Wisconsin Administrative Code › Department of Health Services › DHS 1-19 - Management and Technology and Strategic Finance › Chapter DHS 12 - Caregiver Background Checks › Subchapter I - General Provisions › Section DHS 12.03 - Definitions

Current through June 24, 2024
In this chapter:
(1) "Adoption home study" means an evaluation
				  of a prospective adoptive family under ch. DCF 51 or 54.
(2) "Agency" means the department, a county
				  department or a school board or a child welfare agency licensed under s.
				  48.60,
				  Stats., as a child-placing agency.
(3) "Background information disclosure form"
				  means the department's form, F-82064, on which a person provides certain
				  information concerning the person's background.
(4) "Bar" means, as a noun, that a person is
				  not permitted to receive regulatory approval, or be employed as a caregiver by
				  or under contract with an entity, or to reside as a nonclient at an
				  entity.
(5) "Caregiver" has the
				  meaning specified in s.
				  48.685(1)
				  (ag) or
				  50.065(1)
				  (ag), Stats., whichever is
				  applicable.
(6) "Client" means a
				  person who receives direct care or treatment services from an entity. For the
				  purposes of this chapter, "client" includes an adopted child for whom an
				  adoption assistance payment is being made under s.
				  48.975,
				  Stats.
(7) "Contractor" has the
				  meaning specified in ss.
				  48.685(1)
				  (ar) and
				  50.065(1)
				  (bm), Stats.
(8) "County department" means a county
				  department of social services established under s.
				  46.215
				  or
				  46.22,
				  Stats., or a county department of human services established under s.
				  46.21(2m)
				  or
				  46.23,
				  Stats.
(9) "Department" means the
				  Wisconsin department of health services.
(10) "Direct contact" has the meaning
				  specified in ss.
				  48.685(1)
				  (ar) and
				  50.065(1)
				  (br), Stats.
(11) "Entity" has the meaning specified in s.
				  48.685(1)
				  (b) or
				  50.065(1)
				  (c), Stats., whichever is
				  applicable.
(12) "Foster home"
				  means any facility operated by a person required to be licensed under s.
				  48.62(1),
				  Stats., in which care and maintenance are provided for no more than 4 foster
				  children, or, if all are siblings, for no more than 6 children, and also
				  includes a home licensed for placement of children for adoption under s.
				  48.833,
				  Stats., for whom adoption assistance will be provided under s.
				  48.975,
				  Stats.
(13) "Hospital" means a
				  facility approved as a hospital under s.
				  50.35,
				  Stats.
(14) "Nonclient resident"
				  has the meaning specified in ss.
				  48.685(1)
				  (bm) and
				  50.065(1)
				  (cn), Stats.
(15) "Personal care services" has the meaning
				  given in s.
				  50.065(1)
				  (cr), Stats.
(16) "Regular" means, in terms of direct
				  contact with clients, contact that is scheduled, planned, expected, or
				  otherwise periodic.
(17)
				  "Regulatory approval" means:
(a) For purposes
				  of s.
				  48.685,
				  Stats., any of the following:
1. Issuance by
				  the department of a license or certification or the continuation or renewal of
				  a license or certification, or approval of a prospective adoptive parent
				  application for a home study.
2.
				  Issuance or renewal by a county department or child-placing agency of a foster
				  home license under s.
				  48.62
				  or
				  48.75,
				  Stats., including a home licensed for placement of children for adoption under
				  s.
				  48.833,
				  Stats., for whom adoption assistance will be provided under s.
				  48.975,
				  Stats., and includes approval of pre-adoptive applicants who contract for a
				  home study with a licensed private child placing agency for approval of a
				  placement of a child for adoption.
Note:
Administrative rules governing county
					 certified day care centers appear in ch. DCF 202.
3. Approval by a school board under s.
				  120.13(14),
				  Stats., of day care services established by or contracted with a day care
				  provider.