7 AAC 67.170 - General records and reports

(a) A licensee has an ongoing duty to keep current, with the department's licensing specialist, the information submitted with the licensee's most recent application for licensure by immediately providing any update of information, including

(1) the addition of a new household member, employee, contractor, or volunteer who might have unsupervised contact with a child in care;

(2) application by a member of the household to become an in-home child care provider, an adult assisted living home provider, or an in-home adult day care provider at the premises licensed as a foster home;

(3) change in the household composition, including

(A) hirth, adoption, marriage, or divorce;

(B) incapacity, or serious physical or mental illness, of a licensee or member of the household;

(C) the death of anyone in the household; or

(D) a change in who resides in the licensed foster home;

(4) licensee change of name;

(5) intent to relocate the foster home under 7 AAC 67.041;

(6) change of telephone number; and

(7) a change in the specialization under this chapter.

(b) A licensee shall report the following information to the department's licensing specialist no later than the first business day known:

(1) when another agency or tribe requests to place a child in the licensee's home;

(2) when the licensee agrees to provide respite care for another licensee.

(c) A licensee shall report the following to the child's caseworker no later than the first business day known:

(1) pregnancy of a child in care;

(2) severe distress, depression, or significant changes in the behavior of a child in care;

(3) nonemergency medical care requiring consent from the child's parent; in this paragraph, "nonemergency medical care" includes surgery, anesthesia, and the administration of psychotropic medication, or another drug prescribed for mental illness or behavioral problems;

(4) violation of a condition of probation by a child in care, if applicable;

(5) allegations of criminal conduct by a child in care;

(6) property damage caused by a child in care.

(d) If a child's caseworker is not available, the licensee shall

(1) give a report required in (b) of this section to the department by contacting the licensing specialist's supervisor; and

(2) give a report required in (c) of this section to the department by contacting the caseworker's supervisor.

Notes

7 AAC 67.170

Eff. 7/1/2022, Register 242, July 2022

Authority:AS 44.30.020

AS 47.14.120

AS 47.32.010

AS 47.32.020

AS 47.32.030

AS 47.32.110

AS 47.32.180

AS 47.32.190