Wyoming Administrative Code › Agency 049 - Family Services, Dept. of › Sub-Agency 0029 - Providers of Substitute Care Services, Certification of › Chapter 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 1-6 - Definitions

Current through July 13, 2024
Other definitions may also be included in other chapters of
				  these rules.
(a) "Aftercare" see
				"continuing care."
(b)
				"Appropriateness" means the degree to which a particular service, placement,
				treatment, intervention, or activity is best suited to a child's needs; is not
				excessive; unduly intrusive or restrictive; is anticipated to be effective and
				to achieve the desired and specified outcomes; and is adequate or sufficient in
				quantity to address the problem.
(c) "Assessment" means an appraisal completed
				by an appropriately licensed, provisionally licensed and/or certified
				professional in which expertise and skills are exercised to collect and analyze
				data in order to understand and describe the nature of service needs of an
				individual, family, or group.
(d)
				"Certification" means that DFS formally recognizes the organization as meeting
				all of the minimum requirements of these rules that pertain to the specific
				services provided and compliance with applicable laws and
				regulations.
(e) "Child" means an
				individual under the age of 18 years.
(f) "Continuing care" means a course of
				treatment following residential care, customarily out-patient, identified in an
				Individual Treatment Plan of Care (ITPC) designed to support service frequency
				sufficient to maintain desired outcomes.
(g) "Department" means the Department of
				Family Services or its designee, also referred to throughout these rules as
				"DFS."
(h) "Direct care staff"
				means staff members whose primary job responsibility is the direct care and
				supervision of the children/residents assigned to him/her. Usually, direct care
				staff do not include administrators, therapists, or clerical staff, unless one
				of those individuals has assumed the role of direct care staff and is providing
				this service.
(i) "Employee" means
				any person, regardless of compensation or position, who works at the
				facility.
(j) "Facility" see
				definition of Program.
(k) "Family"
				means the nuclear family (parents, siblings, stepparents, adoptive parents, or
				legal guardians), extended family (aunts, uncles, grandparents).
(l) "Individual Service Plan of Care (ISPC)"
				means a document that describes measurable, individualized non-therapeutic
				service goals and strategies designed to meet the child's needs as determined
				by the family partnership or case planning meeting.
(m) "Individual Treatment Plan of Care
				(ITPC)" means a document that describes measurable, individualized therapeutic
				treatment goals and strategies designed to meet the child's needs as determined
				by the clinical assessment.
(n)
				"Informed consent" means a child's parent, legal custodian or legal guardian
				explicitly grants permission to the organization to use a specific
				intervention. Consent is premised on full disclosure of the facts to enable the
				consumer to make a decision based on knowledge of the risks, benefits and
				alternatives.
(o) "Living unit"
				means a self-contained area separated by doors/walls from the rest of the
				organization. A living unit has its own assigned staff and supervisor, whose
				offices are located on the unit. Daily records and copies of ISPC and/or ITPC
				shall be maintained on the unit.
(p) "Organization" means any type of business
				entity, including, but not limited to sole proprietorships, partnerships,
				limited partnerships, corporations, non-profit corporations, and limited
				liability companies who participate in the delivery of substitute care
				services. "Organization" is used interchangeably with "facility" and "provider"
				in these rules. This definition does not include adoptive homes, foster care
				homes or therapeutic foster care homes.
(q) "Person" shall mean any individual,
				partnership, association, or corporation.
(r) "Physical restraint" means a hands-on
				technique used by a specially trained staff member/foster parent for the
				purpose of restricting a child's freedom of movement in order to maintain a
				safe environment for the child and others. The technique is designed to
				restrict the movement or function of a child or portion of a child's body and
				provide a degree of physical control that the child is unwilling or unable to
				provide for him or herself. Physical restraint does not include:
(i) Physical escort of a child, which means
				the temporary touching or holding of the hand, wrist, arm, shoulder or back for
				the purpose of inducing a child who is acting out to walk to a safe
				location.