6-005.02 Definitions Licensing Group Homes and Child Caring and Child Placing Agencies

Agency Affiliation: An agreement between a group home and a legal entity for the latter to provide social service, administration, direction, and control of a facility licensed as a group home.

Child Caring Agency: An agency incorporated to provide care for children in buildings maintained by the organization for that purpose.

Wilderness Challenge Program: A time-limited, highly structured outdoors program and intensive residential program designed to challenge adjudicated youth through experiential learning. This program will have a primary site of constructed buildings. This primary site will be designated on the license. Expedition sites are those sites where youth are taken from the primary site and an overnight sleeping event occurs.

Child Placing Agency: An organization authorized by its articles of incorporation to place children in foster family or adoptive homes.

Group Home: A home operated under the auspices of an organization which is responsible for providing social services, administration, direction, and control for the home and which is designed to provide 24-hour care for 12 or fewer foster children in residential setting.

Licensing Agent: A staff person who directly handles a licensing case.

Operating License: A legal document effective for two years which allows care to be provided for children to be placed for care or adoption.

Provisional License: A time limited, non renewable license issued to an applicant who is unable to comply with all licensure requirements and standards, and is capable of compliance within the time period stated on the license.

Probationary License: A time-limited, nonrenewable license that is issued to a licensee who agrees to establish compliance with rules and regulations that, when violated, do not present an unreasonable risk to the health, safety, or well-being of the foster children in care.