Alaska Administrative Code
Title 7 - Health and Social Services
Part 3 - Public Assistance and Medical Assistance
Chapter 39 - Child Care Grant Program
Article 1 - Program Provisions
7 AAC 39.025 - Participation in the child care grant program

(a) To participate in the child care grant program, a child care facility must

(b) The number of spaces to be made available under (a)(3) of this section is based on the facility's average daily full-time equivalent units of care under 7 AAC 39.035 for the calendar month preceding the month in which a family requests care. For a facility that does not have an established attendance rate, a fair and reasonable attendance rate must be charged to satisfy (a)(3) of this section. An attendance rate is fair and reasonable if it is consistent with attendance rates charged by other child care facilities in the area or is a proration of the facility's enrollment rate.

(c) The department will determine a facility is participating in the child care assistance program as required by AS 47.25.071 and (a)(1) of this section if at least five percent of the children in care at the facility, or one child, whichever is more, are children described in (a)(3) or (4) of this section. The department will suspend payments under the child care grant program if, after any six-month period, the department finds that the facility has not met the requirements of this subsection during that period, unless the facility shows to the department's satisfaction that good cause exists for failure to meet those requirements. For purposes of this subsection, good cause includes one or more of the following:

(d) If the department waives suspension for good cause under (c) of this section, a new six-month period begins at that time. If the department suspends payment under this subsection, the facility may apply for reinstatement if the facility accepts into care a child described in (a)(3) or (4) of this section.

(e) In this section, "enrollment rate" means a monthly rate for care of a child, based on a consistent schedule of a regular number of units of care per week.