Title 7 . Health and Social Services

Chapter 53 . (Reserved)

Section 999. Definitions and general provisions

7 AAC 53.999. Definitions and general provisions

(a) The definitions in 7 AAC 50.990 apply to 7 AAC 53.901 - 7 AAC 53.999, except that the definitions in (b) of this section control if an inconsistency exists.

(b) For the purposes of 7 AAC 53.901 - 7 AAC 53.999

(1) "cost-of-living allowance" means a percentage change in cost per bed, as set by the annual state operating budget request instructions prepared by the office of management and budget in the office of the Governor;

(2) "commissioner" means the commissioner of the Department of Health and Social Services;

(3) "credit" means an entry on the right-hand side of an account to show in addition to a revenue, net worth, or liability account;

(4) "day treatment" means an intensive program of rehabilitative activities, conducted in a structured, supervised manner, serving adolescents with behavioral and emotional problems and the natural families or foster families of those adolescents; "day treatment" includes an individual service plan for each adolescent, and

(A) training and counseling in basic living skills, interpersonal skills, and problem-solving skills;

(B) academic and physical education;

(C) recreation; and

(D) counseling for the adolescent and the adolescent's foster family and natural family, aimed at alleviating the behavioral or emotional problems of the adolescent;

(5) "debit" means an entry on the left-hand side of an account to show an addition to an expense or asset account or a deduction from a revenue, net worth, or liability account;

(6) "department" means the Department of Health and Social Services;

(7) "emergency shelter care" means temporary residential child care for children that are in immediate danger in their present environment, and for children for whom the department can find no other care for a short period of time;

(8) "general and administrative costs" means costs that are incurred for common or joint objectives, and are not readily subject to treatment as a direct cost;

(9) "intensive residential treatment program" means residential child care for children with severe emotional or behavioral disorders that cause them to be a danger to themselves or others, provided on a 24-hour-a-day basis, in a highly structured, secure program designed to meet the needs of children that

(A) have attempted or threatened suicide;

(B) have committed or attempted assault or other offenses against persons;

(C) have repeatedly committed or attempted property offenses;

(D) have repeatedly run away; or

(E) have engaged in a combination of these behaviors;

(10) "placement of a child" means securing admission of a child to a facility;

(11) "project" means

(A) an activity of a grantee or proponent that requires expenditure of money or use of assets, and that is governed by the terms of a single grant, contract, trust agreement, or endowment; or

(B) an activity such as lobbying or fund-raising that is administered by the grantee or proponent, and that is not a service that directly supports child care activities;

(12) "proponent" means a nonprofit organization or a municipal agency that submits a residential child care facility grant proposal;

(13) "related organization" means an organization that is operated, supervised, or controlled by, or in connection with, a grantee; an organization is considered a related organization if

(A) more than 40 percent of the organization's trustees or directors are directors or employees of the grantee or are related within the second degree of consanguinity or affinity to directors or employees of the grantee; or

(B) the grantee is paying the organization

(i) installment payments or rent for an asset that the grantee owned in the past; or

(ii) interest on a loan that the grantee used to repurchase an asset that the grantee owned in the past;

(14) "related party" means

(A) a person in a fiduciary relationship to the grantee or to a related organization, and includes a director, trustee, or officer of the grantee or related organization; or

(B) a person related within the second degree of consanguinity or affinity to a person in a fiduciary relationship to the grantee or to a related organization;

(15) "residential child care facility grant" or "grant" means a grant described in 7 AAC 53.901 - 7 AAC 53.999;

(16) "residential child care facility grantee" or "grantee" means a proponent that receives a grant under 7 AAC 53.901 - 7 AAC 53.999; and

(17) "specialized residential care" means residential child care for children with moderate to serious emotional and behavioral problems, provided on a 24-hour-a-day basis, in a highly structured integrated program of specialized treatment designed to meet the special needs of those children.

(c) If a provision of 7 AAC 53.901 - 7 AAC 53.999 conflicts with 7 AAC 78, the provisions in 7 AAC 53.901 - 7 AAC 53.999 controls for the purposes of governing residential child care facility grants. 7 AAC 78.160 does not apply to residential child care facility grants.

History: Eff. 1/13/85, Register 93; am 6/14/85, Register 95

Authority: AS 47.05.010

AS 47.14.010

AS 47.40.011

AS 47.40.041

Editor's note: More definitions relevant to 7 AAC 53.901 - 7 AAC 53.999 may also be found at AS 47.40.091 .