, or a person to whom the child, child's parents and family
				ascribe a family relationship and with whom the child has had a significant
				emotional tie that existed prior to the agency's involvement with the child or
				family.
(10) "MMR vaccine" means a
				live virus vaccine containing a combination of measles, mumps, and rubella
				vaccine.
(11) "PCV vaccine" means a
				vaccine containing pneumococcal conjugate vaccine.
(12) "Secondhand smoke" or "environmental
				tobacco smoke (ETS)" is a mixture of the smoke given off by the burning end of
				a cigarette, pipe, or cigar, and the smoke exhaled by smokers.
(13) "Serious incident" includes suicide
				attempts, use of physical force by a foster parent or any member of the foster
				parent's household, sexual contact with the child by anyone, emergency medical
				treatment, injury to a foster child that requires hospitalization, physical
				assault by the foster child, involvement with law enforcement by any member of
				the foster parent's household, including a foster child, or the death of a
				foster child.
(14) "Substitute
				care" or "foster care" means the full-time care of a child who is placed in a
				youth foster home by the department, another state agency, a tribe, or licensed
				child placing agency for the purpose of providing food, shelter, security and
				safety, guidance, direction, and, if necessary, treatment to children who are
				removed from or who are without the care and supervision of their parents or
				guardians.
(15) "Td vaccine" means
				a booster vaccine containing a combination of tetanus and diphtheria
				toxoids.
(16) "Tdap vaccine" means
				a booster vaccine containing a combination tetanus toxoid, reduced diphtheria
				toxoid, and acellular pertussis vaccine.
(17) "Therapeutic foster home" means a youth
				foster home operating under the direction of the clinical staff of a licensed
				child placing agency when such agency has a contract with the department to
				provide therapeutic foster care services. A therapeutic foster home provides
				substitute care to only one child unless it is approved by the department to
				provide care for a second child needing therapeutic services. The therapeutic
				foster home may provide services to a foster child who does not need
				therapeutic services only as provided in ARM 37.51.603.
(18) "Youth foster home" or "foster home"
				means a youth care facility in which care is provided to a maximum of six
				children or youth residing in the home, other than including the foster
				parents' own children, stepchildren, or wards.
AUTH:  52-1-103,  52-2-111,  52-2-601,  52-2-621, 52-22-622,
					 MCA; IMP:  52-1-103,  52-2-102,  52-2-111,  52-2-112,  52-2-113,  52-2-115,  52-2-601,
					  52-2-603,  52-2-621,  52-2-622, MCA