7.1 Types of Out-of-Home Care Providers:
- Child Care Home/Center
- Nursery School
- Residential Treatment Center
- Group Home
- Licensed/Unlicensed Foster Parents, Relatives and Kinship
- Division of Youth Services (DYS) Facility
- Juvenile Court Facility
- Department of Mental Health (DMH) Facility
- Public, Private and Parochial School
- Health Care Facility
NOTE: For the purposes of this section all licensed facilities, contractual facilities, exempt, and approved homes are considered out-of home.
OHI shall ensure that when an employee of a child care facility, child placing agency, residential care facility, public and private elementary or secondary schools, juvenile court or other state agency is named as a perpetrator, the facility or school shall be listed as a parent. This will assist county staff in locating substantiated reports in the CA/N system for inquiries on facilities.
Out-of-home investigations differ from investigations conducted in a family setting. The worker must be knowledgeable of characteristics, indicators and policies and practices which may contribute to abuse/neglect in an out-of-home setting.
NOTE: When conducting an investigation of child abuse/neglect in an out-of-home care setting, it is imperative that the worker carefully review the physical setting and the appropriate written policies and practices of the facility.