Section 400.2001. Definitions.

Rule 1. As used in these rules:

(a)   "Aid to dependent children in foster care" means the funding source established by the adoption assistance and child welfare act of 1980, 42 U.S.C. S1305 et seq., to provide federal financial participation in the costs  of  foster  care   maintenance payments for children who would  be eligible for aid to dependent children if living in the parental home or with an acceptable relative.

(b)       "Annual child care fund ceiling" means the initial annual legislative appropriation of the state child care fund.

(c)   "County department" means the county department of social services created in each county by section 45 of Act No. 280 of the Public Acts of 1939, as amended, being S400.45 of the Michigan Compiled Laws.

(d)      "County department of social services subaccount" means the account authorized by the county board of commissioners for the expenditure  of child care funds by the county department.

(e)   "Court" means the juvenile division of the probate court.

(f)  "Department" means the Michigan department of social services.

(g)    "Direct service" means service provided to a specific client rather than to a general target group.

(h)   "In-home care option" means the expenditure of child care fund dollars for services which are determined by the office of children and youth services to be alternatives to out-of-home care or to provide an early return home for children placed out of the home.

(i)   "Intensive service" means that the worker-to-case load ratio is not more than 1 to 20 and that there is not less than an average of 1 face-to-face contact per week during the period a case  is open for service.

(j)   "Juvenile court subaccount" means the account  authorized  by  the county board of commissioners for the expenditure of child care funds by the juvenile court.

(k)    "Office" means the office of children and youth services of the Michigan department of social services.

(l)   "Own home" means the residence of the child's parent or parents, relative, or legal guardian where the child is found, from which the child was removed by the authority of the court, or in which the child will be placed on a permanent basis.

(m)      "Published policies and procedures" means those policies and procedures contained in the office publications entitled "The Child Care Fund Handbook," the "Annual Child Care Fund Plan and Budget Guidelines," and department   manual material.

(n)   "State ward charge-back" means the amount of dollars the state of Michigan bills a county for the cost of care for state wards.

History: 1987 AACS.