Iowa Admin. Code r. 441-203.1
"Certified adoption investigator" means a person as defined in Iowa Code chapter 600 and certified by the department under 441-Chapter 107.
"Child-placing agency" means an agency as defined in Iowa Code chapter 238 and licensed under 441-Chapter 108.
"Children with special needs" means children as defined in 441-subrule 201.3(1).
"Department" means the Iowa department of human services.
"Exchange" means the Iowa adoption exchange system.
"Iowa adoption exchange system" is a computerized system established to facilitate the adoptive placement of children by matching children legally available for adoption and approved families desiring to adopt a child with special needs or a sibling group and referring the families to the child's adoption worker.
"Prospective adoptive family" means a family residing in Iowa approved to provide an adoptive home for a child.
"Recruitment, retention, training and support (RRTS) contract" means the state's contractor(s) responsible for activities related to licensing foster families and approving adoptive families, providing support services to foster and preadoptive families, conducting preservice and in-service training, and providing assistance in matching children in need of foster home care.
Iowa Admin. Code r. 441-203.1