Agency 30, Article 47 — Foster Care Licensing

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Department for Children and Families Article 47.—Foster Care Licensing 30-47-104. Terms of temporary permit or license. (a) Temporary permit or license required. No person shall operate a center unless the person has been issued a temporar…

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Department for Children and Families Article 47.—Foster Care Licensing 30-47-105. Background checks. (a) With each initial application or renewal application, each applicant or licensee shall submit a request to conduct a background check …

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Department for Children and Families Article 47.—Foster Care Licensing 30-47-106. Operations. (a) Each permittee and each licensee shall be responsible for the operation of the juvenile crisis intervention center, including the following: …

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Department for Children and Families Article 47.—Foster Care Licensing 30-47-107. Environmental requirements. (a) General building requirements. (1) Each applicant, each permittee, and each licensee shall ensure that the center is connecte…

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Department for Children and Families Article 47.—Foster Care Licensing 30-47-108. Personnel qualifications. (a) Each individual working or volunteering in a juvenile crisis intervention center shall be qualified by the temperament, emotion…

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Department for Children and Families Article 47.—Foster Care Licensing 30-47-109. Professional development; training. (a) Each staff member shall complete at least 10 clock-hours of orientation training within seven calendar days after the…

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Department for Children and Families Article 47.—Foster Care Licensing 30-47-110. Scheduling and direct supervision. (a) Each permittee and each licensee shall develop and implement a written schedule for professional staff members and sha…

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Department for Children and Families Article 47.—Foster Care Licensing 30-47-111. Emergency plan; safety; security. (a) Emergency plan. Each permittee and each licensee shall implement an emergency plan to provide for the safety of juvenil…

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Department for Children and Families Article 47.—Foster Care Licensing 30-47-112. Admission policies. (a) A juvenile shall be admitted if all of the following conditions are met: (1) The clinical director determines that the juvenile is in…

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Department for Children and Families Article 47.—Foster Care Licensing 30-47-113. Rights of juveniles. The rights of juveniles while in the permittee's or licensee's care or control shall not be diminished or denied for disciplinary reason…

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Department for Children and Families Article 47.—Foster Care Licensing 30-47-114. Release policies. (a) Within seven days before the release of a juvenile from the center, the administrative director shall give written notice of the date a…

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Department for Children and Families Article 47.—Foster Care Licensing 30-47-115. Case management. (a) Each permittee and each licensee shall ensure that case management is provided for each juvenile. Each permittee and each licensee shall…

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Department for Children and Families Article 47.—Foster Care Licensing 30-47-116. Program. (a) General requirements. (1) Each permittee and each licensee shall keep documentation of each juvenile's preadmission evaluation in the juvenile's…

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Department for Children and Families Article 47.—Foster Care Licensing 30-47-117. Health care. (a) Policies and procedures for juvenile health care. Each permittee and each licensee, in consultation with a licensed physician, shall impleme…

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Department for Children and Families Article 47.—Foster Care Licensing 30-47-118. Behavior management. (a) Each applicant, each permittee, and each licensee shall establish and implement written policies providing for a behavior management…

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Department for Children and Families Article 47.—Foster Care Licensing 30-47-119. Restraint. (a) Each applicant, each permittee, and each licensee shall establish and implement written policies and procedures that govern the use of restrai…

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Department for Children and Families Article 47.—Foster Care Licensing 30-47-120. Isolation. (a) Isolation shall not be permitted within a juvenile crisis intervention center. (Authorized by K.S.A. 65-536, 75-3084, and 75-3085; implementin…

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Department for Children and Families Article 47.—Foster Care Licensing 30-47-121. Records. (a) Recordkeeping system. Each applicant, each permittee, and each licensee shall ensure that there is an organized recordkeeping system for the cen…

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Department for Children and Families Article 47.—Foster Care Licensing 30-47-122. Notification and reporting requirements. (a)(1) Each permittee and each licensee shall ensure that notification of each of the following is submitted within …

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Department for Children and Families Article 47.—Foster Care Licensing 30-47-123. Laundry; bedding. (a) If laundry is done at the center, each permittee and each licensee shall ensure that the laundry sinks, the appliances, and the counter…

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Department for Children and Families Article 47.—Foster Care Licensing 30-47-124. Food services. Each permittee and each licensee shall ensure that food preparation, service, and safety meet the requirements of this regulation. For purpose…

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Department for Children and Families Article 47.—Foster Care Licensing 30-47-125. Nutrition. (a) The meals and snacks served at each center shall meet the nutritional needs of the juveniles. The meals and snacks shall include a variety of …

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Department for Children and Families Article 47.—Foster Care Licensing 30-47-126. Transportation. Each permittee and each licensee shall ensure that all of the following requirements are met when providing transportation for juveniles: (a)…

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Department for Children and Families Article 47.—Foster Care Licensing 30-47-127. Animals. Each permittee and each licensee shall ensure that the following requirements are met for any animals on the center premises: (a) If any animals are…

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Department for Children and Families Article 47.—Foster Care Licensing 30-47-312. Online information dissemination system. This regulation shall apply to the department's online information dissemination system for attendant care facilitie…

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Department for Children and Families Article 47.—Foster Care Licensing 30-47-800. Definitions. For the purposes of this section, the following definitions shall apply: (a) "Applicant" means a person or persons who have applied for a licens…

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Department for Children and Families Article 47.—Foster Care Licensing 30-47-801. License required. (a) An individual shall obtain a license to operate a family foster home if providing 24-hour care to one or more children under 16 years o…

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Department for Children and Families Article 47.—Foster Care Licensing 30-47-802. License requirements. Each individual shall meet the following requirements to obtain a license and to maintain a license: (a) Submit a complete application …

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Department for Children and Families Article 47.—Foster Care Licensing 30-47-803. Licensing procedure. The granting of a license to any applicant may be refused by the secretary if the applicant is not in compliance with the requirements o…

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Department for Children and Families Article 47.—Foster Care Licensing 30-47-804. Terms of license; validity of temporary permit or license; renewal license; amendments; exceptions; withdrawal of application or request to close. (a) Terms …

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Department for Children and Families Article 47.—Foster Care Licensing 30-47-805. Background checks. (a) With each initial application, the applicant shall submit documentation for each individual at least 18 years of age or older to reque…

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Department for Children and Families Article 47.—Foster Care Licensing 30-47-806. Training. (a) Prelicensure training. Before a license is issued, each applicant shall successfully complete the following: (1) An instructor-led family foste…

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Department for Children and Families Article 47.—Foster Care Licensing 30-47-807. Reporting requirements for infectious or contagious disease; positive tuberculin test; critical incidents; abuse and neglect. (a) Reporting infectious or con…

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Department for Children and Families Article 47.—Foster Care Licensing 30-47-808. Recordkeeping requirements; confidentiality. Each licensee shall ensure that all records pertaining to the licensure and operation of the family foster home,…

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Department for Children and Families Article 47.—Foster Care Licensing 30-47-809. Basic record information; other required record information; departure requirements. (a) Basic record information. Any licensee may accept a child in foster …

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Department for Children and Families Article 47.—Foster Care Licensing 30-47-810. Case plan. (a) Each licensee shall be an active participant on the case planning team with each child's child-placing agent, the sponsoring child-placement a…

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Department for Children and Families Article 47.—Foster Care Licensing 30-47-811. Caregiver qualifications; supervision. (a) Caregiver qualifications. Each caregiver shall be qualified by the capacity for setting age- or developmentally-ap…

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Department for Children and Families Article 47.—Foster Care Licensing 30-47-813. Reasonable and prudent parent standard. (a) Social development. Each licensee shall provide for the growth and development of each child in foster care by pr…

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Department for Children and Families Article 47.—Foster Care Licensing 30-47-815. Behavior management practices; prohibited punishment; physical restraint; notification requirements. (a) Behavior management practices. (1) Each licensee sha…

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Department for Children and Families Article 47.—Foster Care Licensing 30-47-816. Transportation. Each licensee shall ensure that all of the following requirements are met: (a) If a vehicle used for transportation of a child in foster care…

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Department for Children and Families Article 47.—Foster Care Licensing 30-47-817. Nutrition; food handling and storage. (a) Each licensee shall ensure that for each child in foster care, both of the following requirements are met: (1) Each…

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Department for Children and Families Article 47.—Foster Care Licensing 30-47-818. Storage and administration of medication. (a) Storage of medication. Each licensee shall ensure that all prescription and nonprescription medication is store…

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Department for Children and Families Article 47.—Foster Care Licensing 30-47-819. Health care. (a) Infectious or contagious disease. Each individual residing in the family foster home shall be free from any infectious or contagious disease…

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Department for Children and Families Article 47.—Foster Care Licensing 30-47-820. General environmental requirements. Each licensee shall ensure that all of the requirements in this regulation are met. (a) Local requirements. Each family f…

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Department for Children and Families Article 47.—Foster Care Licensing 30-47-821. Sleeping arrangements. (a) Each licensee shall ensure that sufficient space for sleeping is provided to accommodate all residents of the family foster home a…

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Department for Children and Families Article 47.—Foster Care Licensing 30-47-822. Safety procedures; emergency plan; drills. (a) Each licensee shall make the following preparations for emergencies: (1) Each licensee shall ensure that the f…

Kansas Administrative Regulations Kansas Department for Children and Families Article 47.—Foster Care Licensing 30-47-823. Outside premises. Each licensee shall ensure that all of the following requirements are met: (a) General safety. The outside premises of the home shall be fr…