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<section article="gfl" article_name="Family Law" number="5-501" title_number="5" title_name="Children" subtitle_number="5" subtitle_name="Child Care; Foster Care">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this subtitle the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>“Administration” means:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>the Social Services Administration of the Department; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>any other unit within the Department to which the Secretary of Human Services has delegated in writing specified responsibilities of the Administration under this subtitle.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>“Foster care” means continuous 24–hour care and supportive services provided for a minor child placed by a child placement agency in an approved family home.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>“Group care” means continuous 24–hour care and supportive services provided for a minor child placed in a licensed group facility.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>“Kinship care” means continuous 24–hour care and supportive services provided for a minor child placed by a child placement agency in the home of a kinship parent or kinship caregiver, as those terms are defined in § 5–534 of this subtitle.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“License” means a license issued by the Administration under this subtitle.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“License” includes:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>a child placement agency license;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>a child care institution license; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>a residential educational facility license.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <text>“Local board” means a local citizen board of review for children in out–of–home care.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="h">
    <text>“Out–of–home care” means:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>out–of–home placement; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>the monitoring of and services provided to a child in aftercare following a child’s out–of–home placement.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="i">
    <text>“Out–of–home placement” means placement of a child into foster care, kinship care, group care, or residential treatment care.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="j">
    <text>“Residential educational facility” means:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>a facility that:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>provides special education and related services for students with disabilities;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>holds a certificate of approval issued by the State Board of Education; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>provides continuous 24–hour care and supportive services to children in a residential setting; or</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>one of the following schools:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>the Benedictine School;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>the Linwood School;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>the Maryland School for the Blind; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>the Maryland School for the Deaf.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="k">
    <text>“Residential treatment care” means continuous 24–hour care and supportive services for a minor child placed in a facility that provides formal programs of basic care, social work, and health care services.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="l">
    <text>“State Board” means the State Citizens Review Board for Children.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="m">
    <text>“Voluntary placement agreement” means a binding, written agreement that:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>is voluntarily entered into between a local department and:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>the parent or legal guardian of a minor child; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>a former CINA whose commitment to the local department was rescinded after the individual reached the age of 18 years but before the individual reached the age of 20 years and 6 months; and</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>specifies, at a minimum:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>the legal status of the child or former CINA; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>the rights and obligations of the parent or legal guardian, the child or former CINA, and the local department while the child or former CINA is in placement.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
