Rhode Island Code of Regulations › Title 214 - DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN, YOUTH AND FAMILIES › Chapter 30 - CASE MANAGEMENT › Subchapter 00 - N/A › Part 1 - Case Management › Section 214-RICR-30-00-1.5 - Definitions

Current through June 14, 2024
A. "Another planned permanent living
				 arrangement" or "APPLA" means a living arrangement for a youth age sixteen (16)
				 or older whom the Department maintains care and custody of the youth and in
				 which the youth is expected to remain until adulthood. APPLA is a permanency
				 option only when other options such as reunification, relative placement,
				 adoption, or legal guardianship have been ruled out. APPLA placements must
				 follow the reasonable and prudent parent standard, ensuring the youth has
				 regular, ongoing opportunities to engage in age or developmentally-appropriate
				 activities.
B. "Caregiver" means a
				 parent or legal guardian or other person responsible for the child's
				 welfare.
C. "Case activity note" or
				 "CAN" means a window in RICHIST where case-related notes and comments can be
				 entered into the electronic case record.
D. "Child protective services clearance"
				 means a check of the Department's Child Protective Services (CPS) records for
				 many individuals, including minors and adults, who provide care to children and
				 youth. The Department's Child Protective Services clearance is also known as a
				 Clearance of Agency Activity.
E.
				 "Child welfare services" means preventing the unnecessary separation of
				 children from their families by identifying family problems, assisting families
				 in resolving their problems, and preventing breakup of the family where the
				 prevention of child removal is desirable and possible, Pub. Laws No. 96-272
				 § 45.
G. "CPI" means the
				 Department's Field Child Protective Investigator.
H. "CPS" means the Department's Child
				 Protective Services division.
I.
				 "CPS hotline" means the Department's Child Protective Services (CPS) Hotline
				 that provides a statewide, toll-free phone number to receive child abuse and
				 neglect (CA/N) reports 24 hours per day, seven days per week.
J. "Department" means Rhode Island's
				 Department of Children, Youth and Families.
K. "Family" means two or more persons who
				 interact and provide one another with physical, emotional, social and/or
				 economic care. This may include a person(s) not legally related to the
				 individual. Members of a family may include, but is not limited to, children,
				 parents, spouses, domestic partners, different-sex and same-sex spouses and/or
				 domestic partners, and siblings (including sister, brother, stepbrother,
				 stepsister, half-brother, half-sister).
1.
				 "Sibling" means one of two or more individuals having a common parent through a
				 biological, adoptive or other current or former legal relationship. This
				 includes an individual who is considered by state or tribal law to be a sibling
				 of a child or youth or an individual who would have been considered a sibling
				 of a child or youth but for the termination of or other disruption of parental
				 rights, including the death of a parent.