§ 3931 First 4 ME Early Care and Education Program

Terms Used In Maine Revised Statutes > Title 22 > Subtitle 3 > Part 3 > Chapter 1065 - First 4 Me Early Care and Education Program

  • At risk: means , with regard to a person, that the person is a member of an economically disadvantaged family, a recipient or former recipient of services under the child protection or child welfare system of the State, in foster care, homeless, a member of a family exposed to substance use disorder, identified as having special needs, identified as having a physical or mental disability or identified as having limited English proficiency. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 3931
  • Child: means a person under 6 years of age who has not entered kindergarten. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 3931
  • Community: means a geographical area represented by a community coalition and served or to be served by a project. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 3931
  • Community coach: means an employee of or contractor with a community contractor who is trained under subsection 11 and performs administrative functions in carrying out the duties of a project. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 3931
  • Community coalition: means a group of stakeholders, service providers or other members within a community under subsection 7 that sponsors and collaborates in the implementation and administration of a project. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 3931
  • Community contractor: means a nonprofit organization that is the applicant and responsible lead member of a community coalition for a project. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 3931
  • Community provider: means a child care center, family child care provider or other service provider that has entered into a contract with a community contractor to provide services as part of a project. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 3931
  • Economically disadvantaged: means having a family income not exceeding 185% of the federal poverty level as defined in section 3762, subsection 1, paragraph C. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 3931
  • Embedded professional development: means an activity performed by a community coach to encourage rule-specific knowledge, skills and dispositions to support responsive caregiving and developmentally appropriate teaching practices implemented for learning that is integrated into the work day, consists of assessing and finding solutions for authentic and immediate problems of practice as part of a cycle of continuous improvement and is grounded in day-to-day teaching practice designed to enhance a teacher's or caregiver's practices with the intent of improving children's social, emotional and cognitive development. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 3931
  • Enrollee: means an individual who is enrolled in a health maintenance organization. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 4202-A
  • Family: means a child, the child's parent and all people living in the household of the child who are supported by the income of the child's parent and related to the child or child's parent by blood, marriage or adoption. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 3931
  • Health maintenance organization: means a public or private organization that is organized under the laws of the Federal Government, this State, another state or the District of Columbia or a component of such an organization, and that:
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 4202-A
  • Home visitor: means a person who provides services to a participant in the participant's home. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 3931
  • Home visitor services: means interactions between a home visitor and a parent that on the part of the home visitor are nurturing, responsive and intentional and that support the parent in the parent's role as the primary teacher of the parent's child and assist the parent in using the parent's home and the community as the child's learning environment. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 3931
  • Infant: means a person who has not attained the age of 18 years. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72
  • Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
  • Parent: means the parent or parents of a child or the child's legal guardian, primary or authorized caregiver or foster parent or a person with whom the child has been placed for purposes of adoption pending a final adoption decree. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 3931
  • Participant: means an eligible child under subsection 5 who has been accepted to participate in a project. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 3931
  • Person: means an individual, firm, partnership, corporation, association, syndicate, organization, society, business trust, attorney-in-fact or any legal entity. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 4202-A
  • Program: means the First 4 ME Early Care and Education Program established under subsection 1. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 3931
  • Project: means the program as implemented in a community by a community contractor. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 3931
  • Provider: means a physician, hospital or person that is licensed or otherwise authorized in this State to furnish health care services. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 4202-A
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
  • Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
  • Testify: Answer questions in court.