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Chapter 388-148 WAC

Last Update: 3/25/13

LICENSING REQUIREMENTS FOR CHILD FOSTER HOMES, STAFFED RESIDENTIAL HOMES, GROUP RESIDENTIAL FACILITIES, AND CHILD-PLACING AGENCIES

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PURPOSE AND DEFINITIONS
388-148-0005 What is the purpose of this chapter?
388-148-0010 What definitions do I need to know to understand this chapter?
388-148-0015 Am I required to have a license to provide care to children?
388-148-0020 When is a license not required if I provide care to children?
388-148-0025 How do you decide how many children I may serve in my home or facility?
GENERAL REQUIREMENTS -- STAFF QUALIFICATIONS
388-148-0030 How old do I have to be to apply for a license to provide care to children?
388-148-0035 What personal characteristics do I need to provide care to children?
GENERAL REQUIREMENTS -- TRAINING REQUIRED
388-148-0040 What first-aid and cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) training is required?
388-148-0045 What HIV/AIDS and bloodborne pathogens training is required?
GENERAL REQUIREMENTS -- APPLICATION AND LICENSING PROCESS
388-148-0050 How do I apply for a license?
388-148-0055 How long do I have to complete the licensing application packet?
388-148-0058 May I receive more than one in-home family license?
388-148-0060 May my relative or I be certified by a child-placing agency to be a foster parent and be an employee of that same agency?
388-148-0065 When may I be certified to provide care to children?
388-148-0070 Is there a difference between licensing and certification?
388-148-0075 May I be licensed with the department and certified by a child-placing agency at the same time?
388-148-0080 What may I do if I disagree with the decision of a child-placing agency that I do not meet the licensing requirements?
GENERAL REQUIREMENTS -- CORRECTIVE ACTION
388-148-0085 Will the department license or continue to license a home or facility if the home or facility does not meet the licensing requirements?
388-148-0090 Does the department issue probationary license?
388-148-0095 When are licenses denied, suspended or revoked?
388-148-0098 When is an employee or volunteer disqualified from having unsupervised access to a child in a licensed home, facility, or agency?
388-148-0100 Are there any other reasons that might cause me to lose my license?
388-148-0105 How do you notify me if you have modified, denied, suspended, or revoked my license?
388-148-0110 What may I do if I disagree with your decision to modify, deny, suspend or revoke my license?
388-148-0115 May I appeal the decision of the office of administrative hearings' administrative law judge?
GENERAL REQUIREMENTS -- RECORD-KEEPING/REPORTING/PERSONNEL POLICIES/POSTING OF LICENSE
388-148-0120 What incidents involving children must I report?
388-148-0123 What are my reporting responsibilities when a child is missing from care?
388-148-0125 What are your requirements for keeping client records?
388-148-0127 What are the requirements for information kept in facility logs for staffed residential homes and group care programs?
388-148-0130 What information may I share about a child or a child's family?
388-148-0135 What changes to my home or facility must I report to my licensor?
388-148-0140 What personnel policies must I have?
388-148-0145 Where do I post my license?
GENERAL REQUIREMENTS -- HEALTH AND GENERAL SAFETY
388-148-0150 Are local ordinances part of the licensing requirements?
388-148-0155 What physical structure safety requirements must my home or facility meet?
388-148-0160 What measures must I take for pest control?
388-148-0165 What are the requirements regarding the location of my home or facility?
388-148-0170 What steps must I take to ensure children's safety around outdoor bodies of water?
388-148-0175 What are your requirements regarding pets and animals in my home or facility?
388-148-0180 Are alcoholic beverages or illegal drugs allowed at my home or facility?
388-148-0185 Is smoking permitted around children?
388-148-0190 May I have firearms in my home or facility?
388-148-0195 What are your requirements for storing dangerous chemicals or other substances?
388-148-0200 Do I need first-aid supplies?
388-148-0205 What requirements are there for the storage of medications?
388-148-0210 What requirements do I need to follow when I transport children?
388-148-0215 May I use wheeled baby walkers?
GENERAL REQUIREMENTS -- FIRE SAFETY
388-148-0220 What fire safety requirements must I follow to qualify for a license?
388-148-0225 What fire safety requirements are there for exits?
388-148-0230 Are there other fire safety requirements for inside a foster home or staffed residential home licensed for five or fewer children?
388-148-0235 What are the requirements for smoke detectors for foster homes and staffed residential homes licensed for five or fewer children?
388-148-0240 What are the requirements for fire extinguishers in homes and facilities?
388-148-0245 What fire escape measures must be taken for multilevel homes and facilities?
388-148-0250 What fire safety instructions must I give to children residing in a home or staffed residential home licensed for five or fewer children?
388-148-0255 What are the requirements for a fire evacuation plan?
GENERAL REQUIREMENTS -- ROOM REQUIREMENTS
388-148-0260 What are the general requirements for bedrooms?
388-148-0265 What are additional requirements for bedrooms for more than one person?
388-148-0270 What are the requirements for beds?
GENERAL REQUIREMENTS -- TELEPHONE/LIGHTING/VENTILATION/WATER/LAUNDRY/SEWAGE
388-148-0275 Do I need a telephone at my home or facility?
388-148-0280 What are the lighting requirements for my home or facility?
388-148-0290 What does the room temperature for my home or facility need to be?
388-148-0300 How must I ventilate my home or facility?
388-148-0305 What are the requirements for laundry facilities?
388-148-0310 What are the requirements for washing clothes?
388-148-0315 What are the requirements for toilets, sinks, and bathing facilities?
388-148-0320 What are the requirements about drinking water?
388-148-0325 What are the requirements for sewage and liquid wastes?
GENERAL REQUIREMENTS -- MEDICAL CARE AND MEDICATION MANAGEMENT
388-148-0330 Am I required to obtain a child's health history?
388-148-0335 When must I get an EPSDT exam for a child under my care?
388-148-0340 What are the requirements for immunizations for children?
388-148-0345 What must I do to prevent the spread of infections and communicable diseases?
388-148-0350 What are the requirements for obtaining consent for medical care for children under my care?
388-148-0352 What are the requirements for the management of medication for children in my care?
388-148-0355 May I accept medicine from a child's parent or guardian?
388-148-0365 When may children take their own medicine?
GENERAL REQUIREMENTS -- FOOD/DIET/INFANT CARE
388-148-0370 What food and meal guidelines must I follow?
388-148-0375 How often must I feed children?
388-148-0380 How do I handle a child's special diet?
388-148-0385 Are there special requirements for serving milk?
388-148-0390 What home-canned foods may I use?
388-148-0395 What requirements must I meet for feeding babies?
388-148-0400 What are the requirements for diapers and diaper-changing areas?
GENERAL REQUIREMENTS -- CLOTHING AND PERSONAL HYGIENE
388-148-0405 Do I have responsibility for a child's clothing?
388-148-0410 May a child take personal belongings after being discharged from a home or facility?
388-148-0415 Do I have responsibility for a child's personal hygiene?
GENERAL REQUIREMENTS -- CLIENT RIGHTS
388-148-0420 What are the requirements for protecting a child under my care from abuse and neglect?
388-148-0422 What are the requirements for privacy for children in out-of-home placements?
388-148-0425 What are the requirements about nondiscrimination?
388-148-0430 May I take a foster child to church services, temple, mosque or synagogue?
388-148-0435 Do I have to admit or retain all children?
388-148-0440 What must I consider in assigning work to children in my home or facility?
388-148-0445 What toys and activities must I provide to children?
388-148-0455 Do I need permission to travel on an overnight trip or out-of-state with my foster child?
GENERAL REQUIREMENTS -- SUPERVISION
388-148-0460 What requirements do you have for supervising children?
GENERAL REQUIREMENTS -- DISCIPLINE
388-148-0465 What requirements must I follow when disciplining children?
388-148-0470 What types of disciplinary practices are forbidden?
388-148-0475 Do you require a written statement describing my discipline methods?
GENERAL REQUIREMENTS -- PHYSICAL RESTRAINT
388-148-0480 When may a child be restrained?
388-148-0485 What types of physical restraint are not acceptable for children?
388-148-0487 Are there requirements for time-out or quiet rooms?
388-148-0488 Are time-delay mechanisms allowed on windows and doors of a facility or staffed residential home licensed for six?
388-148-0490 What must I do following an incident that involved using physical restraint?
FOSTER HOME REQUIREMENTS
388-148-0505 What services must a foster parent be able to provide?
388-148-0510 What educational support must I provide to children under my care?
FOSTER HOMES -- FOSTER PARENT QUALIFICATIONS/TRAINING/CAPACITY ALLOWED
388-148-0515 What is the minimum age to be a foster parent?
388-148-0520 What are the training requirements for foster parents and prospective foster parents?
388-148-0525 How many children may my foster home serve?
FOSTER HOMES -- FOSTER PARENT EMPLOYMENT AND RESPITE
388-148-0530 May I be employed if I am a foster parent?
388-148-0535 Do I need to have income separate from foster care payments?
388-148-0540 When may I use respite care?
388-148-0541 Excluding respite care, who may provide care to a foster child in the foster home when the foster parent is away from the home?
388-148-0542 May a foster child be supervised by someone under eighteen in the foster home?
388-148-0545 May I place my foster child with another family temporarily?
388-148-0550 May my foster children participate in routine activities without a licensed provider supervising the activity?
REQUIREMENTS FOR ALL LICENSES, EXCEPT FOSTER HOMES -- PROGRAM AND SERVICES
388-148-0555 Do I need a social summary for children under my care?
388-148-0560 Do I need a treatment plan for children under my care?
388-148-0565 Do you need to approve the program that I offer for children under my care?
388-148-0570 What education and vocational instruction must I provide to the children under my care?
388-148-0575 What medical policies and procedures must I have?
388-148-0580 What nursing services must I provide?
ALL LICENSES EXCEPT FOSTER HOMES AND GROUP RECEIVING

CENTERS -- SOCIAL SERVICE STAFF QUALIFICATIONS AND STAFFING RATIOS
388-148-0585 What social service staff do I need?
388-148-0590 What clerical, accounting and administrative services do I need for my home or facility?
388-148-0595 What support and maintenance staff do I need for my home or facility?
388-148-0600 Do I need professional consultants for my program?
388-148-0605 Is in-service training required?
388-148-0610 What are the required ratios of social service staff to children under care?
GROUP CARE FACILITIES AND STAFFED RESIDENTIAL HOMES LICENSED FOR SIX CHILDREN -- FIRE SAFETY REQUIREMENTS
388-148-0620 What safety features do I need for hazardous areas?
388-148-0625 What other requirements must I follow for smoke detectors?
388-148-0640 What fire safety procedures do staff of a group care facility and a staffed residential home licensed for six children need to know?
388-148-0645 What are the requirements for fire drills and testing smoke detectors?
388-148-0655 Are there different construction and fire safety requirements for facilities that have multiple licenses in the same building?
GROUP CARE FACILITIES AND STAFFED RESIDENTIAL HOMES -- FOOD AND MEALS
388-148-0660 Do mealtimes need to be established?
388-148-0665 Do you have general menu requirements?
GROUP CARE -- PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS AND SERVICES
388-148-0670 What types of group care programs are licensed to provide care to children?
388-148-0680 What basic elements must a group care program include?
388-148-0685 Who may a group care program provider serve?
388-148-0690 What services must I provide if I have a group care license?
388-148-0695 Must I give a child an allowance?
GROUP CARE -- STAFF QUALIFICATIONS AND STAFFING RATIOS
388-148-0700 What are the qualifications for an executive director for a group care program or child-placing agency?
388-148-0705 Do I need an on-site program manager or social service staff at each group care facility?
388-148-0710 What are the responsibilities of the on-site program manager or social service staff for a group care facility?
388-148-0715 What qualifications must the on-site program manager, or social service staff for a group care program or a CPA program manager have?
388-148-0718 What are the responsibilities for child care staff at a group care program?
388-148-0720 What are the qualifications for child care staff and case aides?
388-148-0722 What are the qualifications for health care staff for a group care program or a child-placing agency caring for medically fragile children?
388-148-0725 What is the ratio of child care staff to children in group care facilities?
GROUP CARE -- ROOM REQUIREMENTS
388-148-0730 Are there room requirements for group care facilities?
388-148-0740 What are the kitchen requirements?
SPECIFIC PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS -- MATERNITY SERVICES
388-148-0745 Who may provide maternity services?
388-148-0750 What maternity services must I provide?
388-148-0755 How are maternity services delivered?
388-148-0760 Do you need to approve daily activities that I offer to expectant or new mothers?
388-148-0765 What types of health education must I offer expectant and new mothers?
388-148-0770 Is a group care program required to provide child care?
388-148-0775 Do expectant and new mothers need to be under a physician's care?
388-148-0780 What are my responsibilities if a specialist is required?
MATERNITY SERVICES -- STAFF QUALIFICATIONS AND STAFFING RATIOS
388-148-0785 What is the proper ratio of staff to children in home or group care facilities offering maternity services?
MATERNITY SERVICES -- ROOM REQUIREMENTS
388-148-0790 Do you have room requirements for facilities offering maternity services?
388-148-0795 How is capacity determined for a maternity services facility?
DAY TREATMENT PROGRAMS -- PROGRAM AND SERVICES
388-148-0800 What is the purpose of day treatment programs?
DAY TREATMENT PROGRAMS -- STAFF QUALIFICATIONS AND STAFFING RATIOS
388-148-0805 What staff must my day treatment program have?
388-148-0810 What consultants must my day treatment program have?
388-148-0815 What is the ratio of counselor and teaching staff to children in a day treatment program?
GROUP CARE PROGRAMS FOR MEDICALLY FRAGILE CHILDREN AND CHILDREN WITH SEVERE DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES -- PROGRAM AND SERVICES
388-148-0820 What type of care is offered for medically fragile children and children with severe developmental disabilities?
388-148-0825 Who provides services for medically fragile children and children with severe developmental disabilities?
388-148-0830 What services must be provide for medically fragile children and children with severe developmental disabilities?
388-148-0835 Do I need to have a multidisciplinary care plan for medically fragile children and children with severe developmental disabilities?
388-148-0840 What must the multidisciplinary care plan for a medically fragile child or a child with severe developmental disabilities include?
388-148-0845 What are the requirements for nurses in programs who care for medically fragile children or children with severe developmental disabilities?
388-148-0850 When do I use a nurse?
GROUP CARE PROGRAMS FOR MEDICALLY FRAGILE CHILDREN OR CHILDREN WITH SEVERE DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES -- ROOM REQUIREMENTS
388-148-0855 Do I need to provide a therapy room for children with severe developmental disabilities?
388-148-0860 Are there room requirements for group care facilities for medically fragile children less than age six?
GROUP CARE PROGRAMS FOR MEDICALLY FRAGILE CHILDREN AND CHILDREN WITH SEVERE DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES -- FOOD AND MEALS
388-148-0865 What food requirements exist for medically fragile children and children with severe developmental disabilities?
GROUP CARE PROGRAMS FOR MEDICALLY FRAGILE CHILDREN AND CHILDREN WITH SEVERE DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES -- RECORD-KEEPING
388-148-0870 What additional record-keeping requirements exist for medically fragile children and children with severe developmental disabilities?
CRISIS RESIDENTIAL CENTERS -- PROGRAM/LEVELS OF SECURITY/PLACEMENT AND SERVICES
388-148-0875 What types of crisis residential centers may be licensed?
388-148-0880 What levels of secure CRCs exist?
388-148-0885 What are the requirements for a level-one secure CRC?
388-148-0890 What are the requirements for a level-two secure CRC?
388-148-0892 What are the requirements for a level three secure CRC?
388-148-0895 May a juvenile detention center operate as a separate secure CRC program?
388-148-0900 What youth may a CRC serve?
388-148-0905 Can law enforcement officers place youth in secure CRCs?
388-148-0910 What hours do CRCs have to be open?
388-148-0915 What steps must be taken after a youth is admitted into a CRC?
388-148-0920 What if a youth seems unlikely to remain in a regular CRC?
388-148-0925 What happens when no space exists at a secure CRC?
388-148-0930 How is a youth transferred from one type of CRC to another?
388-148-0940 What does a youth's orientation to a CRC need to include?
388-148-0945 What intervention services must be provided or arranged for by the CRC?
388-148-0950 What behavior management practices are required for a CRC?
CRISIS RESIDENTIAL CENTERS -- MULTIDISCIPLINARY TEAM
388-148-0955 What is the purpose of a multidisciplinary team in a CRC?
388-148-0960 When may a multidisciplinary team be requested?
388-148-0965 How is a multidisciplinary team convened?
388-148-0970 May a parent disband the multidisciplinary team?
CRISIS RESIDENTIAL CENTERS -- STAFF QUALIFICATIONS AND STAFFING RATIOS
388-148-0975 What qualifications must a crisis residential center executive director have?
388-148-0980 Do I need a program manager on-site at each facility?
388-148-0985 What qualifications must the on-site program manager for a crisis residential program have?
388-148-0990 What additional qualifications must the crisis residential center youth care staff have?
388-148-0995 What are the ratio requirements of youth care staff to youth in crisis residential centers?
CRISIS RESIDENTIAL CENTERS -- STAFF TRAINING
388-148-1000 What training must staff at a crisis residential center have?
CRISIS RESIDENTIAL CENTERS -- RECORD-KEEPING
388-148-1005 What record keeping is required for crisis residential centers?
388-148-1010 What additional record-keeping requirements exist for secure crisis residential centers?
STAFFED RESIDENTIAL HOMES -- PROGRAM AND SERVICES
388-148-1015 What is the purpose of a staffed residential home?
388-148-1025 What must be included in a written program description for a staffed residential home?
388-148-1030 What services must a staffed residential home provide?
STAFF RESIDENTIAL HOMES -- STAFF QUALIFICATIONS, STAFFING RATIOS, AND CAPACITY
388-148-1035 Who must be on the premises when children are under care at a staffed residential home?
388-148-1040 What are the qualifications for staff at a staffed residential home?
388-148-1045 What is the ratio of child care staff to children in staffed residential homes?
388-148-1050 How many children may I serve in my staffed residential home?
STAFFED RESIDENTIAL HOMES -- ROOM REQUIREMENTS
388-148-1055 Are there room requirements for staffed residential homes?
CHILD-PLACING AGENCIES -- PROGRAM AND SERVICES
388-148-1060 What services may a child-placing agency provide?
388-148-1066 What written information is needed before a child is accepted for care by a child-placing agency?
388-148-1070 What health histories need to be provided to foster or adoptive parents?
388-148-1075 When may child-placing agencies from outside the state place children in this state?
CHILD-PLACING AGENCY STAFF QUALIFICATIONS
388-148-1076 What are the qualifications for an executive director, a program manager/social service staff, and a consultant for a child-placing agency?
388-148-1077 What are the qualifications for a case aide for a child-placing agency program?
388-148-1078 What are the qualifications for health care staff hired or contracted by a child-placing agency to provide services to children in care?
388-148-1079 What are the qualifications or the foster home licensor for a child-placing agency?
CHILD-PLACING AGENCIES -- ROOM REQUIREMENTS
388-148-1080 Are child-placing agencies required to have office space?
CHILD-PLACING AGENCIES -- FOSTER CARE SERVICES
388-148-1085 How may my child-placing agency certify a foster home for licensing by the department?
388-148-1090 What children may child-placing agency foster homes accept?
388-148-1095 May different child-placing agencies share eligible foster parents for placement?
388-148-1100 What do I need to consider in making foster care placements?
388-148-1105 May I share information about the child with the foster parents?
388-148-1110 How often should the case manager contact the foster child and family?
CHILD-PLACING AGENCIES -- ADOPTION SERVICES
388-148-1115 What are the requirements for providing adoptive services?
388-148-1120 What is the process for adoptions?
388-148-1125 What requirements exist for specialized adoptive services?
CHILD-PLACING AGENCIES -- ADOPTION RECORDS
388-148-1130 Must my child-placing agency retain the records of adopted children?
388-148-1135 What happens to the adopted children's records if my agency closes?
GROUP CARE FACILITIES -- GROUP RECEIVING CENTERS PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS AND SERVICES
388-148-1205 What is a group receiving center?
388-148-1210 What age children may a center serve?
388-148-1215 What hours must a center be open?
388-148-1220 What services are provided or arranged for by a group receiving center?
388-148-1225 Is a center required to provide an orientation for a child placed?
388-148-1230 Does each child need space for personal items at the center?
GROUP RECEIVING CENTERS -- STAFF TRAINING
388-148-1235 What staff training is required?
GROUP CARE FACILITIES-GROUP RECEIVING CENTERS -- STAFFING RATIOS AND SUPERVISION
388-148-1240 What is the ratio of child care staff to children at a center?
388-148-1245 What are the requirements for supervision of children at a center?
388-148-1250 Who must be on the premises while children are in care at a center?
GROUP CARE FACILITY-GROUP RECEIVING CENTERS -- RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES, EQUIPMENT, AND SPACE
388-148-1255 What are the requirements for an activity program?
388-148-1260 What activities must I provide to children?
388-148-1265 What are the requirements for indoor recreation areas?
388-148-1270 What are the requirements for an outdoor recreation area?
388-148-1275 What are the size requirements for an outdoor recreation area?
388-148-1280 What are the requirements for playground equipment?