The following definitions apply to foster care rate assessments (FCRA):
"Behavior rehabilitation services (BRS)" means short-term intensive wraparound support and therapeutic programs offered in an array of settings for children and youth with high level service needs used to:
(a) Safely stabilize them;
(b) Coordinate multiple systems; and
(c) Safely move them to permanency or less intensive services.
"Child placing agencies (CPAs)" means agencies or tribes licensed to place children for foster care or adoption and may be contracted by the department to provide professional therapeutic foster care (PTFC) services.
"Department" means the Washington state department of children, youth, and families.
"Foster care" means the placement of children or youth by the department or licensed child placing agencies in homes or facilities licensed or certified as outlined in chapter 74.15 RCW or in homes or facilities that are not required to be licensed as outlined in chapter 74.15 RCW.
"Foster homes" or "foster parents" means individuals licensed through chapter 110-148 WAC to regularly provide 24-hour care in their home to children or youth.
"Licensed health care provider" means medical doctors, doctors of osteopathy, doctors of naturopathy, physician's assistants, or advanced registered nurse practitioners.
"Licensing division (LD)" means the division in the department that supports child safety and well-being through licensing, monitoring, compliance, investigations, and technical assistance to individuals and agencies that provide direct care for children and youth outside the care of their parents or guardians.
"Relatives" means the same as defined in RCW 13.36.020(5), described in RCW 74.15.020(2) and 11.130.010(32), or caregivers of Indian children or youth who are defined by tribal code or custom as relatives or extended family.
"Suitable persons" means nonrelatives with whom the child or youth, or the child's or youth's family, has a preexisting relationship; who has completed all required criminal history background checks and otherwise appears to be suitable and competent to provide care for the child or youth, and with whom they have been placed, per RCW 13.34.130.
[Statutory Authority: RCW 74.13.031. WSR 26-13-016, s 110-50-0420, filed 6/5/26, effective 7/6/26. Statutory Authority: RCW 34.05.220, 43.216.020, and 43.216.065. WSR 24-18-052, § 110-50-0420, filed 8/28/24, effective 9/28/24. Statutory Authority: RCW 43.216.065 and 74.13.031. WSR 23-24-040, § 110-50-0420, filed 11/30/23, effective 12/31/23. WSR 18-14-078, recodified as § 110-50-0420, filed 6/29/18, effective 7/1/18. Statutory Authority: RCW 74.13.031. WSR 01-08-047, § 388-25-0005, filed 3/30/01, effective 4/30/01.]