Pennsylvania Code › Title 55 - HUMAN SERVICES › Part V - Children, Youth and Families Manual › Subpart C - Administration and Fiscal Management › Article II - County-Administered Services › Chapter 3130 - ADMINISTRATION OF COUNTY CHILDREN AND YOUTH SOCIAL SERVICE PROGRAMS › INTRODUCTION › Section 3130.5 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 28, July 13, 2024
The following words and terms, when used in this
						  chapter, have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates
						  otherwise:
Accept for service
-Decide on the basis
						  of the needs and problems of an individual to admit or receive the individual
						  as a client of the agency or as required by a court order transferring custody
						  of a child to the county agency under
						  42 Pa.C.S. §§
													6301-6365 (relating to the Juvenile
						  Act).
Arrange
-Make a service available to a
						  client accepted for service through another agency or service provider which is
						  not paid for by the county children and youth social service agency.
Child
-An individual whose custody has
						  been transferred to the county agency under
						  42 Pa.C.S. §§
													6301-6365, or whom the agency has otherwise
						  accepted for service and who:
(i) Is
						under the age of 18 years.
(ii) Is
						under the age of 21 years who committed an act of delinquency before reaching
						the age of 18 years.
(iii) Is under
						the age of 21 years who was adjudicated dependent before reaching the age of 18
						years and while engaged in a course of instruction or treatment requests the
						court to retain jurisdiction until the course has been completed.
Child care facility
-The physical
						  location or site, including buildings, grounds, supplies and equipment, as well
						  as staff, involved in providing part-day or full-day-24 hour-social services
						  for children. The term does not include a foster family residence as defined in
						  Chapter 3700 (relating to foster family care agency).
Children and youth social
						  services
-Public child welfare services referred to in the Public
						  Welfare Code (62 P. S. §
													701),
						  including those activities or services designed to:
(i) Prevent neglect, abuse and exploitation
						and help overcome problems that result in dependency and delinquency.
(ii) Provide services to families in their
						own homes which protect children from continued harm.
(iii) Provide temporary, substitute care in
						foster family homes or residential child care facilities for a child in need of
						the care.
(iv) Reunite children and
						their families if children are placed in temporary substitute care.
(v) Provide a permanent, legally assured
						family for a child in temporary, substitute care who cannot be returned to his
						home.
(vi) Provide court-ordered
						care or supervision to alleged or adjudicated dependent or delinquent
						children.
County
-County institution district or
						  its successor.
Date of placement
-The date of the
						  child's most recent physical removal from the home and placement under the care
						  and responsibility of the county agency. A planned temporary visit home or the
						  child's running away from placement to home does not change the child's date of
						  placement.
Department
-The Department of Public
						  Welfare of the Commonwealth.
Facility designed or operated for the benefit
						  of delinquent children
-A facility which is one of the
						  following:
(i) Identifies itself by
						charter, articles of incorporation or program description as solely for
						delinquent children.
(ii) A secure
						facility.
Parent
-Biological parent, adoptive
						  parent or legal guardian.
Placement
-Twenty-four hours
						  out-of-home care and supervision of a child.
Provide
-Perform an activity directly
						  through county agency staff or ensure the performance of an activity through a
						  purchase of service agreement with another agency or
						  individual.
The provisions of this §
														3130.5 amended under Articles II,
							 VII, IX and X of the Public Welfare Code (62 P. S. §§
															201-211,
							 701-774,
							 901-922 and
							 1001-1080).