| PURPOSE AND DEFINITIONS |
| 388-148-0005 |
What is the purpose of this chapter? |
| 388-148-0010 |
What definitions do I need to know to understand this chapter? |
| 388-148-0015 |
Am I required to have a license to provide care to children? |
| 388-148-0020 |
When is a license not required if I provide care to children? |
| 388-148-0025 |
How do you decide how many children I may serve in my home or facility? |
| GENERAL REQUIREMENTS -- STAFF QUALIFICATIONS |
| 388-148-0030 |
How old do I have to be to apply for a license to provide care to children? |
| 388-148-0035 |
What personal characteristics do I need to provide care to children? |
| GENERAL REQUIREMENTS -- TRAINING REQUIRED |
| 388-148-0040 |
What first-aid and cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) training is required? |
| 388-148-0045 |
What HIV/AIDS and bloodborne pathogens training is required? |
| GENERAL REQUIREMENTS -- APPLICATION AND LICENSING PROCESS |
| 388-148-0050 |
How do I apply for a license? |
| 388-148-0055 |
How long do I have to complete the licensing application packet? |
| 388-148-0058 |
May I receive more than one in-home family license? |
| 388-148-0060 |
May my relative or I be certified by a child-placing agency to be a foster parent and be an employee of that same
agency? |
| 388-148-0065 |
When may I be certified to provide care to children? |
| 388-148-0070 |
Is there a difference between licensing and certification? |
| 388-148-0075 |
May I be licensed with the department and certified by a child-placing agency at the same time? |
| 388-148-0080 |
What may I do if I disagree with the decision of a child-placing agency that I do not meet the licensing
requirements? |
| GENERAL REQUIREMENTS -- CORRECTIVE ACTION |
| 388-148-0085 |
Will the department license or continue to license a home or facility if the home or facility does not meet the
licensing requirements? |
| 388-148-0090 |
Does the department issue probationary license? |
| 388-148-0095 |
When are licenses denied, suspended or revoked? |
| 388-148-0098 |
When is an employee or volunteer disqualified from having unsupervised access to a child in a licensed home,
facility, or agency? |
| 388-148-0100 |
Are there any other reasons that might cause me to lose my license? |
| 388-148-0105 |
How do you notify me if you have modified, denied, suspended, or revoked my license? |
| 388-148-0110 |
What may I do if I disagree with your decision to modify, deny, suspend or revoke my license? |
| 388-148-0115 |
May I appeal the decision of the office of administrative hearings' administrative law judge? |
| GENERAL REQUIREMENTS -- RECORD-KEEPING/REPORTING/PERSONNEL POLICIES/POSTING OF LICENSE |
| 388-148-0120 |
What incidents involving children must I report? |
| 388-148-0123 |
What are my reporting responsibilities when a child is missing from care? |
| 388-148-0125 |
What are your requirements for keeping client records? |
| 388-148-0127 |
What are the requirements for information kept in facility logs for staffed residential homes and group care
programs? |
| 388-148-0130 |
What information may I share about a child or a child's family? |
| 388-148-0135 |
What changes to my home or facility must I report to my licensor? |
| 388-148-0140 |
What personnel policies must I have? |
| 388-148-0145 |
Where do I post my license? |
| GENERAL REQUIREMENTS -- HEALTH AND GENERAL SAFETY |
| 388-148-0150 |
Are local ordinances part of the licensing requirements? |
| 388-148-0155 |
What physical structure safety requirements must my home or facility meet? |
| 388-148-0160 |
What measures must I take for pest control? |
| 388-148-0165 |
What are the requirements regarding the location of my home or facility? |
| 388-148-0170 |
What steps must I take to ensure children's safety around outdoor bodies of water? |
| 388-148-0175 |
What are your requirements regarding pets and animals in my home or facility? |
| 388-148-0180 |
Are alcoholic beverages or illegal drugs allowed at my home or facility? |
| 388-148-0185 |
Is smoking permitted around children? |
| 388-148-0190 |
May I have firearms in my home or facility? |
| 388-148-0195 |
What are your requirements for storing dangerous chemicals or other substances? |
| 388-148-0200 |
Do I need first-aid supplies? |
| 388-148-0205 |
What requirements are there for the storage of medications? |
| 388-148-0210 |
What requirements do I need to follow when I transport children? |
| 388-148-0215 |
May I use wheeled baby walkers? |
| GENERAL REQUIREMENTS -- FIRE SAFETY |
| 388-148-0220 |
What fire safety requirements must I follow to qualify for a license? |
| 388-148-0225 |
What fire safety requirements are there for exits? |
| 388-148-0230 |
Are there other fire safety requirements for inside a foster home or staffed residential home licensed for five or
fewer children? |
| 388-148-0235 |
What are the requirements for smoke detectors for foster homes and staffed residential homes licensed for five or
fewer children? |
| 388-148-0240 |
What are the requirements for fire extinguishers in homes and facilities? |
| 388-148-0245 |
What fire escape measures must be taken for multilevel homes and facilities? |
| 388-148-0250 |
What fire safety instructions must I give to children residing in a home or staffed residential home licensed for five
or fewer children? |
| 388-148-0255 |
What are the requirements for a fire evacuation plan? |
| GENERAL REQUIREMENTS -- ROOM REQUIREMENTS |
| 388-148-0260 |
What are the general requirements for bedrooms? |
| 388-148-0265 |
What are additional requirements for bedrooms for more than one person? |
| 388-148-0270 |
What are the requirements for beds? |
| GENERAL REQUIREMENTS -- TELEPHONE/LIGHTING/VENTILATION/WATER/LAUNDRY/SEWAGE |
| 388-148-0275 |
Do I need a telephone at my home or facility? |
| 388-148-0280 |
What are the lighting requirements for my home or facility? |
| 388-148-0290 |
What does the room temperature for my home or facility need to be? |
| 388-148-0300 |
How must I ventilate my home or facility? |
| 388-148-0305 |
What are the requirements for laundry facilities? |
| 388-148-0310 |
What are the requirements for washing clothes? |
| 388-148-0315 |
What are the requirements for toilets, sinks, and bathing facilities? |
| 388-148-0320 |
What are the requirements about drinking water? |
| 388-148-0325 |
What are the requirements for sewage and liquid wastes? |
| GENERAL REQUIREMENTS -- MEDICAL CARE AND MEDICATION MANAGEMENT |
| 388-148-0330 |
Am I required to obtain a child's health history? |
| 388-148-0335 |
When must I get an EPSDT exam for a child under my care? |
| 388-148-0340 |
What are the requirements for immunizations for children? |
| 388-148-0345 |
What must I do to prevent the spread of infections and communicable diseases? |
| 388-148-0350 |
What are the requirements for obtaining consent for medical care for children under my care? |
| 388-148-0352 |
What are the requirements for the management of medication for children in my care? |
| 388-148-0355 |
May I accept medicine from a child's parent or guardian? |
| 388-148-0365 |
When may children take their own medicine? |
| GENERAL REQUIREMENTS -- FOOD/DIET/INFANT CARE |
| 388-148-0370 |
What food and meal guidelines must I follow? |
| 388-148-0375 |
How often must I feed children? |
| 388-148-0380 |
How do I handle a child's special diet? |
| 388-148-0385 |
Are there special requirements for serving milk? |
| 388-148-0390 |
What home-canned foods may I use? |
| 388-148-0395 |
What requirements must I meet for feeding babies? |
| 388-148-0400 |
What are the requirements for diapers and diaper-changing areas? |
| GENERAL REQUIREMENTS -- CLOTHING AND PERSONAL HYGIENE |
| 388-148-0405 |
Do I have responsibility for a child's clothing? |
| 388-148-0410 |
May a child take personal belongings after being discharged from a home or facility? |
| 388-148-0415 |
Do I have responsibility for a child's personal hygiene? |
| GENERAL REQUIREMENTS -- CLIENT RIGHTS |
| 388-148-0420 |
What are the requirements for protecting a child under my care from abuse and neglect? |
| 388-148-0422 |
What are the requirements for privacy for children in out-of-home placements? |
| 388-148-0425 |
What are the requirements about nondiscrimination? |
| 388-148-0430 |
May I take a foster child to church services, temple, mosque or synagogue? |
| 388-148-0435 |
Do I have to admit or retain all children? |
| 388-148-0440 |
What must I consider in assigning work to children in my home or facility? |
| 388-148-0445 |
What toys and activities must I provide to children? |
| 388-148-0455 |
Do I need permission to travel on an overnight trip or out-of-state with my foster child? |
| GENERAL REQUIREMENTS -- SUPERVISION |
| 388-148-0460 |
What requirements do you have for supervising children? |
| GENERAL REQUIREMENTS -- DISCIPLINE |
| 388-148-0465 |
What requirements must I follow when disciplining children? |
| 388-148-0470 |
What types of disciplinary practices are forbidden? |
| 388-148-0475 |
Do you require a written statement describing my discipline methods? |
| GENERAL REQUIREMENTS -- PHYSICAL RESTRAINT |
| 388-148-0480 |
When may a child be restrained? |
| 388-148-0485 |
What types of physical restraint are not acceptable for children? |
| 388-148-0487 |
Are there requirements for time-out or quiet rooms? |
| 388-148-0488 |
Are time-delay mechanisms allowed on windows and doors of a facility or staffed residential home licensed for six? |
| 388-148-0490 |
What must I do following an incident that involved using physical restraint? |
| FOSTER HOME REQUIREMENTS |
| 388-148-0505 |
What services must a foster parent be able to provide? |
| 388-148-0510 |
What educational support must I provide to children under my care? |
| FOSTER HOMES -- FOSTER PARENT QUALIFICATIONS/TRAINING/CAPACITY ALLOWED |
| 388-148-0515 |
What is the minimum age to be a foster parent? |
| 388-148-0520 |
What are the training requirements for foster parents and prospective foster parents? |
| 388-148-0525 |
How many children may my foster home serve? |
| FOSTER HOMES -- FOSTER PARENT EMPLOYMENT AND RESPITE |
| 388-148-0530 |
May I be employed if I am a foster parent? |
| 388-148-0535 |
Do I need to have income separate from foster care payments? |
| 388-148-0540 |
When may I use respite care? |
| 388-148-0541 |
Excluding respite care, who may provide care to a foster child in the foster home when the foster parent is away
from the home? |
| 388-148-0542 |
May a foster child be supervised by someone under eighteen in the foster home? |
| 388-148-0545 |
May I place my foster child with another family temporarily? |
| 388-148-0550 |
May my foster children participate in routine activities without a licensed provider supervising the activity? |
| REQUIREMENTS FOR ALL LICENSES, EXCEPT FOSTER HOMES -- PROGRAM AND SERVICES |
| 388-148-0555 |
Do I need a social summary for children under my care? |
| 388-148-0560 |
Do I need a treatment plan for children under my care? |
| 388-148-0565 |
Do you need to approve the program that I offer for children under my care? |
| 388-148-0570 |
What education and vocational instruction must I provide to the children under my care? |
| 388-148-0575 |
What medical policies and procedures must I have? |
| 388-148-0580 |
What nursing services must I provide? |
ALL LICENSES EXCEPT FOSTER HOMES AND GROUP RECEIVING
CENTERS -- SOCIAL SERVICE STAFF QUALIFICATIONS AND STAFFING RATIOS |
| 388-148-0585 |
What social service staff do I need? |
| 388-148-0590 |
What clerical, accounting and administrative services do I need for my home or facility? |
| 388-148-0595 |
What support and maintenance staff do I need for my home or facility? |
| 388-148-0600 |
Do I need professional consultants for my program? |
| 388-148-0605 |
Is in-service training required? |
| 388-148-0610 |
What are the required ratios of social service staff to children under care? |
| GROUP CARE FACILITIES AND STAFFED RESIDENTIAL HOMES LICENSED FOR SIX CHILDREN -- FIRE SAFETY
REQUIREMENTS |
| 388-148-0620 |
What safety features do I need for hazardous areas? |
| 388-148-0625 |
What other requirements must I follow for smoke detectors? |
| 388-148-0640 |
What fire safety procedures do staff of a group care facility and a staffed residential home licensed for six children
need to know? |
| 388-148-0645 |
What are the requirements for fire drills and testing smoke detectors? |
| 388-148-0655 |
Are there different construction and fire safety requirements for facilities that have multiple licenses in the same
building? |
| GROUP CARE FACILITIES AND STAFFED RESIDENTIAL HOMES -- FOOD AND MEALS |
| 388-148-0660 |
Do mealtimes need to be established? |
| 388-148-0665 |
Do you have general menu requirements? |
| GROUP CARE -- PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS AND SERVICES |
| 388-148-0670 |
What types of group care programs are licensed to provide care to children? |
| 388-148-0680 |
What basic elements must a group care program include? |
| 388-148-0685 |
Who may a group care program provider serve? |
| 388-148-0690 |
What services must I provide if I have a group care license? |
| 388-148-0695 |
Must I give a child an allowance? |
| GROUP CARE -- STAFF QUALIFICATIONS AND STAFFING RATIOS |
| 388-148-0700 |
What are the qualifications for an executive director for a group care program or child-placing agency? |
| 388-148-0705 |
Do I need an on-site program manager or social service staff at each group care facility? |
| 388-148-0710 |
What are the responsibilities of the on-site program manager or social service staff for a group care facility? |
| 388-148-0715 |
What qualifications must the on-site program manager, or social service staff for a group care program or a CPA
program manager have? |
| 388-148-0718 |
What are the responsibilities for child care staff at a group care program? |
| 388-148-0720 |
What are the qualifications for child care staff and case aides? |
| 388-148-0722 |
What are the qualifications for health care staff for a group care program or a child-placing agency caring for
medically fragile children? |
| 388-148-0725 |
What is the ratio of child care staff to children in group care facilities? |
| GROUP CARE -- ROOM REQUIREMENTS |
| 388-148-0730 |
Are there room requirements for group care facilities? |
| 388-148-0740 |
What are the kitchen requirements? |
| SPECIFIC PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS -- MATERNITY SERVICES |
| 388-148-0745 |
Who may provide maternity services? |
| 388-148-0750 |
What maternity services must I provide? |
| 388-148-0755 |
How are maternity services delivered? |
| 388-148-0760 |
Do you need to approve daily activities that I offer to expectant or new mothers? |
| 388-148-0765 |
What types of health education must I offer expectant and new mothers? |
| 388-148-0770 |
Is a group care program required to provide child care? |
| 388-148-0775 |
Do expectant and new mothers need to be under a physician's care? |
| 388-148-0780 |
What are my responsibilities if a specialist is required? |
| MATERNITY SERVICES -- STAFF QUALIFICATIONS AND STAFFING RATIOS |
| 388-148-0785 |
What is the proper ratio of staff to children in home or group care facilities offering maternity services? |
| MATERNITY SERVICES -- ROOM REQUIREMENTS |
| 388-148-0790 |
Do you have room requirements for facilities offering maternity services? |
| 388-148-0795 |
How is capacity determined for a maternity services facility? |
| DAY TREATMENT PROGRAMS -- PROGRAM AND SERVICES |
| 388-148-0800 |
What is the purpose of day treatment programs? |
| DAY TREATMENT PROGRAMS -- STAFF QUALIFICATIONS AND STAFFING RATIOS |
| 388-148-0805 |
What staff must my day treatment program have? |
| 388-148-0810 |
What consultants must my day treatment program have? |
| 388-148-0815 |
What is the ratio of counselor and teaching staff to children in a day treatment program? |
| GROUP CARE PROGRAMS FOR MEDICALLY FRAGILE CHILDREN AND CHILDREN WITH SEVERE
DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES -- PROGRAM AND SERVICES |
| 388-148-0820 |
What type of care is offered for medically fragile children and children with severe developmental disabilities? |
| 388-148-0825 |
Who provides services for medically fragile children and children with severe developmental disabilities? |
| 388-148-0830 |
What services must be provide for medically fragile children and children with severe developmental disabilities? |
| 388-148-0835 |
Do I need to have a multidisciplinary care plan for medically fragile children and children with severe developmental
disabilities? |
| 388-148-0840 |
What must the multidisciplinary care plan for a medically fragile child or a child with severe developmental
disabilities include? |
| 388-148-0845 |
What are the requirements for nurses in programs who care for medically fragile children or children with severe
developmental disabilities? |
| 388-148-0850 |
When do I use a nurse? |
| GROUP CARE PROGRAMS FOR MEDICALLY FRAGILE CHILDREN OR CHILDREN WITH SEVERE DEVELOPMENTAL
DISABILITIES -- ROOM REQUIREMENTS |
| 388-148-0855 |
Do I need to provide a therapy room for children with severe developmental disabilities? |
| 388-148-0860 |
Are there room requirements for group care facilities for medically fragile children less than age six? |
| GROUP CARE PROGRAMS FOR MEDICALLY FRAGILE CHILDREN AND CHILDREN WITH SEVERE
DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES -- FOOD AND MEALS |
| 388-148-0865 |
What food requirements exist for medically fragile children and children with severe developmental disabilities? |
| GROUP CARE PROGRAMS FOR MEDICALLY FRAGILE CHILDREN AND CHILDREN WITH SEVERE
DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES -- RECORD-KEEPING |
| 388-148-0870 |
What additional record-keeping requirements exist for medically fragile children and children with severe
developmental disabilities? |
| CRISIS RESIDENTIAL CENTERS -- PROGRAM/LEVELS OF SECURITY/PLACEMENT AND SERVICES |
| 388-148-0875 |
What types of crisis residential centers may be licensed? |
| 388-148-0880 |
What levels of secure CRCs exist? |
| 388-148-0885 |
What are the requirements for a level-one secure CRC? |
| 388-148-0890 |
What are the requirements for a level-two secure CRC? |
| 388-148-0892 |
What are the requirements for a level three secure CRC? |
| 388-148-0895 |
May a juvenile detention center operate as a separate secure CRC program? |
| 388-148-0900 |
What youth may a CRC serve? |
| 388-148-0905 |
Can law enforcement officers place youth in secure CRCs? |
| 388-148-0910 |
What hours do CRCs have to be open? |
| 388-148-0915 |
What steps must be taken after a youth is admitted into a CRC? |
| 388-148-0920 |
What if a youth seems unlikely to remain in a regular CRC? |
| 388-148-0925 |
What happens when no space exists at a secure CRC? |
| 388-148-0930 |
How is a youth transferred from one type of CRC to another? |
| 388-148-0940 |
What does a youth's orientation to a CRC need to include? |
| 388-148-0945 |
What intervention services must be provided or arranged for by the CRC? |
| 388-148-0950 |
What behavior management practices are required for a CRC? |
| CRISIS RESIDENTIAL CENTERS -- MULTIDISCIPLINARY TEAM |
| 388-148-0955 |
What is the purpose of a multidisciplinary team in a CRC? |
| 388-148-0960 |
When may a multidisciplinary team be requested? |
| 388-148-0965 |
How is a multidisciplinary team convened? |
| 388-148-0970 |
May a parent disband the multidisciplinary team? |
| CRISIS RESIDENTIAL CENTERS -- STAFF QUALIFICATIONS AND STAFFING RATIOS |
| 388-148-0975 |
What qualifications must a crisis residential center executive director have? |
| 388-148-0980 |
Do I need a program manager on-site at each facility? |
| 388-148-0985 |
What qualifications must the on-site program manager for a crisis residential program have? |
| 388-148-0990 |
What additional qualifications must the crisis residential center youth care staff have? |
| 388-148-0995 |
What are the ratio requirements of youth care staff to youth in crisis residential centers? |
| CRISIS RESIDENTIAL CENTERS -- STAFF TRAINING |
| 388-148-1000 |
What training must staff at a crisis residential center have? |
| CRISIS RESIDENTIAL CENTERS -- RECORD-KEEPING |
| 388-148-1005 |
What record keeping is required for crisis residential centers? |
| 388-148-1010 |
What additional record-keeping requirements exist for secure crisis residential centers? |
| STAFFED RESIDENTIAL HOMES -- PROGRAM AND SERVICES |
| 388-148-1015 |
What is the purpose of a staffed residential home? |
| 388-148-1025 |
What must be included in a written program description for a staffed residential home? |
| 388-148-1030 |
What services must a staffed residential home provide? |
| STAFF RESIDENTIAL HOMES -- STAFF QUALIFICATIONS, STAFFING RATIOS, AND CAPACITY |
| 388-148-1035 |
Who must be on the premises when children are under care at a staffed residential home? |
| 388-148-1040 |
What are the qualifications for staff at a staffed residential home? |
| 388-148-1045 |
What is the ratio of child care staff to children in staffed residential homes? |
| 388-148-1050 |
How many children may I serve in my staffed residential home? |
| STAFFED RESIDENTIAL HOMES -- ROOM REQUIREMENTS |
| 388-148-1055 |
Are there room requirements for staffed residential homes? |
| CHILD-PLACING AGENCIES -- PROGRAM AND SERVICES |
| 388-148-1060 |
What services may a child-placing agency provide? |
| 388-148-1066 |
What written information is needed before a child is accepted for care by a child-placing agency? |
| 388-148-1070 |
What health histories need to be provided to foster or adoptive parents? |
| 388-148-1075 |
When may child-placing agencies from outside the state place children in this state? |
| CHILD-PLACING AGENCY STAFF QUALIFICATIONS |
| 388-148-1076 |
What are the qualifications for an executive director, a program manager/social service staff, and a consultant for a
child-placing agency? |
| 388-148-1077 |
What are the qualifications for a case aide for a child-placing agency program? |
| 388-148-1078 |
What are the qualifications for health care staff hired or contracted by a child-placing agency to provide services to
children in care? |
| 388-148-1079 |
What are the qualifications or the foster home licensor for a child-placing agency? |
| CHILD-PLACING AGENCIES -- ROOM REQUIREMENTS |
| 388-148-1080 |
Are child-placing agencies required to have office space? |
| CHILD-PLACING AGENCIES -- FOSTER CARE SERVICES |
| 388-148-1085 |
How may my child-placing agency certify a foster home for licensing by the department? |
| 388-148-1090 |
What children may child-placing agency foster homes accept? |
| 388-148-1095 |
May different child-placing agencies share eligible foster parents for placement? |
| 388-148-1100 |
What do I need to consider in making foster care placements? |
| 388-148-1105 |
May I share information about the child with the foster parents? |
| 388-148-1110 |
How often should the case manager contact the foster child and family? |
| CHILD-PLACING AGENCIES -- ADOPTION SERVICES |
| 388-148-1115 |
What are the requirements for providing adoptive services? |
| 388-148-1120 |
What is the process for adoptions? |
| 388-148-1125 |
What requirements exist for specialized adoptive services? |
| CHILD-PLACING AGENCIES -- ADOPTION RECORDS |
| 388-148-1130 |
Must my child-placing agency retain the records of adopted children? |
| 388-148-1135 |
What happens to the adopted children's records if my agency closes? |
| GROUP CARE FACILITIES -- GROUP RECEIVING CENTERS PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS AND SERVICES |
| 388-148-1205 |
What is a group receiving center? |
| 388-148-1210 |
What age children may a center serve? |
| 388-148-1215 |
What hours must a center be open? |
| 388-148-1220 |
What services are provided or arranged for by a group receiving center? |
| 388-148-1225 |
Is a center required to provide an orientation for a child placed? |
| 388-148-1230 |
Does each child need space for personal items at the center? |
| GROUP RECEIVING CENTERS -- STAFF TRAINING |
| 388-148-1235 |
What staff training is required? |
| GROUP CARE FACILITIES-GROUP RECEIVING CENTERS -- STAFFING RATIOS AND SUPERVISION |
| 388-148-1240 |
What is the ratio of child care staff to children at a center? |
| 388-148-1245 |
What are the requirements for supervision of children at a center? |
| 388-148-1250 |
Who must be on the premises while children are in care at a center? |
| GROUP CARE FACILITY-GROUP RECEIVING CENTERS -- RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES, EQUIPMENT, AND SPACE |
| 388-148-1255 |
What are the requirements for an activity program? |
| 388-148-1260 |
What activities must I provide to children? |
| 388-148-1265 |
What are the requirements for indoor recreation areas? |
| 388-148-1270 |
What are the requirements for an outdoor recreation area? |
| 388-148-1275 |
What are the size requirements for an outdoor recreation area? |
| 388-148-1280 |
What are the requirements for playground equipment? |