Terms Used In California Codes > Welfare and Institutions Code > Division 9 > Part 6 > Chapter 6.3 - Intensive Services Foster Care

• Client support staff: means professional and paraprofessional staff or contractors who meet the experience and education requirements of paragraphs (2), (3), and (4) of subdivision (c) of Section 18360. See California Welfare and Institutions Code 18360
• County: includes "city and county. See California Welfare and Institutions Code 14
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Eligible child: means a child or nonminor dependent in foster care who has intensive needs, including, but not limited to, medical, therapeutic, or behavioral needs. See California Welfare and Institutions Code 18360
• Intensive services foster care: means a licensed foster family agency model or public delivery model of home-based family care for eligible children whose needs for safety, permanency, and well-being require specially trained resource parents and intensive professional and paraprofessional services and support in order to remain in a home-based setting, or to avoid or exit congregate care in a short-term residential therapeutic program, group home, or out-of-state residential center. See California Welfare and Institutions Code 18360
• Intensive services foster care resource family: means a resource family, as defined in Section 16519. See California Welfare and Institutions Code 18360
• Intensive services foster care resource parent: means a foster parent of an intensive services foster care resource family. See California Welfare and Institutions Code 18360
• Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). ^{Source: OCC}
• Licensed foster family agency model: means an intensive services foster care program operated by a private nonprofit agency or a county that is licensed as a foster family agency. See California Welfare and Institutions Code 18360
• Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
• Public delivery model: means an intensive services foster care program directly operated by a county as a governmental program. See California Welfare and Institutions Code 18360
• Urgent placement needs: means immediate and extenuating circumstances requiring immediate placement with an intensive services foster care resource parent, as determined by the county placing agency based on the level of care rate protocol. See California Welfare and Institutions Code 18360