As used in this chapter:
1.“Agency” means a person that does not meet the definition of an individual or a kinship
caregiver.
2.“Agency licensee” means an agency issued a license under this chapter.
3.“Approval” means the authorization granted to a kinship caregiver by the department
through an expedited process under this chapter to provide child foster care, and allows the
kinship caregiver to receive maximum financial support and to obtain the information and
resources necessary to meet the needs of a child under a court-ordered placement with the
kinship caregiver.
4.“Approved kinship caregiver” means a kinship caregiver granted approval under this
chapter.
5.“Child” means the same as defined in section 234.1.
6.“Child foster care” means the provision of parental nurturing, inclu
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As used in this chapter:
1. “Agency” means a person that does not meet the definition of an individual or a kinship
caregiver.
2. “Agency licensee” means an agency issued a license under this chapter.
3. “Approval” means the authorization granted to a kinship caregiver by the department
through an expedited process under this chapter to provide child foster care, and allows the
kinship caregiver to receive maximum financial support and to obtain the information and
resources necessary to meet the needs of a child under a court-ordered placement with the
kinship caregiver.
4. “Approved kinship caregiver” means a kinship caregiver granted approval under this
chapter.
5. “Child” means the same as defined in section 234.1.
6. “Child foster care” means the provision of parental nurturing, including but not limited
to the furnishing of food, lodging, training, education, supervision, treatment, or other care,
to a child on a full-time basis by a person, including a relative or fictive kin of the child if
the relative or fictive kin is an individual licensee or an approved kinship caregiver, but not
including a guardian of the child. “Child foster care” does not include any of the following
care situations:
a. Care furnished by an individual who receives the child of a personal friend as an
occasional and personal guest in the individual’s home, free of charge and not as a business.
b. Care furnished by an individual with whom a child has been placed for lawful adoption,
unless that adoption is not completed within two years after placement.
c. Care furnished by a private boarding school subject to approval by the state board of
education pursuant to section 256.11.
d. Child care furnished by a child care center, a child development home, or a child care
home as those terms are defined in section 237A.1.
e. Care furnished in a hospital licensed under chapter 135B or care furnished in a nursing
facility licensed under chapter 135C.
f. Care furnished by a relative or fictive kin of a child when the child is not under the
placement, care, or supervision of the department.
7. “Department” means the department of health and human services.
8. “Director” means the director of health and human services.
9. “Facility” means the personnel, program, physical plant, and equipment of a licensee
or approved kinship caregiver. “Facility” includes a foster family home.
10. “Fictive kin” means the same as defined in section 232.2.
11. “Foster family home” means a single-family home environment in which child foster
care is provided.
12. “Individual” means a natural person or a married couple.
13. “Individual licensee” means an individual, including an individual who is a relative or
fictive kin, issued a license under this chapter.
14. “Kinship caregiver” means a relative or fictive kin of a child.
15. “License” means the authorization issued to an individual or an agency by the
department under this chapter to provide child foster care.
16. “Licensee” means an individual or an agency licensed under this chapter.
17. “Protective locked environment” means a setting that prevents egress from a building
or grounds as a protective measure to ensure safety and security.
18. “Reasonable and prudent parent standard” means the standard characterized by
careful and sensible parenting decisions that maintain the health, safety, and best interests
of a child, while at the same time encouraging the emotional and developmental growth of a
child, thatacaretakershallusewhendeterminingwhethertoallowachildinchildfostercare
under the placement, care, or supervision of the department to participate in extracurricular,
enrichment, cultural, or social activities. For the purposes of this subsection, “caretaker”
means a licensee with which a child in child foster care has been placed, an approved kinship
caregiver with whom a child in child foster care has been placed, or a juvenile shelter care
home approved under chapter 232 in which a child in child foster care has been placed.
19. “Relative” means an individual related to a child within the fourth degree of
consanguinity or affinity by marriage or through adoption.