Residential care facilities provide a more intensive setting than treatment foster care. Residential care facilities in Idaho are licensed under IDAPA 16.06.02, "Child Care Licensing" to provide residential care for children and staffed by employees who cover assigned shifts. Children placed in residential care facilities receive services that may include the following: assessment, supervision, treatment plan development and implementation, documentation, behaviorally focused skill building, service coordination or clinical case management, consultation, psychotherapy, psychiatric care, and twenty-four (24) hour crisis intervention. Placement into a residential care facility for children eligible for services under Section 107 of these rules is based on the documented needs of the child and the inability of less restrictive settings to meet the child's needs.
Idaho Admin. Code r. 16.07.37.700