Washington Administrative Code › Title 388 - Social and Health Services, Department of › GENERAL › Chapter 388-06A - Background check requirements for children's administration › Section 388-06A-0020 - What definitions apply to WAC 388-06A-0100 through 388-06A-0260 of this chapter?

Current through Register Vol. 24-14, July 15, 2024
The following definitions apply to WAC
				  388-06A-0100 through 388-06A-0260
				  of this chapter:
"Authorized"
or
"authorization"
means not disqualified by the department to have unsupervised access to
				  children. This includes persons who are certified, contracted, allowed to
				  receive payments from department funded programs, or volunteer.
"CA"
means children's administration, department
				  of social and health services. Children's administration is the cluster of
				  programs within DSHS responsible for the provision of licensing of foster
				  homes, group facilities/programs and child-placing agencies, child protective
				  services, child welfare services, and other services to children and their
				  families.
"Certification"
means:
(1) Department approval of a person, home, or
				facility that does not legally need to be licensed, but wishes to have evidence
				that they met the minimum licensing requirements.
(2) Department licensing of a child-placing
				agency to certify and supervise foster home and group care programs.
"Children"
means a person who is one of the
				  following:
(1) Under eighteen years
				old;
(2) Up to twenty-one years of
				age and pursuing a high school or equivalency course of study (GED/HSEC), or
				vocational program;
(3) Up to
				twenty-one years of age and participating in the extended foster care
				program;
(4) Up to twenty-one years
				of age and under the custody of the Washington state juvenile rehabilitation
				administration.
"Civil adjudication proceeding"
is a judicial or
				  administrative adjudicative proceeding that results in a finding of, or upholds
				  an agency finding of, domestic violence, abuse, sexual abuse, neglect,
				  abandonment, violation of a professional licensing standard regarding a child
				  or vulnerable adult, or exploitation or financial exploitation of a child or
				  vulnerable adult under any provision of law, including but not limited to
				  chapter
				  13.34,
				  26.44 or
				  74.34 RCW, or rules adopted under
				  chapters
				  18.51 and
				  74.42 RCW. "Civil adjudication
				  proceeding" also includes judicial or administrative findings that become final
				  due to the failure of the alleged perpetrator to timely exercise a legal right
				  to administratively challenge such findings.
"Department or DSHS"
means the department of
				  social and health services (DSHS).
"DLR"
means the division of licensed resources
				  within children's administration. DLR licenses and monitors foster homes, child
				  placing agencies and licensed group care facilities.
"I"
and
"you"
refers to anyone who
				  has unsupervised access to children in a home, facility, or program. This
				  includes, but is not limited to, persons seeking employment, a volunteer
				  opportunity, an internship, a contract, certification, or a license for a home
				  or facility.
"Licensor"
means either:
(1) A DLR employee who recommends approvals
				for, or monitors licenses or certifications for facilities and agencies
				established under this chapter; or
(2) An employee of a child-placing agency who
				certifies or monitors foster homes supervised by the child-placing agency.
"Unsupervised"
means will not or may not be in
				  the presence of:
(1) The licensee,
				another employee or volunteer from the same business or organization as the
				applicant who has not been disqualified by the background check; or
(2) Another individual who has been
				previously approved by children's administration.
"We"
refers to the department, including
				  licensors and social workers.
"WSP"
refers to the Washington state
				  patrol.