Ohio Administrative Code › Title 5101:2 - Division of Social Services › Chapter 5101:2-1 - Children Services Definition of Terms › Section 5101:2-1-01 - Children services definitions of terms

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1, 2024
(A) This rule contains the definitions of
			 terms used in Chapters 5101:2-5, 5101:2-7, 5101:2-9, 5101:2-33, 5101:2-36,
			 5101:2-37, 5101:2-38, 5101:2-39, 5101:2-40, 5101:2-42, 5101:2-44, 5101:2-45,
			 5101:2-47, 5101:2-48, 5101:2-49, 5101:2-50, 5101:2-52 and 5101:2-53 of the
			 Administrative Code.
(B)
			 Definitions.
(1) "Abandoned child," pursuant
			 to section 2151.011 of the Revised Code,
			 means a child who is presumed abandoned when the parents of the child have
			 failed to visit or maintain contact with the child for more than ninety days,
			 regardless of whether the parents resume contact with the child after that
			 period of ninety days.
(2) "Abused
			 child," pursuant to section
			 2151.031 of the Revised Code,
			 includes any child who:
(a) Is the victim of
			 sexual activity as defined under Chapter 2907. of the Revised Code, where such
			 activity would constitute an offense under Chapter 2907. of the Revised Code
			 except that the court need not find that any person has been convicted of the
			 offense in order to find that the child is an abused child.
(b) Is endangered as defined in section
			 2919.22 of the Revised Code,
			 except that the court need not find that any person has been convicted under
			 section 2919.22 of the Revised Code in
			 order to find that the child is an abused child.
(c) Exhibits evidence of any physical or
			 mental injury or death, inflicted other than by accidental means, or an injury
			 or death which is at variance with the history given of it. Except as provided
			 in this definition, a child exhibiting evidence of corporal punishment or other
			 physical disciplinary measure by a parent, guardian, custodian, person having
			 custody or control, or person in loco parentis of a child is not an abused
			 child under this definition if the measure is not prohibited under section
			 2919.22 of the Revised
			 Code.
(d) Because of the acts of
			 his parents, guardian, or custodian, suffers physical or mental injury that
			 harms or threatens to harm the child's health or welfare.
(e) Is subjected to out-of-home care child
			 abuse.
(3) "Adjudicatory
			 hearing" pursuant to section
			 2151.28 of the Revised Code
			 means a hearing held by the juvenile court to determine whether a child is a
			 juvenile traffic offender, delinquent, unruly, abused, neglected, or dependent
			 or otherwise within the jurisdiction of the court or whether temporary or legal
			 custody should be converted to permanent custody.
(4) "Administrative director" or
			 "administrator" means the person designated by the governing body of an agency
			 who is responsible for the management and administration of the
			 agency.
(5) "Adopted person" is a
			 person whose legal relationship was terminated with his/her biological parents,
			 through permanent surrender or court order, and a new legal relationship has
			 been established with an adoptive family.
(6) "Adopted young adult" is an individual
			 who:
(a) Was in the temporary or permanent
			 custody of a public children services agency.
(b) Was adopted at the age of sixteen or
			 seventeen and attained the age of sixteen before a Title IV-E adoption
			 assistance agreement became effective.
(c) Has attained the age of
			 eighteen.
(d) Has not yet attained
			 the age of twenty-one.
(7) "Adoption" is the creation, by a court of
			 competent jurisdiction, of parental rights and responsibilities between a child
			 and an adult, along with the termination of all parental rights and
			 responsibilities to the child held by any other persons, which have not been
			 previously surrendered or terminated by court order.
(8) "Adoption Disruption" is when the
			 adoption process is stopped at any point before the adoption is legally
			 finalized.
(9) "Adoption
			 Dissolution" is an adoption in which the legal relationship between the
			 adoptive parents and adoptive child is severed, either voluntarily or
			 involuntarily, after the adoption is legally finalized.
(10) "Adoption finalization" is an order of
			 the court issued pursuant to section
			 3107.14 of the Revised Code
			 terminating all parental rights and responsibilities of a biological or other
			 legal parent and creating the relationship of parent and child between the
			 petitioner and the adopted person.
(11) "Adoptive parent" is a person who adopts
			 a person legally available for adoption.
(12) "Adoptive placement" means the permanent
			 placement of a child for adoption, including any action resulting in a final
			 adoption decree.
(13) "After-hours"
			 are the times other than the normal business day, Monday through Friday,
			 pursuant to policies as set forth by the public children services agency
			 (PCSA). "After-hours" also includes weekends and holidays.
(14) "Aftercare services" are defined as
			 specific individualized community-based trauma informed services that build on
			 treatment gains to promote the safety and well-being of children and families,
			 with the goal of preserving the youth in a supportive family environment.
			 Aftercare services may be part of the discharge plan and added to the
			 "agreement for Title IV-E agencies for the provision of non-placement services"
			 and the "Title IV-E schedule B" rate information.
(15) "Aftercare support" is monthly case
			 management activities performed with or on behalf of a child/family, by the
			 qualified residential treatment program (QRTP) as part of the required
			 discharge plan developed by the permanency team for a minimum of six months
			 from discharge. Aftercare support, as identified in the discharge plan, may be
			 part of the "agreement for Title IV-E agencies and providers for the provision
			 of placement services" or the Title IV-E agencies may use the "agreement for
			 Title IV-E agencies for the provision of non-placement services" and the "Title
			 IV-E schedule B" rate information.
(16) "Agency" means a PCSA, private child
			 placing agency (PCPA) or private noncustodial agency (PNA) certified by
			 ODJFS.
(17) "Agreement for
			 temporary custody" means a voluntary agreement authorized by section
			 5103.15 of the Revised Code and
			 transferring the temporary custody of a child to a PCSA or a PCPA.
(18) "Allegation" means a described set of
			 circumstances which asserts the occurrence of child abuse, neglect, or
			 dependency.
(19) "Alleged child
			 victim" means a child suspected of being or at risk of becoming abused and/or
			 neglected.
(20) "Alleged
			 perpetrator" is the individual suspected of being responsible for the abuse or
			 neglect of a child.
(21) "Anonymous
			 reporter" is an unidentified person making a report of alleged child abuse or
			 neglect.
(22) "Applicant" means a
			 person who has filed an application form with ODJFS to operate an agency
			 regulated by Chapter 5101:2-5 of the Administrative Code or a person who has
			 completed a JFS 01691 "Application for Child Placement" to become a foster
			 caregiver or adoptive parent and submitted the application to an agency
			 pursuant to Chapters 5101:2-5, 5101:2-7 and 5101:2-48 of the Administrative
			 Code. An applicant does not include a person currently certified as a foster
			 caregiver and who is applying to become a specialized foster caregiver with the
			 same agency with which the person is currently affiliated as a certified foster
			 caregiver.
(23) "Approved adoptive
			 home" is a home in which the family has been studied, assessed and approved by
			 the PCSA, PCPA or PNA for the adoptive placement of a child.
(24) "Approved kinship home" is a home of a
			 kinship caregiver that has been assessed by a PCSA or PCPA and has been
			 determined to meet minimum safety requirements established in rule
			 5101:2-42-18 of the
			 Administrative Code for kinship caregivers to receive placement of kin
			 children.
(25) "Assessment" means
			 comprehensive family assessment and/or risk assessment as defined by this
			 rule.
(26) "Assessor" for the
			 purposes of foster care or adoption means an individual who meets the
			 requirements outlined in section
			 3107.014 of the Revised
			 Code.
(27)
			 "Assessment/investigation" means a fact-finding process which includes
			 interviews, observations, and other forms of information gathering. Information
			 collected during the assessment/investigation provides data upon which to make
			 a disposition regarding a report of alleged child abuse or neglect.
(28) "Assessment of risk" or "re-assessment
			 of risk" means the ongoing process of classifying a family based upon the
			 family's characteristics and how likely the family is to maltreat or
			 re-maltreat a child(ren).
(29)
			 "Assessment of safety" or "re-assessment of safety" means the ongoing process
			 of evaluating safety threats, protective capacities, and child vulnerability to
			 determine the appropriate safety response.
(30) "At risk of institutionalization" as
			 used in the definition of a "medically fragile foster home" means that unless
			 the child's medical condition, and/or functional abilities and/or environment
			 are maintained or improved, the child would require placement in a hospital,
			 skilled nursing facility or intermediate care facility for individuals with an
			 intellectual disability, in order to maintain their health and
			 safety.
(31) "Attorney" is a person
			 who has been admitted to the bar by order of the Ohio supreme court.
(32) "Authorization of release form" is the
			 form prescribed by the department of health under division (A)(2) of section
			 3107.50 of the Revised Code to
			 be used by the birth parent.
(33)
			 "Birth parent" is a biological parent of an adopted person.
(34) "Birth sibling" is a biological sibling
			 of an adopted person.
(35) "Board
			 of directors" or "board of trustees" or "governing body" or "governing board"
			 means the body of persons empowered by an organization's articles of
			 incorporation, constitution, regulations, or statute to operate an agency and
			 may or may not have proprietary interest in the agency.
(36) "Branch office" means a location of an
			 agency having an address separate from the main or primary location of the
			 agency where any or all of the certified functions of the agency may be
			 conducted.
(37) "Business Day" is
			 any day Monday through Friday excluding the ten federal holidays.
(38) "Calendar day" is any day in the month
			 including weekends and holidays.
(39) "Calendar year" means January first
			 through December thirty-first.
(40)
			 "Candidate for foster care" is a child, who is at imminent risk of removal from
			 home, as evidenced by the Title IV-E agency either pursuing his/her removal
			 from the home or making reasonable efforts to prevent such removal.
(41) "Candidate for prevention services"
			 means a child, who is at imminent risk of removal from home, but is able to
			 remain in the home or with kin as long as state plan specified prevention
			 services for the child, parent, or kin caregiver are being provided by "Center
			 of Excellence" selected service providers.
(42) "Caregiver" is a person providing the
			 direct day-to-day care of a child during his placement in substitute
			 care.
(43) "Caretaker" is a person
			 with whom the child resides or the person responsible for the child's daily
			 care. This includes, but is not limited to, the parent, guardian, custodian or
			 out-of-home care setting employee.
(44) "Case" means the composition of
			 individuals grouped together for the purpose of providing and/or supervising,
			 and recording PCSA services. The group of individuals are associated to one
			 case reference name and one case number.
(45) "Case decision" means the PCSA's
			 determination of whether the case should be closed or continued for ongoing
			 PCSA services.
(46) "Case
			 disposition" means the determination of whether or not abuse or neglect has
			 occurred or is occurring and reflects the highest report disposition in the
			 following ranking order from highest to lowest:
(a) Substantiated.
(b) Indicated.
(c) Unsubstantiated.
(d) Family moved - unable to complete
			 assessment/investigation.
(e)
			 Family moved out of county - refer to appropriate PCSA.
(f) Unable to locate.
(47) "Case evaluation" means the analysis of
			 social, environmental and interactional information gathered during the
			 assessment/investigation of child abuse or neglect for the purpose of making a
			 report disposition/resolution, and developing a case plan, when
			 necessary.
(48) "Case management
			 services" are activities performed by the PCSA, PCPA, PNA, or Title IV-E agency
			 for the purpose of providing, recording and supervising services to a child and
			 his parent, guardian, custodian, caretaker or substitute caregiver.
(49) "Case members" means the persons
			 associated to a case for the purpose of provision of child protective
			 services.
(50) "Case plan" means a
			 written document developed by the PCSA, PCPA or Title IV-E agency and the
			 family which identifies strengths of the family, concerns to be resolved and
			 supportive services to be provided which will result in ensuring permanence for
			 the child.
(51) "Case plan for
			 direct placements" means a written document, developed by the PCPA or PNA in
			 conjunction with the family, which identifies strengths of the family, concerns
			 to be resolved and supportive services to be provided which will result in
			 ensuring permanence for the child.
(52) "Case record" means the permanent
			 documentation of the assessment/investigation and the provision of social
			 services to families and children maintained as hard copy files, electronic
			 files, or as a combination of both.
(53) "Casework services" are those services
			 performed or arranged by the PCSA, PCPA or Title IV-E agency to manage the
			 progress, provide supervision and protection of the child and his parent,
			 guardian or custodian.
(54)
			 "Caseworker" means a PCSA, PCPA or PNA staff person who is responsible for
			 provision of protective services or supportive services to the child and his
			 parent, guardian, custodian or substitute caregiver.
(55) "Central registry report" is the report
			 of an incident of alleged child abuse or neglect submitted by the PCSA to ODJFS
			 to determine whether prior reports have been made in other counties concerning
			 the child or other principals of the case.
(56) "Certificate" means a document
			 prescribed by ODJFS issued pursuant to Chapter 5103. of the Revised Code
			 authorizing an agency to perform specific functions or authorizing a foster
			 caregiver to care for children.
(57) "Certified foster home" means a foster
			 home operated by persons holding a certificate in force, issued under section
			 5103.03 of the Revised
			 Code.
(58) "Certified organization"
			 pursuant to section 5153.01 of the Revised Code
			 means any organization holding a certificate that is in full force and effect,
			 issued under section 5103.03 of the Revised
			 Code.
(59) "Chemical dependency",
			 pursuant to section 2151.3514 of the Revised Code,
			 means either of the following:
(a) The chronic
			 and habitual use of alcoholic beverages to the extent that the user can no
			 longer control the use of alcohol or endangers the user's health, safety, or
			 welfare or that of others.
(b) The
			 use of a drug of abuse, as defined in section
			 3719.011 of the Revised Code, to
			 the extent that the user becomes physically or psychologically dependent on the
			 drug or endangers the user's health, safety, or welfare or that of
			 others.
(60) "Chemical
			 restraint" means any substance given to a child to subdue or restrict movement
			 or behavior as punishment or for staff convenience. Chemical restraint is
			 prohibited by ODJFS.
(61) "Child"
			 means any person under eighteen years of age or a person under twenty-one years
			 of age who has a physical or mental impairment; mental or psychological
			 disorder such as an intellectual disability; physiological disorder or
			 condition.
(62) "Child abuse and
			 neglect memorandum of understanding" is a memorandum of understanding which
			 establishes the normal operating procedures and responsibilities to be
			 exercised by each participant regarding alleged child abuse and
			 neglect.
(63) "Child abuse and
			 neglect multidisciplinary teams" are groups organized to provide prevention,
			 identification, diagnosis, treatment and/or consultation on child abuse and
			 neglect.
(64) "Child care staff"
			 means any employee, volunteer or college intern whose duties involve the direct
			 face-to-face care of children as specified on the individual's job
			 description.
(65) "Child care
			 center" and "center" means any place child care is provided for thirteen or
			 more children at one time or any place that is not the permanent residence of
			 the licensee or administrator in which child care is provided for seven to
			 twelve children at one time. In counting children for the purposes of this
			 definition, any children under six years of age who are related to a licensee,
			 administrator or employee and are on the premises of the center shall be
			 counted.
(66) "Child in treatment
			 foster care" means a child having one or more special or exceptional needs as
			 described in rule
			 5101:2-47-18 of the
			 Administrative Code that substantially interfere with or limit the child's
			 functioning in family, school, or community activities.
(67) "Child protection and permanency
			 program" means the administration of a wide range of services identified
			 through the risk assessment process. The program can include the provision of
			 protective services, in-home supportive services, out-of-home care services and
			 adoption services coordinated and delivered on behalf of a child who has come
			 to the attention of the PCSA.
(68)
			 "Child service plan" or "service plan" means a goal-oriented, time-limited,
			 individualized program of action for a child and the family, specific to the
			 child's placement in a particular facility and separate from the case plan as
			 required by Chapters 5101:2-5 and 5101:2-39 of the Administrative Code,
			 developed by the placement facility in cooperation with the custody holding
			 agency or individual.
(69) "Child
			 stealing" is the illegal removal of a child from the parent, guardian or
			 custodian who has legal custody.
(70) "Child subject of the report" refers to
			 the child identified as the subject requiring an assessment or services in the
			 following types of reports:
(a)
			 Dependency.
(b) Alternative
			 response.
(c) Family in need of
			 services report.
(71)
			 "Children services agency" (CSA) is any agency or organization in another state
			 which has assumed the administration of the child welfare function prescribed
			 in its respective state statute.
(72) "Children's protective services" (CPS)
			 is a term used to describe a wide range of social services coordinated and
			 delivered on behalf of a child who is at risk, or is being or has been abused
			 or neglected.
(73) "Children's
			 residential center" (CRC) means a facility in which eleven or more children,
			 including the children of any staff residing at the facility, are given
			 non-secure care and supervision twenty-four hours a day.
(74) "Child vulnerability" means the degree
			 to which a child can avoid or modify the impact of safety threats or risk
			 concerns.
(75) "Collateral source"
			 means a person who provides or documents information concerning child abuse,
			 neglect, or dependency but is not a principal to the case or witness.
(76) "Community education service" is a range
			 of public information activities designed to increase the public's awareness of
			 child abuse or neglect and to promote appropriate utilization of
			 services.
(77) "Compact state"
			 means a state, U.S. commonwealth, possession or trust territory which is a
			 signatory to the interstate compact on the placement of children.
(78) "Comparable requirement" means a
			 nationally recognized accreditation organization's standard that equals or
			 exceeds Ohio Administrative Code (OAC) requirements.
(79) "Comprehensive Assessment and Planning
			 Model - Interim Solution" means a strength based and family centered model used
			 to support and document critical child protection decisions regarding child
			 safety, risk of child maltreatment, family functioning, and a family's ability
			 to resolve concerns.
(80)
			 "Comprehensive family assessment" is an ongoing exchange of information between
			 worker, family and collaterals to determine the strengths of the family and the
			 degree of risk and intervention necessary to keep a child safe. It organizes
			 and categorizes information focusing on the management of future risk or
			 maltreatment and is constantly being revised during the life of the
			 case.
(81) "Control" means the
			 focus of the safety plan, in response to any child in immediate danger of
			 serious harm, which serves to manage immediate safety threats and supplement
			 protective capacities.
(82)
			 "Co-parents" means adult individuals, related or unrelated, living together in
			 the same household and sharing parenting responsibilities.
(83) "Corrective action" is action taken to
			 correct or remediate situations which were identified as being the cause of a
			 child abuse or neglect incident.
(84) "Counseling" includes both of the
			 following:
(a) General counseling services
			 performed by a PCSA or shelter for victims of domestic violence to assist a
			 child, a child's parents, and a child's sibling in alleviating identified
			 problems that may cause or have caused the child to be an abused, neglected, or
			 dependent child.
(b) Psychiatric or
			 psychological therapeutic counseling services provided to correct or alleviate
			 any mental or emotional illness or disorder and performed by a licensed
			 psychiatrist, licensed psychologist, or person licensed under Chapter 4757. of
			 the Revised Code to engage in social work or professional counseling.
(85) "Court-appointed special
			 advocate" means a volunteer guardian ad litem appointed by the court who is
			 responsible for: researching the background of assigned child abuse, neglect
			 and dependency cases; representing the child's best interests; speaking for the
			 child in all hearings, reviews and other relevant case activities; monitoring
			 the child during the life of the case; and advocating for a safe and permanent
			 home for the child.
(86) "Court
			 order of priority placement" means a court order prepared by an Ohio judge or a
			 judge in another state, which designates that a specific child's interstate
			 placement shall be made on a priority basis in order to meet the special needs
			 of the child and to expedite the procedures between agencies and states
			 involved in the child's placement across state lines.
(87) "Courtesy supervision" means a type of
			 family in need of services report in which a request is made by a PCSA or CSA
			 to another PCSA or CSA for assistance in providing protective services to a
			 family who is residing in the jurisdiction of the second PCSA/CSA.
(88) "Credible information" means information
			 worthy of belief.
(89) "Criminal
			 records check" means any criminal records check conducted by the superintendent
			 of the bureau of criminal investigation (BCI) pursuant to section
			 109.572 of the Revised
			 Code.
(90) "Crisis services" are
			 services provided to families in crisis situations for the purpose of providing
			 an immediate or temporary solution to the presenting problem.
(91) "Custodian" means a person having legal
			 custody of a child or a PCSA, PCPA, or Title IV-E agency that has permanent,
			 temporary, or legal custody of a child.
(92) "Cultural competency" is a continuous
			 learning process that builds knowledge, awareness, skills and capacity to
			 identify, understand and respect the unique beliefs, values, customs,
			 languages, abilities and traditions of all Ohioans in order to develop policies
			 to promote effective programs and services.
(93) "Danger" means the likelihood of serious
			 harm to a child precipitated by one or more currently active safety threats and
			 arising from insufficient protective capacities.
(94) "Day camp" is a nonfacility-based
			 program in the outdoors providing children with creative, recreational, and
			 educational experiences in group living in a single-site natural environmental
			 area.
(95) "Day treatment services"
			 are services provided for a portion of the day for a child, living at home or
			 in substitute care, who is at risk, or is being or has been abused or
			 neglected, and who manifests emotional, psychological, behavioral, or social
			 problems which cannot be resolved in nonspecialized educational or
			 developmental settings, or in specialized settings such as learning behavioral
			 disabilities classes.
(96)
			 "Delinquent child" pursuant to section
			 2152.02 of the Revised Code
			 includes any child who does any of the following:
(a) Any child, except a juvenile traffic
			 offender, who violates any law of this state or the United States, or any
			 ordinance of a political subdivision of the state, that would be an offense if
			 committed by an adult;
(b) Any
			 child who violates any lawful order of the court made under this chapter or
			 under Chapter 2151. of the Revised Code other than an order issued under
			 section 2151.87 of the Revised
			 Code;
(c) Any child who violates
			 division (C) of section
			 2907.39, division (A) of section
			 2923.211, or division (C)(1) or
			 (D) of section 2925.55 of the Revised
			 Code;
(d) Any child who is a
			 habitual truant and who previously has been adjudicated an unruly child for
			 being a habitual truant;
(e) Any
			 child who is a chronic truant.
(97) "Denial or authorization to release
			 form" is either of the following:
(a) The
			 section of the JFS 01693, "Ohio Law and Adoption Materials" prescribed under
			 division (A)(1)(b) of section
			 3107.083 of the Revised Code
			 where the birth parent checked the "no" space provided in that
			 section.
(b) The form prescribed
			 under division (A)(1) of section
			 3107.50 of the Revised
			 Code.
(98) "Dependent
			 child" is as defined pursuant to section
			 2151.04 of the Revised
			 Code.
(99) "Deserted child" means a
			 child not older than thirty days, whose parent has voluntarily delivered the
			 child to an emergency medical service worker, peace officer, hospital employee
			 or a newborn safety incubator without expressing an intent to return for the
			 child and who, pursuant to sections
			 2151.3516 and
			 2151.3517 of the Revised Code,
			 has no apparent signs of abuse or neglect.
(100) "Developmental disability" is as
			 defined in section 5123.01 of the Revised
			 Code.
(101) "Diagnostic services"
			 are medical, psychiatric, or psychological services performed by a licensed
			 physician, psychiatrist, psychologist, and persons licensed under Chapter 4757.
			 of the Revised Code for the purpose of evaluating an individual's current
			 physical, emotional, or mental condition.
(102) "Direct placement" means the placement
			 of a child by the parent, guardian or legal custodian of the child, including
			 by court order, with the participation and agreement of an agency, into an
			 out-of-home care setting operated or supervised by the agency, with the parent,
			 guardian or legal custodian retaining legal custody of the child.
(103) "Disabled infant" is a child less than
			 one year of age who has a physical or mental disability which substantially
			 limits or may limit in the future one or more major life activities such as
			 self-care, receptive and expressive language, learning, and mobility.
(104) "Dispositional hearing," pursuant to
			 sections 2151.35 to
			 2151.355 and
			 2151.414 of the Revised Code,
			 means a hearing held by the juvenile court to determine what action shall be
			 taken concerning a child who is within the jurisdiction of the court.
(105) "Disruption" is the unplanned
			 interruption of a substitute care placement of a child which requires the
			 transfer of the child to a subsequent substitute care placement setting before
			 the goals of the child's case plan are achieved.
(106) "Domestic violence" pursuant to section
			 3113.33 of the Revised Code
			 means attempting to cause or causing bodily injury to a family or household
			 member, or placing a family or household member by threat of force in fear of
			 imminent physical harm.
(107) "Duly
			 authorized" is the established ongoing approval by a juvenile court, granting
			 the PCSA permission to remove a child who is at imminent risk when time does
			 not permit obtaining a court order or assistance from law
			 enforcement.
(108)
			 "Educational/vocational assistance" means counseling and other similar
			 assistance related to educational and vocational training, preparation for a
			 general equivalency diploma (GED) or for higher education, job readiness, job
			 search assistance, and placement program.
(109) "Effective denial of release form" is a
			 denial of release form that has not been rescinded by an authorization of
			 release form pursuant to division (B) of section
			 3107.46 of the Revised
			 Code.
(110) "Emancipation" is the
			 legal process of custody termination from a PCSA or PCPA on or after a youth
			 attains the age of eighteen.
(111)
			 "Emergency" means a situation where there is reason to believe that a child is
			 threatened or alleged to be abused, neglected, or dependent to an extent that
			 the child is in immediate danger of serious harm.
(112) "Emergency caretaker services" are
			 those services provided by a person placed within a child's own home to act as
			 a temporary caretaker when the child's own caretaker is unable or unwilling to
			 fulfill the responsibility.
(113)
			 "Emergency medical service worker" means a first responder, emergency medical
			 technician-basic, emergency medical technician-intermediate, or
			 paramedic.
(114) "Emergency
			 shelter" is the short-term crisis placement of any child who is threatened or
			 alleged to be abused, neglected, or dependent to an extent that there is
			 imminent risk to the child's life, physical or mental health, or
			 safety.
(115) "Emergency shelter
			 care facility" is a group home for children, a children's residential center
			 (CRC), or a portion of a CRC, which is certified to provide temporary emergency
			 nonsecure care for children.
(116)
			 "Employee" means any individual hired for wages by an agency.
(117) "Employment and training services" are
			 services designed to assist individuals in obtaining paid employment. Such
			 services may include, but not be limited to, the use of social, psychological,
			 and vocational diagnostic assessment, training, and placement.
(118) "Environmental management services" are
			 services offered to the child and his family or caretaker to improve physical
			 living conditions and provide emergency funds. Such services may be provided,
			 arranged, or ensured and may include, but not be limited to, housing repair,
			 housing location, exterminating rodents or insects, lead abatement or making
			 available financial assistance for outstanding utility bills.
(119) "Evidence based practice" are those
			 services which aim to provide the most effective care available to improve
			 recipient outcomes by using the best external evidence, professional expertise,
			 and recipient preferences. For the purpose of this definition evidence based
			 practices are those mental health, substance abuse, and parenting skill
			 programs rated by the title IV-E clearinghouse and approved for use by states
			 implementing family first prevention services.
(120) "Exigent circumstances" means an
			 emergency resulting from the conduct, conditions, or surroundings of the
			 children that would endanger their health, welfare, or safety and demands
			 immediate action by the PCSA.
(121)
			 "Ex parte emergency order" is an order issued by a juvenile judge or a
			 designated referee pursuant to section
			 2151.31 of the Revised Code
			 initiated and obtained by one party where other parties have not had advance
			 notice and the opportunity to be heard prior to the issuance of the order
			 authorizing the taking of a child into custody.
(122) "Family" means a group of people
			 related by blood or circumstances who may rely upon one another for sustenance,
			 support, security, and or socialization.
(123) "Family Case plan" means a written
			 document developed by the PCSA, PCPA or Title IV-E agency and the family which
			 identifies strengths of the family, concerns to be resolved, and supportive
			 services to be provided which will result in ensuring permanence for the
			 child.
(124) "Family foster home"
			 means a foster home that is not a specialized foster home.
(125) "Family in need of services" means an
			 intake category in which a request has been made for a PCSA to provide or Ohio
			 department of job and family services (ODJFS) to facilitate one or more of the
			 following types of services to a family:
(a)
			 Adoption subsidy only.
(b) Child
			 fatalities that are not a result of abuse or neglect.
(c) Courtesy supervision.
(d) Deserted child.
(e) Emancipated youth.
(f) Home evaluations/visitation
			 assessments.
(g) Interstate compact
			 on adoption and medical assistance (ICAMA).
(h) Interstate compact on the placement of
			 children (ICPC).
(i) Permanent
			 surrender.
(j) Post-finalization
			 services.
(k) Postnatal placement
			 services to infants of incarcerated mothers.
(l) Preventive services.
(m) Required non-lead PCSA
			 interviews.
(n) Stranger danger
			 investigations.
(o) Unruly or
			 delinquent youth.
(126)
			 "Family moved - unable to complete assessment/investigation" means the report
			 disposition when a PCSA cannot confirm or deny child abuse or neglect
			 allegations based upon a full assessment/investigation because the family moved
			 after the PCSA made contact with the family but the family's current
			 whereabouts are unknown or the family now lives out of state and a referral was
			 made to the child services agency where the family currently resides.
(127)
									"Family
			 preservation center" (FPC) requires a certificate obtained by actively being
			 licensed as either a children's crisis care facility, or a residential infant
			 care center.
(128) "Family
			 preservation services" means services for children and families designed to
			 help families (including adoptive and extended families) at risk or in crisis,
			 including:
(a) Service programs designed to
			 help children: return to their families from which they have been removed, if
			 determined to be safe and appropriate; or be placed for adoption, or with a
			 guardian; or if adoption or guardianship is determined not to be safe and
			 appropriate for a child, in some other planned permanent living
			 arrangement.
(b) Preplacement
			 preventive services programs, such as intensive family preservation programs,
			 designed to help children at risk of substitute care placement remain safely
			 with their families.
(c) Service
			 programs designed to provide follow-up care to families to whom a child has
			 been returned after a substitute care placement.
(d) Respite care of children to provide
			 temporary relief for parents and other caregivers (including foster
			 caregivers).
(e) Services designed
			 to improve parenting skills (by reinforcing parents' confidence in their
			 strengths, and helping them to identify where improvement is needed and to
			 obtain assistance in improving those skills) with respect to matters such as
			 child development, family budgeting, coping with stress, health, and
			 nutrition.
(129) "Family
			 Reunification Services" means the services and activities listed in this
			 paragraph that are provided to a child who is removed from his or her home and
			 placed in a foster home or a residential facility or a child who has been
			 returned home and to the parent, guardian or custodian of such a child, but
			 only during the fifteen month period that begins on the date the child returns
			 home. Allowable services and activities include the following:
(a) Individual, group, and family
			 counseling;
(b) Inpatient,
			 residential, or outpatient substance abuse treatment services;
(c) Mental health services;
(d) Assistance to address domestic
			 violence;
(e) Services designed to
			 provide temporary child care and therapeutic services for families, including
			 crisis care facilities;
(f)
			 Peer-to-peer mentoring and support groups for parents and primary
			 caregivers;
(g) Services and
			 activities designed to facilitate access to and visitation of children by
			 parents and siblings; and
(h)
			 Transportation to or from any of the services or activities described in this
			 definition.
(130) "Family support
			 services" for the purposes of utilizing Title IV-B, "subpart 2" means
			 community-based services to promote the safety and wellbeing of children and
			 families, which are designed to increase the strength and stability of families
			 (including adoptive, foster, and kin), to support and retain foster families so
			 they can provide quality family based settings for children in foster care, to
			 increase parents' confidence and competence in their parenting abilities, to
			 afford children a safe, stable and supportive family environment, to strengthen
			 parental relationships and promote healthy marriages, and otherwise to enhance
			 child development, including through mentoring.
(131) "Federal fiscal
			 year" means the period of time between October first of one year and September
			 thirtieth of the following year.
(132) "Final decree
			 of adoption" includes an interlocutory order of adoption that has become
			 final.
(133) "Foster care
			 for medically fragile children" means foster caregiver-based treatment services
			 for children whose intensive health care needs cannot be met in their own home.
			 Foster care for medically fragile children focuses rehabilitative services on
			 medically fragile children and their families with the primary location of
			 treatment in a medically fragile foster home.
(134) "Foster
			 caregiver" means a person holding a valid foster home certificate issued by
			 ODJFS.
(135) "Foster care
			 maintenance" is an individual entitlement for financial assistance for board
			 and care of children who meet the eligibility requirements contained in Chapter
			 5101:2-47 of the Administrative Code, who are in the placement and care of a
			 Title IV-E agency and are in an approved substitute care placement.
(136) "Foster child"
			 means a child placed in a foster home who is not the natural or adopted child
			 or other legal ward of the foster caregiver.
(137) "Foster home"
			 means a private residence in which children are received apart from their
			 parents, guardian, or legal custodian, by an individual reimbursed for
			 providing the children non-secure care, supervision, or training twenty-four
			 hours a day. "Foster home" does not include care provided for a child in the
			 home of a person other than the child's parent, guardian, or legal custodian
			 while the parent, guardian, or legal custodian is temporarily away. Family
			 foster homes, pre-adoptive infant foster homes and specialized foster homes are
			 types of foster homes.
(138) "Group home" is
			 a public or private facility which provides placement services for children and
			 is licensed, regulated, approved, operated under the direction of, or otherwise
			 certified as a group home by ODJFS, the Ohio department of education, a local
			 board of education, the Ohio department of youth services, the Ohio department
			 of mental health, a county board of mental health, the Ohio department of
			 developmental disabilities, a county board of developmental disabilities, or a
			 political subdivision.
(139) "Group home for
			 children" referred to in Chapter 5101:2-5 of the Administrative Code as "group
			 home" means any facility, public or private, which meets all of the following
			 criteria:
(a) Gives a maximum of ten children,
			 including the children of the operator or any staff who reside in the facility,
			 nonsecure care and supervision twenty-four hours a day for hire, gain, or
			 reward by a person or persons who are unrelated to such children by blood or
			 marriage, or who is not the appointed guardian of such children. Any individual
			 who provides care for children from only a single-family group, placed there by
			 their parents or other relative having custody, shall not be considered as
			 being a group home for children.
(b) Is not certified as a foster
			 home.
(c) Receives or cares for
			 children for two or more consecutive weeks.
(140) "Guardian"
			 means a person, association, or corporation that is granted authority by a
			 probate court pursuant to Chapter 2111. of the Revised Code to exercise
			 parental rights over a child to the extent provided in the court's order and
			 subject to the residual parental rights of the child's parents.
(141) "Guardian ad
			 litem" is a guardian appointed by the juvenile court to represent and protect
			 the best interest of an alleged or adjudicated abused, neglected, or dependent
			 child.
(142) "Habilitation"
			 is the process by which the staff of the facility or agency assists an
			 individual with a developmental disability to acquire and maintain those life
			 skills which enable the individual to cope more effectively with the demands of
			 the individual's own person and environment, and in raising the level of the
			 individual's personal, physical, mental, social, and vocational efficiency.
			 Habilitation includes, but is not limited to, programs of formal structured
			 education and training.
(143) "Handicapped
			 person" is an individual with a physical or mental disability.
(144) "Harm" (for the
			 purpose of utilizing the "Comprehensive Assessment and Planning Model - Interim
			 Solution") means the consequence of maltreatment and refers to the nature of
			 the injury or trauma affecting the child.
(145) "Health care
			 facility" is any public or private hospital or institution offering maternity
			 services, or services to premature disabled infants, or services to disabled
			 newborns.
(146) "Health care
			 facility designee" is the person named by the health care facility to act as
			 the contact with the PCSA in all cases when there is an allegation that a
			 disabled infant with life-threatening conditions is a neglected child as
			 defined in division (A) of section
			 2151.03 of the Revised Code due
			 to the withholding of appropriate nutrition, hydration, medication, or
			 medically indicated treatment.
(147) "Health care
			 facility review committee" is an infant care review committee, an institutional
			 bioethics committee, or another entity established to deal with medical, legal,
			 and ethical dilemmas arising in the care of patients within a health care
			 facility.
(148) "Health care professional" means any physician
			 as defined in this rule or a registered or licensed practical nurse who holds a
			 valid license issued under Chapter 4723. of the Revised Code.
(149) "Help me grow"
			 early intervention services means developmental services selected in
			 collaboration with the parents of a child, birth through age two, who is
			 eligible for services under part C of the Individuals with Disabilities
			 Education Act (November 2011), and designed to meet the developmental needs of
			 the child and the needs of the child's family to assist appropriately in the
			 child's development as identified in the individualized family service
			 plan.
(150) "Hire, gain, or
			 reward" means any form of compensation made available to the person providing
			 care and supervision to a child.
(151) "Home
			 evaluation/visitation assessments" means a type of family in need of services
			 intake. A home evaluation means the collection of information requested by a
			 court, other PCSA, or CSA regarding a prospective caregiver and his/her ability
			 to provide care to a child. A visitation assessment means a summary of
			 information regarding visitations between the child(ren) and parent or other
			 individual(s) as ordered by a court or requested by a PCSA.
(152) "Home health
			 aide services" means the personal care and maintenance activities provided to
			 individuals for the purpose of promoting normal standards of health and
			 hygiene.
(153) "Homemaker
			 services" means the professionally directed or supervised simple household
			 maintenance or management services provided by trained homemakers or
			 individuals to families in their own homes.
(154) "Hospital" is
			 as defined in either section
			 3727.01 or section
			 5122.01 of the Revised
			 Code.
(155) "Hospital
			 employee" means any of the following:
(a) A
			 physician who has been granted privileges to practice at the
			 hospital.
(b) A nurse, physician
			 assistant, or nursing assistant employed by the hospital.
(c) An authorized person employed by the
			 hospital who is acting under the direction of a physician that has been granted
			 privileges to practice at the hospital.
(156)
			 "Hotline/answering service" is a communication system which allows child abuse
			 or neglect reports to be received twenty-four hours per day, seven days per
			 week.
(157) "Household"
			 means a private residence including the members of the family living therein
			 and/or unrelated individuals living in the same residence and sharing common
			 living areas.
(158) "Identifying
			 information" as used in adoption is as defined in section
			 3107.01 of the Revised
			 Code.
(159) "Independent
			 interstate placement" is the act of placing a child, by his parents or non
			 agency legal guardian, across state boundaries into placement for foster care
			 or placement for adoption.
(160) "Independent
			 living arrangement" means any living environment provided by an agency
			 including service programs and activities to assist youth fourteen years of age
			 and older to make the transition from substitute care to adulthood. If a youth
			 who is sixteen or seventeen years of age is placed in an independent living
			 arrangement, the youth shall be placed in housing that is supervised or
			 semi-supervised by an adult per section
			 2151.82 of the Revised
			 Code.
(161) "Indicated"
			 means the report disposition in which there is circumstantial or other isolated
			 indicators of child abuse or neglect lacking confirmation; or a determination
			 by the caseworker that the child may have been abused or neglected based upon
			 completion of an assessment/investigation.
(162) "Infant" means
			 any child from birth to eighteen months of age.
(163) "Information
			 and referral services" means services which may assist any person in locating
			 or using available and appropriate resources or both.
(164) "Information
			 and/or referral" means an intake category in which information is provided to
			 any person to assist in locating or using available and appropriate resources
			 or both.
(165) "In-home safety
			 plan" is a voluntary safety plan developed with a family in response to an
			 active safety threat. It is designed to enable a child to remain in his or her
			 own home. An in-home safety plan is the least restrictive type of safety
			 plan.
(166) "In-home
			 services" are a range of supportive services provided to children and families
			 in their own homes.
(167) "Initial
			 report" is a report of information supplied to the PCSA by the
			 reporter.
(168) "Intake" means
			 a function of the PCSA through which referrals of: alleged child abuse,
			 neglect, dependency and family in need of services are received, screened, and
			 prioritized; and information and/or referral is categorized.
(169) "Intake
			 category" means each of the following divisions for the classification of
			 referral information:
(a) "Child
			 Abuse/Neglect" means an abused child as defined in this rule or a neglected
			 child as defined in this rule.
(b)
			 "Dependency" means a dependent child as defined in this rule.
(c) Family in need of services.
(d) Information and/or referral.
(170) "Interlocutory
			 order of adoption" is an order of the court issued pursuant to section
			 3107.14 of the Revised Code
			 which automatically becomes a final decree of adoption upon the date specified
			 in the order.
(171) "Intern" means
			 any individual who on behalf of a college, university, or another organization
			 whether paid or unpaid, is providing services for an agency.
(172) "Interstate
			 children's protective services referral" is an out-of-state report concerning
			 alleged, indicated, or substantiated child abuse or neglect made or accepted by
			 a PCSA.
(173) "Interstate
			 compact on adoption and medical assistance (ICAMA)" is an interstate compact
			 which formalizes cooperation among party states and provides the standardized
			 procedures for arranging for medical assistance and services for adopted
			 special needs children and their families when there is a state adoption
			 assistance agreement or a federal adoption assistance agreement in
			 effect.
(174) "Interstate
			 compact on the placement of children (ICPC)" is a uniform law enacted by states
			 and jurisdictions of the United States, establishing orderly procedures for the
			 interstate placement of children across state lines and assigning
			 responsibilities for those involved in placing children.
(175) "Interstate
			 placement" is the arrangement made by a sending agency, for the care of a child
			 to be sent from Ohio to another state or from another state into Ohio, which
			 care is to be provided by a foster home, home of a parent or parents, relative
			 home, child-care institution, or adoptive home. This definition does not
			 include any of the following types of placements:
(a) Placements into a facility caring for the
			 mentally, intellectually, or developmentally disabled; a facility that is
			 primarily educational in nature; or a hospital or other medical
			 facility.
(b) The sending or
			 bringing of a child into a receiving state by his parent, stepparent,
			 grandparent, adult brother or sister, adult uncle or aunt, or nonagency legal
			 guardian, and leaving the child with any such relative or nonagency legal
			 guardian in the receiving state.
(c) Placement of a child across state lines
			 by a court as an incident to a divorce.
(d) Placement of a child into Ohio for a
			 period of time not exceeding thirty calendar days, if the sending agency, when
			 the sending agency is other than a parent or non agency legal guardian, has
			 notified the agency in the county where the child will be visiting of the
			 following:
(i) That the child will be
			 visiting.
(ii) The child's date of
			 arrival.
(iii) The anticipated
			 length of the child's visit.
(e) Placement of a child who is subject to an
			 agreement for temporary custody.
(176) "Intra-familial
			 assessment/investigation" means an assessment/investigation conducted by a PCSA
			 in response to a child abuse and/or neglect report and includes an alleged
			 perpetrator who is one or more of the following:
(a) Is a member of the alleged child victim's
			 family.
(b) Has sanctioned or
			 continued access to the alleged child victim.
(c) Is involved in daily or regular care for
			 the alleged child victim, excluding a person responsible for the care of a
			 child in an out-of-home care setting.
(177) "Intrastate
			 children's protective services referral" is a report concerning alleged,
			 indicated, or substantiated child abuse and neglect made by one Ohio PCSA to
			 another Ohio PCSA for the purpose of requesting the provision of protective
			 services.
(178) "Investigation"
			 is a fact-finding process which includes interviews, observations, and other
			 forms of information gathering. Information collected during the investigation
			 provides data upon which to make a case resolution/disposition regarding a
			 report of alleged child abuse or neglect.
(179) "Items of
			 identification" include a motor vehicle driver's or commercial driver's
			 license, an identification card issued under sections
			 4507.50 to
			 4507.52 of the Revised Code, a
			 marriage application, a social security card, a credit card, a military
			 identification card, or an employee identification card.
(180) "Kin" or
			 "Kinship caregiver" means the following:
(a)
			 Individuals related by blood or adoption:
(i)
			 Parents, grandparents, including grandparents with the prefix "great,"
			 "great-great," "grand," or "great-grand."
(ii) Siblings.
(iii) Aunts, uncles, nephews, and nieces,
			 including such relative with the prefix "great," "great-great," or
			 "great-grand."
(iv) Cousins and
			 first cousins once removed.
(b) Stepparents and stepsiblings.
(c) Spouses and former spouses of individuals
			 named in paragraph (B)(170)(a) of this rule.
(d) Any non-relative adult the current
			 custodial caretaker or child identifies as having a familiar and long-standing
			 relationship/bond with the child and/or the family which will ensure the
			 child's social ties.
(181) "Legal custody"
			 means a legal status vesting in the custodian the right to have physical care
			 and control of the child and to determine where and with whom the child shall
			 live, and the right and duty to protect, train, and discipline the child and to
			 provide the child with food, shelter, education, and medical care, all subject
			 to any residual parental rights, privileges, and responsibilities. An
			 individual granted legal custody shall exercise the rights and responsibilities
			 personally unless otherwise authorized by any section of the Revised Code or by
			 the court.
(182) "Licensing
			 authority" is the governmental body responsible for carrying out a department's
			 licensing and regulatory functions, including monitoring compliance with
			 applicable state laws and departmental rules by agencies, individuals,
			 organizations, facilities, or other service providers licensed or certified by
			 that body.
(183) "Lifebook" is a
			 record of the child's life which helps identify events in the child's past,
			 including what happened while in agency care. The record shall include a
			 chronological listing of such events and relationships in the child's life.
			 Photographs may be used to depict events in the life book.
(184) "Life skills
			 assessment" is an evaluation of the strengths and needs regarding the life and
			 personal skill development of a child in order to determine his current level
			 of independence and the services required to help the child become a
			 self-sufficient adult.
(185) "Life skills
			 services" are a series of developmentally appropriate services or activities
			 that provide an opportunity for a child to gain the skills needed to live a
			 self-sufficient adult life pursuant to rule
			 5101:2-42-19 of the
			 Administrative Code.
(186)
			 "Life-threatening condition" is any condition in which a disabled infant would
			 die unless medical or corrective surgical treatment is provided.
(187) "Linkage and
			 practice" means coordination with other components of the independent living
			 program.
(188) "Living unit"
			 means one of the following:
(a) A group
			 home.
(b) Individual houses or
			 cottages, with a capacity of no more than twenty children, each of which
			 contain bedrooms, bathrooms, living room or lounge, and may contain a kitchen
			 or designated eating area.
(c) A
			 floor or specific parts of a floor with a capacity of no more than twenty
			 children and which contains bedrooms, bathrooms, living room or lounge, other
			 activity space as required by rule
			 5101:2-9-26 of the
			 Administrative Code, and may contain a kitchen or designated eating
			 area.
(189) "Managed care"
			 refers to contracted service providers that have full responsibility for case
			 planning and case management. It does not include contracted service providers
			 that provide services while the public children services agency maintains
			 decision making and case management responsibilities for the case or the
			 child.
(190) "Management
			 information system" is the electronic method of arranging client, case and
			 service data for storage and retrieval.
(191) "Mechanical
			 restraint" means any device used to prevent or restrict movement as punishment
			 or for staff convenience. Mechanical restraint is prohibited by
			 ODJFS.
(192) "Medical
			 consultant" is a licensed, board-certified, and practicing pediatrician, or
			 neonatologist.
(193) "Medical
			 diagnosis" is the evaluation of a child examined by a licensed physician to
			 determine if abuse or neglect is medically indicated.
(194) "Medically
			 fragile child" means a person from birth through twenty-one years of age who
			 has intensive health care needs that can be met in a medically fragile foster
			 home.
(195) "Medically
			 fragile foster caregiver" means a person who has been specifically trained and
			 certified pursuant to rules
			 5101:2-5-20 to
			 5101:2-5-37 and
			 5101:2-7-02 to
			 5101:2-7-17 of the
			 Administrative Code to provide foster care and other services for medically
			 fragile children placed in the caregiver's medically fragile foster
			 home.
(196) "Medically
			 fragile foster home" means a foster home providing specialized medical services
			 designed to meet the needs of children with intensive health care needs as
			 identified in section
			 5103.02 of the Revised
			 Code.
(197) "Mental
			 illness" is as defined in section
			 5122.01 of the Revised
			 Code.
(198) "Mental injury"
			 means any behavioral, cognitive, emotional, or mental disorder in a child
			 caused by an act or omission that is described in section
			 2919.22 of the Revised Code and
			 is committed by the parent or other person responsible for the child's
			 care.
(199) "Mentally ill
			 person subject to court order" is as defined in section
			 5122.01 of the Revised
			 Code.
(200) "Mentor" is an
			 individual who is specifically trained and assigned to a child or family to
			 assist the child or family deal with or learn to deal with day-to-day living
			 situations.
(201) "Neglected
			 child" pursuant to Chapter 2151. of the Revised Code includes any child:
(a) Who is abandoned by the child's parents,
			 guardian, or custodian.
(b) Who
			 lacks adequate parental care because of the faults or habits of the child's
			 parents, guardian, or custodian.
(c) Whose parents, guardian, or custodian
			 neglects the child or refuses to provide proper or necessary subsistence,
			 education, medical or surgical care or treatment, or other care necessary for
			 the child's health, morals, or well being.
(d) Whose parents, guardian, or custodian
			 neglects the child or refuses to provide the special care made necessary by the
			 child's mental condition.
(e) Whose
			 parents, legal guardian, or custodian have placed or attempted to place the
			 child in violation of sections
			 5103.16 and
			 5103.17 of the Revised
			 Code.
(f) Who, because of the
			 omission of the child's parents, guardian, or custodian, suffers physical or
			 mental injury harming or threatening to harm the child's health or
			 welfare.
(g) Who is subject to
			 out-of-home care child neglect.
(h)
			 Nothing in Chapter 2151. of the Revised Code shall be construed as subjecting a
			 parent, guardian, or custodian of a child to criminal liability when soley in
			 the practice of religious beliefs, the parent, guardian, or custodian fails to
			 provide adequate medical or surgical care or treatment for the child.
(202) "Nonidentifying
			 information" as used in adoption is as defined in section
			 3107.60 of the Revised
			 Code.
(203) "Nonrelative"
			 for the purposes of selecting a substitute care setting for the placement of a
			 child means an individual identified by the current custodial caretaker or
			 child as having a familiar and longstanding relationship with the child or the
			 family.
(204) "Nonsecure
			 care, supervision, training" means care, supervision, or training of a child in
			 a facility that does not confine or prevent movement of the child within the
			 facility or from the facility.
(205) "Organization"
			 is as defined in section
			 2151.011 of the Revised
			 Code.
(206) "Out-of-home
			 care" is as defined in section
			 2151.011 of the Revised
			 Code.
(207) "Out-of-home
			 care child abuse" pursuant to section
			 2151.011 of the Revised Code,
			 means any of the following when committed by a person responsible for the care
			 of a child in out-of-home care:
(a) Engaging
			 in sexual activity with a child in the person's care.
(b) Denial to a child, as a means of
			 punishment, of proper or necessary subsistence, education, medical care, or
			 other care necessary for a child's health.
(c) Use of restraint procedures on a child
			 that cause injury or pain.
(d)
			 Administration of prescription drugs or psychotropic medication to the child
			 without the written approval and ongoing supervision of a licensed
			 physician.
(e) Commission of any
			 act, other than by accidental means, that results in any injury to or death of
			 the child in out-of-home care or commission of any act by accidental means that
			 results in an injury to or death of a child in out-of-home care and that is at
			 variance with the history given of the injury or death.
(208) "Out-of-home
			 care child neglect," pursuant to section
			 2151.011 of the Revised Code,
			 means any of the following when committed by a person responsible for the care
			 of a child in out-of-home care:
(a) Failure to
			 provide reasonable supervision according to the standards of care appropriate
			 to the age, mental and physical condition, or other special needs of the
			 child.
(b) Failure to provide
			 reasonable supervision according to the standards of care appropriate to the
			 age, mental and physical condition, or other special needs of the child, that
			 results in sexual or physical abuse of the child by any person.
(c) Failure to develop a process for all of
			 the following:
(i) Administration of
			 prescription drugs or psychotropic drugs for the child.
(ii) Assuring that the instructions of the
			 licensed physician who prescribed a drug for the child are followed.
(iii) Reporting to the licensed physician who
			 prescribed the drug all unfavorable or dangerous side effects from the use of
			 the drug.
(d) Failure to
			 provide proper or necessary subsistence, education, medical care, or other
			 individualized care necessary for the health or well-being of the
			 child.
(e) Confinement of the child
			 to a locked room without monitoring by staff.
(f) Failure to provide ongoing security for
			 all prescription and nonprescription medication.
(g) Isolation of a child for a period of time
			 when there is substantial risk that the isolation, if continued, will impair or
			 retard the mental health or physical well-being of the child.
(209) "Out-of-home
			 care setting" is a detention facility, shelter facility, foster home,
			 pre-finalized adoptive placement, certified foster home, approved foster care,
			 organization, certified organization, child care center, type A family day-care
			 home, type B family day-care home, group home, institution, state institution,
			 residential facility, residential care facility, residential camp, day camp,
			 hospital, medical clinic, children's residential center, public or nonpublic
			 school, or respite home that is responsible for the care, physical custody, or
			 control of a child.
(210) "Out-of-home
			 safety plan" is a voluntary safety plan developed with a family in response to
			 an active safety threat. It is designed to enable a child to remain in the
			 legal custody of his parent, guardian, or custodian while residing with a
			 relative or kin outside of his or her own home.
(211) "Outreach"
			 means establishment of a system of outreach which would encourage children and
			 families to participate in services; and develop community organizational
			 efforts and ongoing support networks for children and families.
(212) "Parent aide
			 services" are those supportive services provided by a person assigned to
			 families as a role model, and to provide family support for a portion of the
			 twenty-four hour day.
(213) "Parent
			 education" is a teaching process to assist a parent, guardian, or custodian in
			 developing the basic skills necessary to provide adequate care and support to a
			 child in his own home.
(214) "Parental
			 rights" is the authority of a child's parents to make all decisions regarding
			 the child's care and control including, but not limited to, the determination
			 of where and with whom the child shall live and the right to protect, train,
			 and discipline the child and provide the child with food, shelter, education,
			 and medical care.
(215) "Peace officer"
			 means a sheriff, deputy sheriff, constable, police officer of a township or
			 joint township police district, marshal, deputy marshal, municipal police
			 officer, or a state highway patrol trooper.
(216) "Permanent
			 alternative placement" is a planned placement for a child, when it has been
			 determined he cannot return to the child's own home, including adoption,
			 custody to kin, independent living, or planned permanent living
			 arrangement.
(217) "Permanency
			 plan" shall have the same meaning as the case plan.
(218) "Permanent
			 commitment" is an order of a juvenile court exercising jurisdiction, pursuant
			 to section 2151.353,
			 2151.354, or
			 2151.414 of the Revised Code,
			 which grants permanent custody of a child to a PCSA or PCPA.
(219) "Permanent
			 custody" is as defined in section
			 2151.011 of the Revised
			 Code.
(220) "Person
			 responsible for a child's care in out-of-home care" means any of the persons
			 named below, but does not include a prospective employee of the department of
			 youth services, or a person responsible for a child's care in a hospital or
			 medical clinic other than a children's hospital.
(a) Any foster caregiver, in-home aide, or
			 provider.
(b) Any administrator,
			 employee, or agent of any of the following: a public or private detention
			 facility; shelter facility; organization; certified organization; child care
			 center; type A family child care home; licensed type B family child care home;
			 group home; institution; state institution; residential facility; residential
			 care facility; residential camp; day camp; hospital; or medical
			 clinic.
(c) Any other person
			 performing a similar function with respect to, or has a similar relationship
			 to, children.
(221) "Physical
			 restraint" means a therapeutic holding technique(s) with the intent to minimize
			 or prevent harm when the child has lost control of his or her actions in such a
			 way as to threaten harm to self or others. Physical restraint shall not be used
			 as a planned intervention until after other less restrictive procedures or
			 measures have been explored and found to be inappropriate. At no time shall
			 physical restraint be used as punishment or for staff convenience.
(222) " Physical
			 impairment" is as defined in section
			 2151.011 of the Revised
			 Code.
(223) "Physician"
			 means an individual licensed to practice medicine and surgery or osteopathic
			 medicine and surgery by the state medical board or by a comparable body in
			 another state.
(224) "Placement for
			 adoption" is as defined in section
			 2151.011 of the Revised
			 Code.
(225) "Placement in
			 foster care" is as defined in section
			 2151.011 of the Revised
			 Code.
(226) "Plan of safe
			 care" means an arrangement that addresses the immediate safety of the substance
			 exposed and/or substance affected infant, the treatment needs of the infant,
			 the health and substance use disorder treatment needs of the affected family or
			 caregiver. The plan is developed with the parents or other caregivers, as well
			 as the collaborating professional partners and agencies involved in caring for
			 the infant and family. The plan includes but is not limited to the following:
(a) Basic identifying information of the
			 infant and caregiver(s): name, date of birth, and address.
(b) Hospital or medical facility where the
			 infant is being treated: name, address, contact person, physician.
(c) Medical information on the infant:
			 treating medical personnel (doctor, specialists), current diagnosis,
			 prescription medication, therapies or treatment.
(d) Health and substance use of mother,
			 father and/or caregiver: diagnosis, prescribed medications, alcohol or drug
			 treatment provider(s), treatment plan, and contact information of
			 all.
(227) "Plan for
			 practice advancement" is a specific plan required by ODJFS which is developed,
			 implemented and completed by a PCSA to address review findings and areas of
			 improvement to enhance the condition of the child protection system.
(228) "Planned
			 permanent living arrangement" is as defined in section
			 2151.011 of the Revised
			 Code.
(229)
			 "Post-finalization services" or "post-finalization adoption services" means
			 services provided or arranged by the PCSA, PCPA or PNA to support, maintain and
			 assist an adopted child, adoptive family or birth parent anytime after
			 finalization of an adoption.
(230) "Practitioner
			 of behavior science" means an individual licensed or credentialed by the state
			 of Ohio having within their scope of practice the assessment and treatment of
			 psychological, developmental and behavioral disorders of children.
(231) "Pre-adoptive
			 infant foster home" means a foster home for the care of a child who is in the
			 custody of a PCSA or PCPA pursuant to an agreement entered into under section
			 5103.15 of the Revised Code
			 regarding a child who was less than six months of age on the date the agreement
			 was executed.
(232) "Pre-adoptive
			 family" means a parent(s) who has signed an adoptive placement agreement for
			 which the placement has not been finalized in court.
(233)
			 "Pre-finalization services" or "pre-finalization adoption services" means
			 services provided or arranged by the PCSA, PCPA or PNA to support and assist a
			 child and adoptive family from the date of adoptive placement until the
			 issuance of a final decree of adoption.
(234) "Pre-finalized
			 adoptive parent" is an adoptive parent with whom a PCSA or PCPA has placed a
			 child for adoption and who has entered into an adoptive placement agreement but
			 for whom an adoption has not been finalized in court.
(235) "Pre-finalized
			 adoptive placement" is the placement of a child in an adoptive home with an
			 adoptive placement agreement in effect, for whom the court has not issued a
			 final decree of adoption.
(236) "Pre-placement
			 preventive services" are those services designed to alleviate family problems
			 which would otherwise result in the child's removal from the home.
(237) "Preschool age
			 child" means any child from three years of age to five years of age.
(238) "Pre-service
			 training program" means a training program designed to provide caregivers with
			 an understanding of the needs of an abused, neglected, or dependent child, or a
			 child with special needs.
(239) "Prevention
			 Services Plan" means a written document in the "Prevention Services" case
			 category or a "Family Case Plan" in the "Ongoing" case category in SACWIS
			 developed with the family, to provide supportive services to the family, and
			 aid in reducing risk of maltreatment including at least one Ohio IV-E plan
			 recognized "evidenced based practice service" being rendered by a "Center of
			 Excellence" selected provider.
(240) "Preventive
			 services" means a type of family in need of services intake which describes
			 services provided by the PCSA aimed at promoting awareness or preventing child
			 abuse and neglect which have been requested by and provided to children and
			 families who have no current allegations of child abuse, neglect, or
			 dependency.
(241) "Priority
			 placement" means a placement status, based upon the findings by an Ohio court
			 or a court in another state, designating that a specific child's interstate
			 placement shall be made on a priority basis in order to meet the special needs
			 of the child and to expedite the procedures between agencies and states
			 involved in the child's placement across state lines.
(242) "Principals of
			 the report" are the alleged child victim or the child subject of the report,
			 the parent or caretaker and the alleged perpetrator or the adult subject of the
			 report.
(243) "Private child
			 placing agency (PCPA)" means any association, as defined in section
			 5103.02 of the Revised Code,
			 certified pursuant to section
			 5103.03 of the Revised Code to
			 accept temporary, permanent, or legal custody of children and place the
			 children for either foster care or adoption.
(244) "Private
			 non-custodial agency (PNA)" means any person, organization, association, or
			 society certified by ODJFS that does not accept temporary or permanent legal
			 custody of children, that is privately operated in this state, and that does
			 one or more of the following:
(a) Receives and
			 cares for children for two or more consecutive weeks;
(b) Participates in the placement of children
			 in certified foster homes;
(c)
			 Provides adoption services in conjunction with a PCSA or PCPA.
(245) "Private,
			 nonprofit therapeutic wilderness camp" is as defined in section
			 5103.02 of the Revised
			 Code.
(246) "Professional
			 treatment staff" 
									has the same meaning and function as specified in
			 sections 5103.57,
			 5103.58 and
			 5103.59 of the Revised
			 Code.
(247) "Prospective
			 employee" means a person who is under final consideration for appointment or
			 employment with a PCSA, a PCPA or a PNA as an administrator, caseworker, child
			 care staff or other person in a position responsible for a child's care in
			 out-of-home care, including those directly employed by the agency as well as
			 those under contract with another person or entity. "Prospective employee" does
			 not include a prospective foster caregiver.
(248) "Protective
			 capacities" means family strengths or resources that reduce, control, or
			 prevent threats of serious harm from arising or having an unsafe impact on a
			 child.
(249) "Protective
			 day-care services" are services provided for a portion of the twenty-four-hour
			 day for the direct care and protection of children who have been harmed or
			 threatened with harm, or who are at risk of abuse, neglect, or exploitation due
			 to a psychological or social problem, or physical or mental disability of a
			 caretaker parent, or whose health or welfare is otherwise jeopardized by their
			 home environment.
(250) "Protective
			 services" is a term used to describe a wide range of supportive services
			 coordinated and delivered on behalf of children at risk of abuse or
			 neglect.
(251) "Protective
			 services alert" means a notice prepared by a PCSA or CSA which contains
			 allegations that a child may be at risk of abuse or neglect, when the current
			 whereabouts of the child and caretaker are unknown.
(252) "Protective
			 supervision," pursuant to section
			 2151.011 of the Revised Code,
			 means an order of disposition pursuant to which the court permits an abused,
			 neglected, dependent, or unruly child to remain in the custody of the child's
			 parent, guardian, or custodian and stay in the child's own home, subject to any
			 conditions and limitations upon the child, the child's parents, guardian, or
			 custodian, or any other person that the court prescribes, including supervision
			 as directed by the court for the protection of the child.
(253) "Public
			 children services agency (PCSA)" means an entity specified in section
			 5153.02 of the Revised Code that
			 has assumed the powers and duties of the children services function prescribed
			 by Chapter 5153. of the Revised Code for a county.
(254) "Putative
			 father" is as defined in section
			 3107.01 of the Revised
			 Code.
(255) "Putative
			 father registry" is a registry established and maintained by the ODJFS to allow
			 a putative father to register should he wish to be given notice of a petition
			 to adopt a minor he claims as his child. The registry will allow a mother,
			 agency or attorney to search and either confirm or deny if a child has a
			 registered putative father and thus shall be contacted prior to finalization of
			 the adoption.
(256) "Qualified
			 non-citizen" is a person who at the time of application for or in receipt of
			 Title IV-E foster care maintenance, adoption assistance or independent living
			 services is:
(a) Lawfully admitted for
			 permanent residence under the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), codified
			 at 8 U.S.C.
			 1255 (amended 12/23/08).
(b) An asylee who has been granted asylum
			 under section 208 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) (as in effect
			 October 1, 2019); or
(c) A refugee
			 admitted to the United States under section 207 of the INA (as in effect
			 October 1, 2019); or
(d) A parolee
			 allowed into the United States under section 212(d)(5) of the INA (as in effect
			 October 1, 2019) for a period of at least one year; or
(e) A person whose deportation is being
			 withheld under section 243(h) of the INA (as in effect prior to April 1, 1997)
			 or whose removal has been withheld under section 241(b)(3) of the INA (as in
			 effect October 1, 2019); or
(f) A
			 person granted conditional entry pursuant to section 203(a)(7) of the INA (as
			 in effect prior to April 1, 1980); or
(g) A Cuban or Haitian entrant as defined in
			 section 501(e) of the Refugee Education Assistance Act of 1980; or
(h) An Amerasian immigrant as defined in
			 Section 584 of the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs
			 Appropriations Act of 1988 (
			 Pub. L. No.
			 100-202 ); or
(i) A non-citizen or non-citizen's child who
			 has been battered or subjected to extreme cruelty in the United States under
			 Section
			 501 of
			 Pub. L. No.
			 104-208, under certain circumstances as defined in
			 8 U.S.C.
			 1641(c) (as in effect
			 October 1, 2019); or
(j) An Afghan
			 or Iraqi non-citizen granted special immigrant visa status under Section 8120
			 of the December 19, 2009 Defense Appropriations Bill (
			 Pub. L. No.
			 111-118 ) and section 101(a)(27) of the INA (as in
			 effect October 1, 2019).
(257)
									"Qualified
			 residential treatment program" (QRTP) is a residential program that is
			 accredited and provides an approved trauma-informed approach including
			 treatment consideration for the youth's safety and developmental needs, with a
			 family driven approach with both the youth and the family included in all
			 aspects of care.
(258) "Quality
			 improvement review" as used in rule
			 5101:2-33-02 of the
			 Administrative Code means an examination of a PCSA's performance level on
			 specific outcomes and processes that are to be accomplished through the PCSA's
			 child protection system and is conducted by ODJFS in participation with the
			 PCSA.
(259) "Reasonable
			 medical judgment" is a medical judgment that would be made by a reasonably
			 prudent physician, knowledgeable about the case and the treatment possibilities
			 with respect to the medical conditions involved.
(260) "Receiving
			 state" is a state into which a child is placed by a sending agency.
(261) "Recommending
			 agency" means a PCSA, PCPA or PNA recommending ODJFS take any of the following
			 actions under section
			 5103.03 of the Revised Code
			 regarding a foster home:
(a) Issues a
			 certificate;
(b) Denies a
			 certificate;
(c) Renews a
			 certificate;
(d) Denies renewal of
			 a certificate; or,
(e) Revokes a
			 certificate.
(262) "Recruitment"
			 is the action and effort by a PCSA, PCPA, or PNA to provide information
			 alerting the community of the need for foster homes and adoptive homes for
			 children. Recruitment activities by a PCSA, PCPA or PNA must be directed at the
			 general public as well as conducted on an individual basis for specific
			 children.
(263)
			 "Referent/reporter" means a person making a referral of child abuse, neglect,
			 dependency, or family in need of services.
(264) "Referral"
			 means an allegation of child abuse, neglect, or dependency; or information
			 regarding a family in need of services made orally or in writing. It includes,
			 but is not limited to, allegations involving individuals, families, and
			 out-of-home care settings.
(265) "Rehabilitative
			 services" means those services provided to a child to assist the child to
			 reacquire and maintain those life skills that may have been lost due to abuse,
			 neglect, dependency or delinquency that enable the child to cope more
			 effectively with the child's personal needs and with the child's environment
			 and in raising the level of the child's physical, mental, social, and
			 vocational efficiency. Rehabilitative services may include, but are not limited
			 to, case management, social skills training, activities of daily living,
			 vocational training, medical services, counseling, psychosocial interventions,
			 social psychotherapy, crisis services, treatment planning, and independent
			 living skills training provided for a child in foster care or the child's
			 family. Rehabilitative services also include any diagnostic assessment
			 conducted to determine the services the child or the child's family
			 need.
(266) "Relative"
			 means the following:
(a) Individuals related
			 by blood or adoption:
(i) Parents,
			 grandparents, including grandparents with the prefix "great," "great-great,"
			 "grand," or "great-grand";
(ii)
			 Siblings;
(iii) Aunts, uncles,
			 nephews, and nieces, including such relative with the prefix "great,"
			 "great-great," or "great-grand";
(iv) First cousins and first cousins once
			 removed.
(b) Stepparents
			 and stepsiblings;
(c) Spouses and
			 former spouses of individuals named in paragraph (B)(266)(a) of this
			 rule.
(267) "Religious
			 coercion" may include, but is not limited to:
(a) Being required to accompany the foster
			 caregiver or other residents of the foster home to religious services, but
			 allowed to sit outside the area where the service actually occurs.
(b) Being given extra chores to perform or
			 being required to read or listen to specific material while others attend
			 religious services.
(c) Being
			 required to view or listen to specific religiously oriented television, video
			 tapes, or music.
(268) "Repeat
			 offender" means a person who has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to any of
			 the offenses listed in rules contained in Chapters 5101:2-5, 5101:2-7 and
			 5101:2-48 of the Administrative Code two or more times in separate criminal
			 actions. Guilty pleas or convictions resulting from or connected with the same
			 act, or from offenses committed at the same time, shall be counted as one
			 conviction or guilty plea.
(269) "Report" means
			 a referral accepted by the PCSA as a result of the screening decision for PCSA
			 assessment/investigation, services, and/or intervention.
(270) "Report
			 disposition" means one of the following determinations of whether a report of
			 abuse or neglect has occurred or is occurring specific to an alleged child
			 victim:
(a) Family moved - unable to complete
			 assessment/investigation.
(b)
			 Family moved out-of-county - refer to appropriate PCSA.
(c) Indicated.
(d) Substantiated.
(e) Unable to locate.
(f) Unsubstantiated.
(271) "Report
			 members" means all of the following individuals: principals of the report;
			 sibling(s) of the alleged child victim(s), including half or step siblings,
			 residing in the home; paramour of alleged child victim's parent/caretaker;
			 children of the paramour residing in the home; and related or non-related
			 adult(s) residing in the home that have routine responsibility for child care
			 of the alleged child victim(s) and his/her sibling(s).
(272) "Required
			 non-lead PCSA interviews" means a type of family in need of services intake in
			 which interviews of principals and collateral sources are conducted as
			 requested by a PCSA or CSA on behalf of the lead PCSA as required by rules
			 5101:2-36-03,
			 5101:2-36-04, and
			 5101:2-36-09 of the
			 Administrative Code.
(273)
									"Residential infant care center" (RICC) means a
			 facility that has as its primary purpose the provision of residential services
			 for infants affected by substance use and the preservation of families through
			 infant diversion practices and programs.
(274) "Risk
			 assessment" means a systematic decision making process to determine the safety
			 and protection of the child, used throughout the life of a case.
(275) "Residential
			 camp" means a public or private facility that engages in or accepts the care,
			 physical custody, or control of children during summer months and that is
			 licensed, regulated, approved, operated under the direction of, or otherwise
			 certified by the department of health or the American camping
			 association.
(276) "Residential
			 care facility" means an institution, residence, or facility licensed by the
			 department of mental health and addiction services under section
			 5119.34 of the Revised Code and
			 that provides care for a child.
(277) "Residential
			 facility" means a group home, children's crisis care facility (as defined in
			 rule 5101:2-9-36 of the
			 Administrative Code), children's residential center, private, nonprofit
			 therapeutic wilderness camp, or residential parenting facility where
			 twenty-four hour child care is provided by child care staff employed or
			 contracted by an agency. A foster home is not a residential facility.
			 "Residential facility", as used in Chapter 5101:2-36 of the Administrative
			 Code, is a home or facility that is licensed by the department of developmental
			 disabilities under section
			 5123.19 of the Revised Code and
			 in which a child with a developmental disability resides.
(278) "Residential
			 parenting facility" means a facility in which teenage mothers and their
			 children reside for the purpose of keeping mother and child together, teaching
			 parenting and life skills to the mother, and assisting teenage mothers in
			 obtaining educational or vocational training and skills.
(279) "Residual
			 parental rights, privileges, and responsibilities" are those rights,
			 privileges, and responsibilities remaining with the natural parent after the
			 transfer of legal custody of the child, including, but not necessarily limited
			 to, the privilege of reasonable visitation, consent to adoption, the privilege
			 to determine the child's religious affiliation, and the responsibility for
			 support.
(280) "Resource
			 caregiver" means a foster caregiver or a kinship caregiver.
(281) "Resource
			 family" means a foster home or the kinship caregiver family.
(282) "Respite care,"
			 as used in Chapters 5101:2-5 and 5101:2-7 of the Administrative Code, is any
			 alternative care provided for a child placed in a specialized foster home that
			 lasts more than twenty-four consecutive hours when the plan is to return the
			 child to the same specialized foster home at the end of the period of respite
			 care.
(283) "Respite care
			 services" are services designed to provide temporary relief of child-caring
			 functions including, but not limited to, crisis nurseries, day treatment, and
			 volunteers or paid individuals who provide such services within the home. This
			 service may be provided to a child placed in a foster home or with a relative
			 as well as for a child in his own home.
(284) "Respite home"
			 is a home managed by a respite family receiving funds from and approved to
			 provide respite care services by the department of developmental
			 disabilities.
(285) "Safe child"
			 means the safety response when there are no immediate threats of serious harm
			 present or the protective capacities of the family can manage any identified
			 threats to a child.
(286) "Safety plan"
			 means a specific and concrete strategy for controlling threats of serious harm
			 to a child(ren) or supplementing protective capacities, which is implemented
			 immediately when a family's protective capacities are not sufficient to manage
			 immediate and serious threats of harm.
(287) "Safety
			 response" means the determination of whether a child is safe or whether a PCSA
			 shall implement a safety plan to control any identified safety threat. The
			 types of safety responses are safe, in-home safety plan, out-of-home safety
			 plan, or legally authorized out-of-home placement.
(288) "Safety threat"
			 means an act or condition that has the capacity to seriously harm any
			 child.
(289) "Screening"
			 means the process of receiving and recording information from a referent to
			 determine one or both of the following:
(a)
			 Whether the information provided should be categorized as a referral of child
			 abuse and/or neglect, dependency, or family in need of services; or as an
			 information and/or referral intake.
(b) Whether the information categorized as a
			 referral of child abuse and/or neglect, dependency, or family in need of
			 services should be screened in or screened out.
(290) "Screening
			 decision" means the outcome of the screening process.
(291) "Screened in"
			 means the PCSA has accepted referral information as a report and assignment for
			 assessment/investigation.
(292) "Screened out"
			 means the PCSA has not accepted the referral for
			 assessment/investigation.
(293)
			 "Self-esteem/self confidence development" means individual and group counseling
			 skills, workshops and conferences for improved self-esteem and self confidence,
			 and interpersonal, and social skills training and development.
(294) "Sending
			 agency" is a PCSA, PCPA, or any agency, officer or employee of the state or
			 local government, or any court or person, voluntary agency, or other entity
			 which sends or brings a child, or causes a child to be sent or brought, into
			 another state.
(295) "Serious harm"
			 means the actual or threatened consequence of an active safety threat that may
			 be significantly affected by a child's degree of vulnerability and includes one
			 or more of the following:
(a) Is
			 life-threatening.
(b) Substantively
			 retards the child's mental health or development.
(c) Produces substantial physical suffering,
			 disfigurement or disability, whether temporary or permanent.
(296) "Sibling" means
			 a legal relationship exists between two or more children who share at least one
			 parent by birth, marriage, or adoption.
(297) "Specialized
			 assessment/investigation means an assessment/investigation conducted by the
			 PCSA in response to a child abuse or neglect report and includes an alleged
			 perpetrator who meets one or more of the following:
(a) Is responsible for the alleged child
			 victim's care in an out-of-home care setting as defined in this rule.
(b) Is a person responsible for the alleged
			 child victim's care in out-of-home care as defined in section
			 2151.011 of the Revised
			 Code.
(c) Has access to the alleged
			 child victim by virtue of his/her employment by or affiliation with an
			 institution.
(298) "Shelter" means
			 the temporary care of children in physically unrestricted facilities pending
			 court adjudication or disposition.
(299) "Skilled level
			 of care" as used in the definition of a "medically fragile foster home" has the
			 same meaning as described in rules
			 5160-3-05 and
			 5160-3-08 of the Administrative
			 Code.
(300) "Special needs
			 child" for the purposes of the state adoption subsidy program is a child who,
			 prior to substitute care or adoptive placement, has at least one of the
			 following needs or circumstances that may be a barrier to placement or adoption
			 or a barrier to a child being sustained in a substitute care placement or
			 adoptive home without financial assistance because the child:
(a) Is in a sibling group which should be
			 placed together;
(b) Is a member of
			 a minority or ethnic group;
(c) Is
			 six years of age or older;
(d) Has
			 remained in the permanent custody of a PCSA or PCPA for more than one
			 year;
(e) Has a medical condition,
			 physical impairment, intellectual disability or developmental
			 disability;
(f) Has an emotional
			 disturbance or behavioral problem;
(g) Has a social or medical history or the
			 background of the child's biological family has a social or medical history
			 which may place the child at risk of acquiring a medical condition, a physical,
			 mental or developmental disability or an emotional disorder;
(h) Has been in the home of his/her
			 prospective adoptive parents as a foster child for at least one year and would
			 experience severe separation and loss if placed in another setting due to
			 his/her significant emotional ties with these foster parents as determined and
			 documented by a qualified mental health professional;
(i) Has experienced previous adoption
			 disruption or multiple placements.
(301) "Special
			 service state adoption subsidy" is financial assistance directly related to the
			 child's special needs at the time of the subsidy agreement, including any
			 identified or anticipated risk of a special need. Payments may be made to the
			 adoptive parent or to the service provider. Special service subsidies include,
			 but are not limited to, payments for:
(a)
			 Medical and surgical costs as determined by a licensed physician. If the child
			 has a medical problem needing treatment, investigation shall be made of the
			 adoptive family's medical insurance, medicaid and other resources to determine
			 whether the costs of treatment could be covered by these resources. If not, the
			 subsidy could provide the necessary funds.
(b) Psychiatric, psychological, or counseling
			 costs as determined by a licensed psychiatrist, licensed psychologist, licensed
			 professional counselor, licensed independent social worker or a licensed
			 independent marriage and family therapist. This may also include counseling
			 sessions for the child or adoptive family to help integrate the child into the
			 adoptive family. If the child has a psychiatric or psychological condition
			 needing treatment, investigation shall be made of the adoptive parent's medical
			 insurance, medicaid and other resources to determine whether the costs of
			 treatment could be covered by these resources. If not, the subsidy could
			 provide the necessary funds.
(c)
			 Other special service costs as documented by the appropriate professional or
			 determined as necessary by the PCSA. This may include, but not be limited to,
			 remedial education, rehabilitation training, corrective dental treatment,
			 speech and hearing therapy, wheelchair, braces, crutches, prostheses, child
			 care, transportation and any other expenses related to the care and treatment
			 of the child when not available from other funding sources. These could also
			 include other costs incidental to the care of the child.
(302) "Specialized
			 foster home" means a medically fragile foster home or a treatment foster
			 home.
(303) "Spousal abuse"
			 is violence between two caretakers regardless of marital status, and reflects
			 the presence of domestic violence.
(304) "Staff secure
			 facility" means a residential setting for adjudicated offenders that provides
			 treatment in a safe environment with an atmosphere of mutual respect between
			 staff and residents without traditional obstacles to prevent escape.
			 Traditional barriers include locked doors, barbed wire, electric gates. In a
			 staff secure facility staff become the deterrent to escape by having an ODJFS
			 approved plan for positioning themselves in such a way that residents are
			 prevented from escaping.
(305) "State adoption
			 maintenance subsidy" is a state-funded adoption program intended to make
			 permanent homes possible for children with special needs. Through the
			 subsidized adoption program, special service and maintenance subsidy payments
			 are made available to assist an adoptive parent who is otherwise qualified to
			 adopt except for financial need.
(306) "State fiscal
			 year" means the period of time between July first of one year and June
			 thirtieth of the following year.
(307) "State
			 institution" is a facility established by, or operated pursuant to the
			 authority of, the general assembly, for the care of delinquent children, blind
			 children, deaf children, children with a mental illness, children with an
			 intellectual disability, or children with a developmental disability, and that
			 is under the management, control, or supervision of the division of
			 correctional services of the department of youth services, the state board of
			 education, the state department of mental health and addiction services, the
			 state department of developmental disabilities, or a political
			 subdivision.
(308) "Stranger
			 danger report" is a report to the PCSA alleging a criminal act against a child
			 of assault or sexual activity as defined under Chapter 2907. of the Revised
			 Code if the alleged perpetrator:
(a) Is not a
			 member of the alleged child victim's family.
(b) Has no sanctioned or continued access to
			 the alleged child victim.
(c) Has
			 no relationship with the alleged child victim.
(d) Is not involved in daily or regular
			 out-of-home care for the alleged child victim.
(e) Is a stranger, previously unknown to the
			 alleged child victim and the alleged child victim's family.
(309) "Subcontractor"
			 means any person who by a legal agreement with an agency provides services for
			 an agency.
(310) "Substance
			 affected infant" means a child under the age of twelve months who has any
			 detectable physical, developmental, cognitive, or emotional delay or harm which
			 is associated with a parent, guardian, or custodian's abuse of a legal or
			 illegal substance; excluding the use of a substance by the parent, guardian, or
			 custodian as prescribed.
(311) "Substance
			 exposed infant" means a child under the age of twelve months who has been
			 subjected to legal or illegal substance abuse while in utero.
(312) "Substance Use
			 Disorder (SUD) Residential Facility" means a family-based residential treatment
			 facility for adults with substance abuse licensed by Ohio mental health and
			 addiction services that allows the placement of child(ren) with a parent. A SUD
			 residential facility shall meet the following programmatic criteria:
(a) The recommendation for the placement is
			 specified in the child's case plan before the placement.
(b) The SUD residential facility provides, as
			 part of the treatment for substance abuse, services regarding parenting skills
			 training, parent education, individual counseling, and family
			 counseling.
(c) The services are
			 provided under an organizational structure and treatment framework with
			 recognized principles of a trauma-informed approach and trauma-specific
			 interventions to address the consequences of trauma and facilitate
			 healing.
(313) "Substantiated
			 report" means the report disposition in which there is an admission of child
			 abuse or neglect by the person(s) responsible; an adjudication of child abuse
			 or neglect; or other forms of confirmation deemed valid by the PCSA.
(314) "Substitute
			 care" is the care provided for a child apart from his parent or guardian, while
			 the child's custody is held by a PCSA or PCPA.
(315) "Substitute
			 caregiver" means an individual providing care for a child who is in the custody
			 of the PCSA or PCPA including, a relative other than the child's parents, a
			 nonrelative having a familiar and longstanding relationship with the child or
			 the family, a foster parent or pre-adoptive parent, and a staff person of a
			 group home or residential facility who is providing care for the
			 child.
(316) "Supervising
			 agency" is the agency providing pre-finalization services to an adoptive family
			 or adoptive child during the period prior to an adoption
			 finalization.
(317) "Supervisor" as the term is used in rules
			 contained in Chapter 5101:2-33 of the Administrative Code means a person who is
			 employed by the PCSA to oversee, direct or manage one or more workers employed
			 by the agency in a social services capacity.
(318) "Supplemental
			 plan" means a written plan for a child outlining the agency's plan to locate a
			 permanent placement for the child and which may be developed concurrently with
			 the case plan.
(319) "Support
			 system" means the involvement of relatives, mentors, and caregivers in the
			 development of independent living skills; and training children or families in
			 decision making, planning, and time management.
(320) "Supportive
			 services" are services provided or arranged to protect, strengthen, or assist
			 children and families or caretakers. Supportive services may include family
			 preservation services, family support services, family reunification services,
			 or adoption promotional and support services.
(321) "Temporary
			 certificate" means a certificate issued as a sanction by ODJFS to a PCSA, PCPA,
			 PNA pursuant to section
			 5103.03 of the Revised Code for
			 a period of less than one year.
(322) "Temporary
			 custody" means legal custody of a child who is removed from the child's home,
			 which may be terminated at any time at the discretion of the court or, if the
			 legal custody is granted in an agreement for temporary custody, by the person
			 who executed the agreement.
(323) "Temporary
			 emergency care" is physical care and meeting the emotional needs of a child in
			 a facility established to receive children at any time of day, twenty-four
			 hours per day.
(324) "Therapeutic
			 counseling" means, pursuant to section
			 2151.011 of the Revised Code,
			 psychiatric or psychological services provided to correct or alleviate any
			 mental or emotional illness or disorder and performed by a licensed
			 psychiatrist, licensed psychologist, or persons licensed under Chapter 4757. of
			 the Revised Code.
(325) "Therapeutic
			 services" are medical, psychiatric or psychological services performed by
			 licensed or certified physicians, psychiatrists, psychologists, and persons
			 licensed under Chapter 4757. of the Revised Code for the purpose of correcting
			 or alleviating physical, mental, or emotional illnesses, or
			 disorders.
(326) "Third party"
			 means the requirement that a PCSA request the assistance of law enforcement or
			 another PCSA or both when conducting an assessment/investigation due to the
			 potential conflict of interest a PCSA may have assessing/investigating an
			 entity.
(327) "Title IV-E
			 Adoption assistance" is a federally funded program in which a public children
			 services agency (PCSA) may provide financial assistance and medical coverage to
			 special needs children who meet the eligibility requirements of
			 42 U.S.C
			 673 (amended 2/8/06 as if enacted 10/1/05)
			 and have been placed for adoption or are living with parents who have legally
			 adopted them.
(328) "Title IV-E
			 agency" means a public children services agency or a public entity with whom
			 the Ohio department of job and family services has a Title IV-E subgrant
			 agreement in effect.
(329) "Toddler" means
			 any child from eighteen months of age to thirty-six months of age.
(330) "Training"
			 means the training and staff development activities which directly or
			 indirectly benefit or assist agency staff in the delivery of
			 services.
(331) "Training
			 episode" means a class, session or workshop for foster caregivers of two
			 consecutive hours duration or more, as contained in an agency's approved foster
			 caregiver pre-placement and continuing training proposal.
(332) "Transfer"
			 means an agreement between two recommending agencies and a foster or adoptive
			 parent for transferring the responsibility for future utilization, supervision
			 and recertification or updates of a homestudy from one agency to
			 another.
(333)
			 "Transportation" means arranging for or providing transportation to and from
			 needed services, resources and facilities.
(334) "Treatment
			 foster care" means foster caregiver-based treatment services for children whose
			 special or exceptional needs cannot be met in their own homes. Treatment foster
			 care focuses on providing rehabilitative services to children with special or
			 exceptional needs and their families with the primary location of treatment
			 being in the treatment foster home.
(335) "Treatment
			 foster caregiver" means a person who has been specifically trained and
			 certified pursuant to rules
			 5101:2-5-20 to
			 5101:2-5-35 and
			 5101:2-7-02 to
			 5101:2-7-16 of the
			 Administrative Code to provide treatment to children with special or
			 exceptional needs placed in the treatment foster home.
(336) "Treatment
			 foster home" means a foster home that incorporates special rehabilitative
			 services designed to treat the specific needs of the children received in the
			 foster home and that receives and cares for children who are emotionally or
			 behaviorally disturbed, chemically dependent, with an intellectual disability,
			 or developmentally disabled, or who otherwise have exceptional needs.
(337) "Treatment
			 team" means the group of individuals who formulate, assess, monitor and revise,
			 as needed, the child's service plan. The treatment team shall include, but is
			 not limited to:
(a) A treatment team
			 leader;
(b) Case managers or
			 therapists from agencies providing social, medical or mental health services to
			 the child and his family;
(c) The
			 treatment or medically fragile foster caregiver(s);
(d) A representative(s) of the agency holding
			 custody of the child, including, for any child who has attained the age of
			 fourteen, a representative of the custody-holding agency's independent living
			 program;
(e) A representative of
			 the educational system providing educational services to the child;
(f) The child, according to his age and
			 functioning level;
(g) Parent(s) of
			 the child, when reunification with the parent(s) is the plan for the child, or
			 the child's guardian; and
(h) The
			 child's guardian ad litem or court appointed special advocate, if one has been
			 appointed to represent the child.
(338) "Treatment team
			 leader" means the member(s) of the treatment team with primary responsibility
			 for day-to-day leadership of the treatment team and for preparation of the
			 written service plan and any revisions thereto. The treatment team leader shall
			 be a professional treatment staff member, as defined in paragraph (B) (334) of
			 this rule, of the treatment or medically fragile foster care program or the
			 child's treatment or medically fragile foster caregiver if the foster caregiver
			 is appropriately licensed/certified to perform the functions of a treatment
			 team leader. Nothing in this definition shall prohibit a treatment team from
			 being co-led by more than one individual.
(339) "Type A home"
			 means a permanent residence of the administrator in which child care or
			 publicly funded child care is provided for seven to twelve children at one time
			 or a permanent residence of the administrator in which child care is provided
			 for four to twelve children at one time if four or more children at one time
			 are under two years of age. In counting children for the purposes of this
			 paragraph, any children under six years of age who are related to a licensee,
			 administrator, or employee and who are on the premises of the type A home shall
			 be counted. "Type A home" does not include a residence in which the needs of
			 children are administered to, if all of the children whose needs are being
			 administered to are siblings of the same immediate family and the residence is
			 the home of the siblings. "Type A home" does not include a child day
			 camp.
(340) "Type B home,"
			 means a permanent residence of the provider in which child care services are
			 provided for one to six children at one time and in which no more than three
			 children may be under two years of age at one time.
(a) In counting children for the purposes of
			 this rule, any children under six years of age who are related to the provider
			 and who are on the premises of the type B home shall be counted. Children six
			 years of age or older who are related to the provider and who are on the
			 premises of the "type B home" shall not be included in this count.
(b) A "type B home" also includes a home
			 which is the permanent residence of both the provider and the parent.
(341) "Unable to
			 locate" means the report disposition in which the assessment/investigation was
			 not completed due to the inability to make contact with the family.
(342) "Unaccompanied
			 refugee minor" is a person who has not yet reached eighteen years of age, or
			 such higher age as the ODJFS has provided for in its child welfare plan under
			 Title IV-B of the social security act, and who entered the United States
			 unaccompanied by and not destined to:
(a) A
			 parent; or
(b) A close non parental
			 adult relative who is willing and able to care for the minor; or
(c) An adult with a court claim to custody of
			 the minor; and
(d) Who has no
			 parent(s) in the United States.
(343) "Universal
			 precautions" means an approach to infection control in which all human blood
			 and certain human body fluids are treated as if known to be infectious for
			 human immunodeficiency virus, hepatitis b virus and other blood borne
			 pathogens.
(344)
			 "Unsubstantiated report" means the report disposition in which the
			 assessment/investigation determined no occurrence of child abuse or
			 neglect.
(345) "Variance"
			 means a discretionary action of ODJFS to permanently suspend all or part of a
			 rule imposed on an agency by the application of Chapter 5101:2-5 or 5101:2-9 of
			 the Administrative Code, or on a foster caregiver by the application of Chapter
			 5101:2-7 of the Administrative Code.
(346) "Volunteer"
			 means any individual not being paid but providing services for an
			 agency.
(347) "Volunteer
			 services" are those services (e.g., transportation) performed by a person of
			 his own free will and without monetary gain or compensation.
(348) "Waiting child"
			 is a child in the permanent custody of a PCSA with the goal of adoption that is
			 not currently in a pre-finalized adoptive placement or involved in an
			 appeal.
(349) "Waiver" means
			 a discretionary action of ODJFS to temporarily suspend, pursuant to rule
			 5101:2-5-18 of the
			 Administrative Code, all or part of a rule imposed on an agency by the
			 application of Chapter
			 5101:2-5 or
			 5101:2-9 of the Administrative
			 Code, or on a foster caregiver by the application of Chapter
			 5101:2-7 of the Administrative
			 Code in order to give the agency or foster caregiver time to come into
			 compliance.
(350) "Withholding of
			 medically indicated treatment" is the failure to respond to the disabled
			 infant's life-threatening conditions by providing treatment (including
			 appropriate nutrition, hydration, and medication) which, in the attending
			 physician's reasonable medical judgment, will most likely be effective in
			 ameliorating or correcting all such conditions. Withholding medically indicated
			 treatment may constitute neglect of a child. This term does not include the
			 failure to provide treatment (other than appropriate nutrition, hydration, or
			 medication) to a disabled infant when, in the attending physician's reasonable
			 medical judgment, any of the following circumstances apply:
(a) The disabled infant is chronically and
			 irreversibly comatose.
(b) The
			 provisions of such treatment would merely prolong dying, or not be effective in
			 ameliorating or correcting all of the disabled infant's life-threatening
			 conditions, or otherwise be futile in terms of survival of the disabled
			 infant.
(c) The provisions of such
			 treatment would be virtually futile in terms of the survival of the disabled
			 infant and the treatment itself under such circumstances would be
			 inhumane.
(351) "Witness" means
			 a person who has direct knowledge of the alleged abuse and/or neglect of a
			 child.
(352) "Working day"
			 means the regular days on which work is performed by the PCSA generally seen as
			 Monday through Friday excluding legal holidays, or the day the holiday is
			 observed.