Oklahoma Administrative Code
Title 317 - Oklahoma Health Care Authority
Chapter 30 - Medical Providers-Fee for Service
Subchapter 5 - Individual Providers and Specialties
Part 83 - THERAPEUTIC FOSTER CARE
Section 317:30-5-740 - Definitions

The following words or terms used in this Part shall have the following meaning, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:

"Therapeutic foster" care (TFC) agency" means a foster care agency that provides foster care as defined in Section 1355.20 of Title 45 of the Code of Federal Regulation as twenty-four (24) hour substitute care for children placed away from their parents or guardians and for whom the title IV-E agency has placement and care responsibility. TFC settings are foster family homes.

"TFC home" means an agency-supervised, private family home in which foster parents have been trained to provide individualized, structured services in a safe, nurturing family-living environment. The children receiving services in this setting have moderate behavioral and emotional health needs, and may also present secondary physical, developmental, intellectual, and/or social disorder that is supported alongside the mental health needs. TFC homes are considered the least restrictive out-of-home placement for these children.

"Therapeutic foster care (TFC) model" means a model in which children in the TFC environment receive increased individualized behavioral health and other support services from qualified staff. Because TFC members require exceptional levels of skill, time, and supervision, the number of unrelated children placed per home is limited; no more than two (2) TFC members may be placed in a home at any one (1) time unless additional cases are specifically authorized by Child Welfare Services (CWS) of the Oklahoma Department of Human Services (OKDHS), or Oklahoma Office of Juvenile Affairs (OJA).

Added at 12 Ok Reg 751, eff 1-5-95 through 7-14-95 (emergency); Added at 12 Ok Reg 3131, eff 7-27-95; Amended at 13 Ok Reg 4049, eff 9-17-96 (emergency); Amended at 14 Ok Reg 1780, eff 5-27-97; Amended at 17 Ok Reg 2402, eff 6-26-00; Amended at 20 Ok Reg 523, eff 12-1-02 (emergency); Amended at 20 Ok Reg 1216, eff 5-27-03; Amended at 23 Ok Reg 2566, eff 6-25-06; Amended at 24 Ok Reg 2857, eff 7-1-07 through 7-14-08 (emergency)1; Amended at 25 Ok Reg 2683, eff 7-25-08; Amended at 27 Ok Reg 1360, eff 4-21-10 (emergency); Amended at 28 Ok Reg 1419, eff 6-25-11

1This emergency action expired on 7-14-08 before being superseded by a permanent action. Upon expiration of an emergency amendatory action, the last effective permanent text is reinstated. Therefore, on 7-15-08 (after the 7-14-08 expiration of the emergency action), the text of 317:30-5-740 reverted back to the permanent text that became effective 6-25-06, as was last published in the 2006 Edition of the OAC, and remained as such until amended again by permanent action on 7-25-08.