Idaho Administrative Code
Title IDAPA 16 - Health and Welfare, Department of
Rule 16.06.01 - CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES
Section 16.06.01.010 - DEFINITIONS AND ABBREVIATIONS A THROUGH E

01. Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997 (P.L. 105-89) (ASFA). Federal law whose purpose is to improve the safety of children, to promote adoption and other permanent homes for children who need them, and to support families.

02. Adoption Assistance. Funds provided to adoptive parent(s) of a child who has special needs or who could not be adopted without financial or medical assistance.

03. Adoption Services. Protective services through which a child is provided with a permanent home, under new legal parentage, including transfer of the mutual rights and responsibilities that prevail in the parent-child relationship.

04. Alternate Care. Temporary, living arrangements, when necessary for a child to leave their own home, through a variety of foster care, respite care, residential treatment, and institutional resources, under the protections established in Public Law 96-272, the federal "Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980" as amended by Public Law 105-89, the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997, the Child Protective Act, Section 16-1601 et seq., Idaho Code, and the Indian Child Welfare Act, 25 U.S.C. Sections 1901 - 1963.

05. Alternate Care Plan. A federally required component of the Family Plan for a child in alternate care. The alternate care plan contains elements related to reasonable efforts, the family's plan, the child's alternate care provider, compelling reasons for not terminating parental rights, Indian status, education, immunization, medical, and other information important to the day-to-day care of the child.

06. Board. The Idaho State Board of Health and Welfare.

07. Case Management. A change-oriented service to families that ensures and coordinates the provision of family ongoing assessment, family service planning, treatment, planning for permanency, protection, advocacy, review and reassessment, documentation, and timely closure of a case.

08. Certified Adoption Professional (formerly "qualified individual"). An individual certified by the Department who meets the qualifications specified in Section 889 of these rules for completion of pre-placement adoption home studies, reports to the court under the Termination of Parent and Child Relationship and Adoption of Children Acts, and placement supervision reports.

09. Child and Family Services (CFS). Those programs and services provided to families and children, administered by the Department in accordance with these rules.

10. Child Protection. All children under eighteen (18) who have been harmed or threatened with harm by a person responsible for their health or welfare through non-accidental physical or mental injury, sexual abuse (as defined by state law) or negligent treatment or maltreatment, including the failure to provide adequate food, clothing, or shelter must be served without regard to income.

11. Child Protective Services. Services provided in response to potential, alleged, or actual abuse, neglect, or abandonment of individuals under the age of eighteen (18) in accordance with the provisions of Section 16-1601 et seq., Idaho Code, the "Child Protective Act."

12. Compact Administrator. The individual designated to coordinate interstate transfers of persons requiring special services in accordance with the provisions of Section 16-1901 et seq., Idaho Code, "Interstate Compact for Juveniles"; Section 16-2101 et seq., Idaho Code, "Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children"; or Section 39-7501 et seq., Idaho Code, "Interstate Compact on Adoption and Medical Assistance."

13. Daycare for Children. Care and supervision provided for compensation during part of a twenty-four (24) hour day, for a child or children not related by blood or marriage to the person or persons providing the care, in a place other than the child's or children's own home or homes.

14. Department. The Idaho Department of Health and Welfare.

15. Deprivation. One of the factors used in determining Aid to Families with Dependent Children -- Foster Care (AFDC-FC) eligibility for children in foster care. Deprivation is a lack of, or interruption in, the maintenance, physical care, and parental guidance a child ordinarily receives from one (1) or both parents. A child is deprived by the continued absence of a parent, incapacity of a parent, death of a parent, unemployment or underemployment of the principal wage earner parent.

16. Director. The Director of the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare or their designee.

17. Extended Family Member of an Indian Child. As defined by the law, or custom of an Indian child's tribe or, in the absence of such law or custom, a person who has reached the age of eighteen (18) and who is an Indian child's grandparent, aunt or uncle, brother or sister, brother-in-law or sister-in-law, niece or nephew, first or second cousin, or stepparent.

18. Extended Foster Care. A court order or voluntary case extending foster care placement services and authority for individuals between the ages of eighteen (18) and twenty-one (21) years to help such person achieve a successful transition to adulthood, provided such person must have been in the custody of the department until his eighteenth birthday and must meet the criteria set forth in 42 25 U.S.C. 675(8)(B)(iv).