Mont. Admin. R. 37.75.101 - DEFINITIONS
For purposes of this chapter, the following definitions apply:
(1) "Active recruitment" means
direct contact, initiated by a day care home sponsor, with a provider that is
currently participating in the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) under
a current CACFP Sponsor/Provider Agreement, for the purpose of enticing the
provider to switch the provider's CACFP Sponsor/Provider Agreement to a
different sponsor. Examples of such direct contact considered to be active
recruitment include but are not limited to a contact made in person, by phone
call, through e-mail, by fax, and through a mailing or through a newsletter
that is invitational in content disseminated by a sponsor to one or more
providers that it does not sponsor.
(2) "Adult day care center" means an adult
day care center as defined in
7 CFR
226.2.
(3) "Advanced payment" means funds made
available to an institution for its CACFP costs prior to the month in which
such costs will be incurred.
(4)
"Adverse action" means an action taken by the state CACFP in the administration
of the CACFP having a negative impact on an institution.
(5) "Announced review" means an on site
review that occurs after forewarning.
(6) "Authorized capacity" means the number of
children that a licensed or approved child care center or registered day care
home is able to have in care at any one time including overlap.
(7) "CACFP" means the Child and Adult Care
Food Program as designated in section 17 of the National School Lunch Act as
amended (codified at
42 USC
1766 ).
(8) "Center" means a child care center, an
adult day care center, or an outside school hours care center. "Center" may
also mean an emergency shelter, special after school snacks center, Head Start
center, or proprietary center that enters into an agreement with the department
to administer the CACFP in a specific area for a specific period of
time.
(9) "Child care center" means
any public or private nonprofit organization, or any proprietary center,
licensed or approved to provide nonresidential child care services to enrolled
children, primarily of preschool age, including but not limited to day care
centers, settlement houses, neighborhood centers, Head Start centers, and
organizations providing day care services for children with disabilities. Child
care centers may participate in the CACFP as independent centers or under the
auspices of a sponsor.
(10)
"Combination food" means an entree with more than one CACFP required food
component included in its ingredients.
(11) "Corrective action plan" means a plan
indicating the actions to be taken by an institution or provider entity for the
purpose of correcting a deficiency or addressing a problem.
(12) "Day care home" or "DCH" means a family
or group day care home as those terms are defined in
52-2-703,
MCA, and is an organized nonresidential child care program for children
enrolled in a private home registered or approved as a family or group day care
home, and participating in the CACFP through a sponsor.
(13) "Department" means the Department of
Public Health and Human Services.
(14) "Elementary school" means any school
serving children in grades K through 8.
(15) "Emergency shelter" means a public or
private nonprofit organization whose primary purpose is to provide temporary
shelter and food services to homeless families with children.
(16) "Institution" means a sponsor or child
care center which enters into an agreement with the department to assume final
administrative and financial responsibility for CACFP operations.
(17) "Licensing staff" means department
personnel who enforce state laws and rules for the purpose of registering,
licensing, and regulation of child care.
(18) "Outside school hours care center" has
the meaning cited in
7 CFR
226.2.
(19) "Processed meats", for purposes of the
CACFP, means hot dogs, salami, sausage, and food of this type, but does not
include ground meats such as hamburger or cured meat such as ham.
(20) "Program" means the Child and Adult Care
Food Program.
(21) "Proprietary
center" means a qualifying child care center participating in the CACFP as a
for-profit center that is:
(a) a proprietary
Title XIX or Title XX center with at least 25% of enrolled or authorized
capacity, whichever is less, that is paid from a state pooled funding source
which includes federal Title XX funds; or
(b) a free and reduced price center with at
least 25% of its enrollment or authorized capacity, whichever is less, that is
in the free and reduced price reimbursement category.
(22) "Provider" means a person providing care
in a family or group day care home.
(23) "School attendance area" means the
specific geographical area whose student population is served by a specific
elementary school.
(24) "Seriously
deficient" means the status of an institution, center, or a day care home that
has been determined to be seriously noncompliant in one or more aspects of its
operation of the CACFP.
(25)
"Sponsor" means an organization under contract with the department that assumes
final administrative and financial responsibility for CACFP operations for
facilities under its jurisdiction and meets the definition of sponsoring
organization in
7 CFR
226.2, the federal definitions pertaining to
CACFP.
(26) "Tiering" means
categorizing the reimbursement rate for day care homes based on school
designation, census block numbering area, and established criteria for income
standards.
(27) "Title XIX" means
Title XIX of the Federal Social Security Act.
(28) "Title XX" means Title XX of the Federal
Social Security Act.
(29) "USDA"
means the United States Department of Agriculture.
Notes
52-2-704, MCA; IMP, 52-2-702, 52-2-704, MCA;
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