9 CAR § 31-104 – Residential types of licenses

(a) Emergency residential childcare facility.
1. (1) “Emergency residential childcare facility” means any child welfare agency that provides twenty-four-hour custodial care for six (6) or more unrelated children or a child victim of human trafficking on an emergency basis, not to exceed ninety (90) days.
2. (2) Any child admitted as an emergency placement shall be:
  1. (A) Designated as such; and
  2. (B) Discharged within ninety (90) days.
(b) Emergency family style care. “Emergency family style care” means any child welfare agency that provides twenty-four-hour custodial care in a homelike setting for six (6) or more unrelated children or a child victim of human trafficking on an emergency basis, not to exceed ninety (90) days.
(c) Residential childcare facility. “Residential childcare facility” means any child welfare agency that provides care, training, education, custody, or supervision on a twenty-four-hour basis for six (6) or more unrelated minors.
(d) Residential family style care. “Residential family style care” means any child welfare agency that provides care, training, education, custody, or supervision in a homelike setting on a twenty-four-hour basis for six (6) or more unrelated minors or a child victim of human trafficking.
(e) Psychiatric residential treatment facility.
1. (1) “Psychiatric residential treatment facility” means a residential childcare facility in a nonhospital setting that provides a structured, systematic, and therapeutic program of treatment under the supervision of a physician:
  1. (A) Licensed by the Arkansas State Medical Board; and
  2. (B) Experienced in the practice of psychiatry.
2. (2) It is for children who are emotionally disturbed and in need of daily nursing services, physician’s supervision, and residential care, but who are not in an acute phase of illness requiring the services of an inpatient psychiatric hospital.
(f) Sexual rehabilitative program.
1. (1) “Sexual rehabilitative program” means a treatment program that offers a specific and specialized therapeutic program for children with sexually maladaptive behaviors.
2. (2) A licensed sexual rehabilitative program may be in a:
  1. (A) Residential childcare facility;
  2. (B) Therapeutic foster care home; or
  3. (C) Psychiatric residential treatment facility.
3. (3) If a program is licensed as this type of setting and is operated in a psychiatric residential treatment facility, it must comply with the standards found in 9 CAR § 31-1001 et seq. and 9 CAR § 31-1101 et seq.
(g) Independent living. “Independent living” means a child welfare agency that provides specialized services in adult living preparation in an experiential setting for persons sixteen (16) years of age or older.
(h) Independent living family style care. “Independent living family style care” means a child welfare agency that provides specialized services in adult living preparation in an experiential homelike setting for persons sixteen (16) years of age or older.
(i) Transitional living. “Transitional living” means a child welfare agency that provides specialized adult living preparation services in a structured setting for persons eighteen (18) years of age or older who have been admitted into the agency’s residential program prior to eighteen (18) years of age.
(j) An agency may be licensed for any or all types of licenses, depending on the types of services it provides.