Washington Administrative Code › Title 388 - Social and Health Services, Department of › FOSTER CARE/ADOPTION/RECONCILIATION › Chapter 388-25 - Child welfare services-Foster care › Part A - GENERAL › Section 388-25-0010 - What definitions apply to the foster care program?

Current through Register Vol. 24-14, July 15, 2024
The following definitions are important:
"Alcohol affected infant"
means a child age
					 birth through twelve months who was exposed to alcohol in utero and may
					 demonstrate physical, behavioral, or cognitive signs that may be attributed to
					 alcohol exposure.
"Behavior rehabilitation services"
(BRS) is a
					 comprehensive program of positive behavioral support and environmental
					 structure in a supervised group or family living setting. Resources are
					 designed to modify a child's behavior or to appropriately care for a child's
					 intensive medical condition. Services are tailored to each client's needs and
					 offered in the least restrictive setting possible.
"Child placing agency"
means a private
					 licensed or certified agency that places a child or children for temporary
					 care, continued care, or for adoption.
"Children's administration"
(CA) means the
					 cluster of programs within the department of social and health services
					 responsible for the provision of child welfare, child protective, child care
					 licensing, and other services to children and their families.
"Crisis residential center"
(CRC) means a
					 secure or semi-secure facility established under
					 chapter
					 74.13 RCW.
"Department"
means the department of social
					 and health services (DSHS).
"Dependency guardian"
means the person,
					 nonprofit corporation, or Indian tribe appointed by the court pursuant to
					 RCW
					  13.34.232 for the limited purpose of
					 assisting the court in the supervision of the dependency.
"Division of children and family services"
(DCFS) is the division of children's administration that provides child
					 welfare, child protective, family reconciliation, and support services to
					 children in need of protection and their families.
"Division of licensed resources"
(DLR) is the
					 division of children's administration responsible for licensing or certifying
					 child care homes and facilities under the authority of
					 chapter
					 74.15 RCW.
"Drug affected infant"
means a child age birth
					 through twelve months who was exposed to drugs or substances in utero and
					 demonstrates physical, behavioral, or cognitive signs that can be attributed to
					 exposure to drugs or substances.
"Early and periodic screening, diagnosis and
					 treatment"
(EPSDT), also known as "healthy kids," is a federal program
					 for preventive health care for children and teens served by medicaid. The
					 physical/well child examination helps find health problems early and enables
					 the child to receive treatment for concerns identified in the
					 examination.
"Foster care"
means twenty-four-hour per day
					 temporary substitute care for the child placed away from the child's parents or
					 guardians and for whom the department or a licensed or certified child placing
					 agency has placement and care responsibility. This includes but is not limited
					 to placements in foster family homes, foster homes of relatives, licensed group
					 homes, emergency shelters, staffed residential facilities, and preadoptive
					 homes, regardless of whether the department licenses the home or facility
					 and/or makes payments for care of the child.
"Foster care services"
for the department
					 include:
(1) The determination of
				  needs of the child;
(2) The
				  determination of need for foster care;
(3) The placement of the child in the type of
				  foster care setting that best meets the child's needs;
(4) The referral of a child to a private
				  child placement agency or institution to meet the child's specific
				  needs;
(5) Medical services
				  according to the rules of the department's medical program;
(6) Reimbursement for the care of a child in
				  a licensed family foster home;
(7)
				  The purchase of care from a licensed private child placing agency, behavioral
				  rehabilitation services provider, or maternity home;
(8) Supervision of the foster care placement
				  by direct supervision through departmental social work services; or indirect
				  supervision through evaluation of periodic reports from private child placing
				  agencies, rehabilitation services providers, or maternity homes with which the
				  department has contractual arrangements.
"Foster home or foster family home"
means
					 person(s) regularly providing care on a twenty-four-hour basis to one or more
					 children in the person's home.
"Group care"
means a twenty-four-hour facility
					 licensed or certified under chapter 388-148 WAC for more than six children. The
					 facility provides the basic needs for food, shelter, and supervision. The
					 facility also provides therapeutic services required for the successful
					 reunification of children with the children's family resource or the
					 achievement of an alternate permanent living arrangement.
"Independent living services"
means the
					 program services and activities established and implemented by the department
					 to assist youth sixteen years or older in preparing to live on their own after
					 leaving foster care.
"Overpayment"
means any money paid by the
					 department for services or goods not rendered, delivered, or authorized or
					 where the department paid too much for services or goods or services rendered,
					 delivered, or authorized.
"Regional support network"
is an
					 administrative body which oversees the funding for provision of public mental
					 health services.
"Relative"
means a person who is related as
					 defined in
					 RCW
					  74.15.020(2)(a).
"Responsible parent"
means a birth parent,
					 adoptive parent, or stepparent of a dependent child or a person who has signed
					 an affidavit acknowledging paternity that has been filed with the state office
					 of vital statistics.
"Responsible living skills program"
means an
					 agency licensed by the secretary that provides residential and transitional
					 living services to persons ages sixteen to eighteen who are dependent under
					 chapter
					 13.34 RCW and who have
					 been unable to live in his or her legally authorized residence and, as a
					 result, lives outdoors or in another unsafe location not intended for use as
					 housing.
"Staffed residential home"
means a licensed
					 home providing twenty-four-hour care for six or fewer children or expectant
					 mothers. The home may employ staff to care for children or expectant
					 mothers.
"Shelter care"
means the legal status of a
					 child at entry in foster care prior to a disposition hearing before the
					 court.
"Vendor"
means an individual or corporation
					 that provides goods or services to or for clients of the department and that
					 controls operational decisions.
Statutory Authority:
						RCW
						74.13.031. 01-08-047, § 388-25-0010,
						filed 3/30/01, effective 4/30/01.