"Comprehensive residential facility" means a
facility which provides care and treatment for children who are unable to live
in a family situation due to social, emotional, or physical disabilities and
who require varying degrees of supervision as indicated in the individual
service plan. Care includes room and board. Services include the internal
capacity for individual, family, and group treatment. These services and others
provided to the child shall be under the administrative control of the
facility. Community resources may be used for medical, recreational, and
educational needs. Comprehensive residential facilities have higher staff to
client ratios than community residential facilities and may use control rooms,
locked cottages, and mechanical restraints when these controls meet licensing
requirements.
"Locked cottage" means an occupied
comprehensive residential facility or an occupied unit of a comprehensive
residential facility which is physically restrictive because of the continual
locking of doors to prevent the children in care from leaving the
facility.
"Nonsecure facility" means any facility
which does not meet the definition of a secure facility.
"Secure facility" means any comprehensive
residential facility which employs, on a regular basis, locked doors or other
building characteristics intended to prevent children in care from leaving the
facility without authorization. Secure facilities may only be used for children
who have been adjudicated delinquent or placed pursuant to provisions of Iowa
Code chapter 229.
This rule is intended to implement Iowa Code chapter
237.
Notes
Iowa Admin. Code
r. 441-115.2
Amended by
IAB
December 4, 2019/Volume XLII, Number 12, effective
1/8/2020
