Agencies and Facilities

“Child placement agency” or “agency” means a corporation, partnership, association, firm, agency, institution, or person unrelated to the child being placed, who places, facilitates placement for a fee, or arranges for placement for care of a child u...

A “day treatment center” is a facility which provides less than twenty-four (24) hour care for groups of five or more children from three (3) to twenty-one (21) years of age.

"Homeless youth shelter” means a facility that, in addition to other services it may provide, provides services and mass temporary shelter for a period of three days or more to youths who are at least eleven years of age or older and who otherwise are h...

Private domestic adoption is the process through which a child born in the United States is voluntarily placed for adoption by their birth/biological parent(s). Most often, the adoptive family with whom the child is placed is selected with care and intention...

Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facilities (PRTFs) are licensed facilities that provide psychiatric and stabilazation services to individuals under age eighteen years

Qualified residential treatment program” means a licensed and accredited program that has a trauma-informed treatment model that is designed to address the child’s or youth’s needs, including clinical needs, as appropriate, of children and youth with ...

These facilities are licensed by the Department to provide twenty-four hour group care and treatment for five or more children operated under private, public, or nonprofit sponsorship.

“Respite Child Care Center” means a facility for the purpose of providing temporary twenty-four-hour group care for three or more children or youth who are placed in certified foster care homes or approved non-certified kinship care homes, and children or ...

“Secure Residential Treatment Center” means a facility operated under private ownership that is licensed by the Department to provide twenty-four-hour group care and treatment in a secure setting for five or more children or persons up to the age of ...

Shelter Care programs are licensed Residential Child Care Facilities (RCCF’s) that are approved to provide the basic services of shelter, food, education, etc in a physically unrestricting facility pending placement of a child in a longer term or permanent l...

The “Specialized Group Facility” (SGF) is sponsored and supervised by a county department of social/human services or a licensed child placement agency for the purpose of providing 24 hour care for three (3) or more children, but fewer than 12 children fro...