New Jersey Administrative Code
Title 3A - CHILDREN AND FAMILIES
Chapter 23 - ADOPTIONS
Subchapter 1 - ADOPTION SUBSIDY
Section 3A:23-1.1 - Definitions

Universal Citation: NJ Admin Code 3A:23-1.1
Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 18, September 16, 2024

The following words and terms used in this chapter shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:

"Adoption subsidy" means payments for the care and maintenance of a child with special needs.

"Board rate" means the rate paid to the resource family for the child at the time of finalization or that which would have been paid for the child if the child was in placement.

"Child" means any person under the age of 18 or approved for continued adoption subsidy up to the maximum age of 21.

"Child with special needs" means any child who the State of New Jersey or a private adoption agency licensed to operate in New Jersey has the legal right to place for adoption, but who is reasonably expected to be hard to place (due to a difficulty in finding a prospective adoptive home) as specified in N.J.A.C. 3A:23-1.2.

"CP&P Director" means the Director of the Division of Child Protection and Permanency in the Department of Children and Families.

"Department" means the New Jersey Department of Children and Families.

"DYFS Director" means the Director of the Division of Youth and Family Services in the Department of Children and Families.

"Resource family parent" means a person who has received a resource family parent license from the State of New Jersey in order to provide foster, adoptive, or kinship care.

"Resource parent" means a person who has received a resource parent license from the State of New Jersey in order to provide foster, adoptive or kinship care.

"Special needs child" means any child who the State of New Jersey has the legal right to place for adoption but who is reasonably expected to be hard to place (due to a difficulty in finding a prospective adoptive home) as specified in 3A:23-1.2.

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