Utah Administrative Code
Topic - Human Services
Title R512 - Child and Family Services
Rule R512-11 - Accommodation of Moral and Religious Beliefs and Culture
Section R512-11-2 - Definitions

(1) "Accommodate" means to adapt, adjust, or make provision to support.

(2) "Utah Family and Children Engagement Tool" (UFACET), means a document that is a collection of formal and informal assessments pertaining to the child and family identifying the strengths, resources, and needs of the family. The UFACET is a working document used to record information, draw conclusions, and inform the Child and Family Plan.

(3) "Child and Family Plan" means the collective intentions of the Child and Family Team documenting specific goals, roles, strategies, resources, and schedules for coordinated provision of assistance, supports, supervision, and services for the child, caregiver, parents, or guardians.

(4) "Child and Family Team" means a group that may consist of the child, the child's family, the Child and Family Services caseworker, the out-of-home provider, relatives, representatives of the family's moral beliefs, religious beliefs, and culture, representatives from education, health care, and law enforcement, the Guardian ad Litem, the parents' attorney, the Attorney General, and other supportive individuals as designated by the family.

(5) "Culture" means the totality of socially transmitted behavior patterns characteristic of a family and includes moral beliefs and religious beliefs.

(6) "Moral beliefs" means ideas of what is right and what is wrong that shape one's outward behavior. Moral beliefs define what is decent and honorable.

(7) "Religious beliefs" means faith or conviction in a system of principles or worship relating to the sacred and uniting its adherents in a community.