C.M.R. 10, 148, ch. 1, 148-1-I, subsec. 148-1-I-D
The following is a list of those terms most Commonly used in this manual which have a special meaning when used in reference to the Child and Adult Care Food Program.- (Those terms defined in 7 CFR Part 226, § 226.2, Rules and Regulations for Administering the U.S.D.A. Child and Adult Care Food Program, are identified for continuity.)
"Act": See 7 CFR Part 226.
"Administrative Costs": See 7 CFR Part 226.
"Adult": See 7 CFR Part 226.
"Adult Day Care Center": See 7 CFR Part 226.
*Adult Day Care Facility": See 7 CFR Part 226.
"Adult Participation": See 7 CFR Part 226.
"Advanced Payment": See 7 CFR Part 226.
"AFDC Assistance Unit": See 7 CFR Part 226.
"Assessment": For participants in Adult Day Care Centers means a description of the individual participant's strengths and needs based on information obtained from the participant and/or his/her family members, caregivers, physician, etc. The assessment shall include information such as a health profile.. the Individual's mental and emotional status.. daily living skills, support services available to the individual,, possible need for services from other service providers.. and a current medical examination.
"Authorized Capacity" means the number of individuals a facility is licensed/ registered to serve at any one time, plus any other C.A.C.F.P. enrolled individuals who are not required to be counted as part of the Licensed/Registered capacity. (Also see "Licensed Capacity" and "Registered Capacity")
"Average Daily Attendance": means the total number of enrolled participants in attendance each day 'of the reporting period divided by the total number of days of operation in the reporting period, (also see "Reporting Period").
"Breast Milk": means only self-expressed breast milk which is provided by an infant's mother. This term does not include that which may be purchased by a provider or parent and does not include that which is supplied by the provider should she breastfeed an infant other than her own.
"Bureau": means the Bureau of Child and Family Services.
"C.A.C.F.P. Child Care Standards": See 7 CFR Part 226.
"Child Care Center": means a non-residential child care facility licensed by the Department of Human Services, or by military authority if located on a military installation,, to serve 13 or more children.
"Child Care Facility": means a child care center, head start center, child day care home, or outside-school-hours care center licensed or approved by the Maine Department of Human Services, or by military authority if located on a military installation, and operating under the auspices of a participating organization.
"Children": See 7 CFR Part 226.
"Claiming Month": means the period of time from the day following the final Friday of a calendar month until and including the final Friday of the next calendar month.
"Claiming Percentage": See 7 CFR Part 226.
"Current Income": See 7 CFR Part 226.
"Daily Attendance": means the documentation of each enrolled adult's or child's presence or absence from the program on each day of program operation.
"Day Care Home": means a non-residential facility licensed or registered by the Department of Human Services, or by military authority if located on a military installation to provide child care for up to 12 children.
"Department": for purposes of this policy manual means the Maine Department of Human Services (DHS). (Also see 7 CFR Part 226 for use of the term in Federal regulation.)
"Documentation": See 7 CFR Part 226.
"Economic Unit": means a group of related or unrelated persons who share housing and all significant income and expenses.
"Eligible Costs for Organizations Operating Centers or Outside-School-Hours Centers": means those expenses approved in the signed agreement* or amendment, between the organization and the Department which are incurred by the center in the production of meals and/or supplements which meet C.A.C.F.P. component and quantity requirements.
"Eligible Costs for Organizations Sponsoring Day Care Homes": means those expenses approved in the signed agreement, or amendment, between the organization and the Department which are incurred in the process of sponsoring day care homes for participation in the C.A.C.F.P. and which may appear on the monthly claim for reimbursement.
"Enrolled Child": See 7 CFR Part 226.
"Enrolled Participant": See 7 CFR Part 226.
"Expansion Funds": See 7 CFR Part 226.
"Family": means a group of related or unrelated individuals who are not residents of an Institution or boarding home but who are living as one economic unit.
"Family Income": See 7 CFR Part 226.
"Fiscal Year": See 7 CFR Part 226.
"FNS": See 7 CFR Part 226.
"FNSRO": See 7 CFR Part 226.
"Food Service Equipment Assistance": See 7 CFR Part 226.
"Food Service Management Company": See 7 CFR Part 226.
"Food Stamp' Household": See 7 CFR Part 226.
"Foster Child": means a child who is a ward of the State who has been placed in the care of a "Foster Family." Such an individual shall be considered to be a family of one when determining the child's eligibility for "Free" or "Reduced-Price" meals. Only income which is at the disposal of the foster child shall be considered when calculating the child's monthly income.
"Free Meal": See 7 CFR Part 226.
"Functionally Impaired Adult": See 7 CFR Part 226 and Section III, Subsection F of this manual.
"Household": See 7 CFR Part 226. (Also see "Family" this section.)
"Income": means total monetary compensation for services including wages.. salaries, commissions.. fees, net Income from no-farm and farm self-employment.. Social Securities, dividends, interest, net rents public assistance or welfare, unemployment compensation, pensions, retirements, contributions received, veterans benefits, annuities, alimony, child support, net royalties and any other income .available to pay the price of a meal.
"Income Standards"; See 7 CFR-Part 226.
"Income to the Program": See 7 CFR Part 226.
"Independent Center": See 7 CFR Part 226.
"Individual Plan of Care": means a plan designed to maintain an adult day care participant at his/her current level or to restore the participant to a level of self care. The plan must be written and must include at least the following components:
"Infant Cereal": See 7 CFR Part 226.
"Infant Formula": See 7 CFR Part 226.
"Institution": See 7 CFR Part 226. (Also see "Organization" this section)
"Key Element Reporting System": (KERS) See 7 CFR Part 226.
"Licensed Capacity": means the total number of children/adults a facility is approved by license to maintain in attendance at any one time. As per Child Care Licensing rules for Child Day Care Facilities: children of staff members shall be counted in the appropriate age groups when in care at the child care facility.
"Meals": See 7 CFR Part 226.
"Medicaid Participant": See 7 CFR Part 226.
"Milk": See 7 CFR Part 226.
"Menu": means a written plan that identifies food items to be served to adults or children at a specific meal/supplement.
"Non-Pricing Program": See 7 CFR Part 226.
"Non-Profit": means an organization incorporated or registered as a non-profit organization with the Secretary of the State of Maine.
"Non-Profit Food Service": See 7 CFR Part 226.
"Non-Residential" See 7 CFR Part 226.
"OIG": See 7 CFR Part 226.
"Operating Costs": See 7 CFR Part 226.
"Organization": means a sponsoring organization of child day care homes, or the organization which operates child day care centers, head start centers, outside-school-hours care centers, or adult day care centers which enters Into an agreement with the Department to assure final administrative and financial responsibility for Program operations. (Also see "Institutions" and 7 CFR Part 226.)
"Outside-school-hours Care Center": See 7 CFR Part 226.
"Paid": means the rate to be paid for a meal or supplement served to an enrolled participant who does not meet the U.S.D.A. family size and income requirements or to an applicant whose family declines to provide the information necessary to determine the participant's eligibility for either "Free" or "Reduced-price" meals.
"Participant": See 7 CFR Part 226.
"Personal Property": See 7 CFR Part 226.
"Plan of Service": means a written plan for adult day care center participants, based on the assessment defined above which specifies:
"Pricing Program": See 7 CFR Part 226.
"Production Report": . means a report of the total quantity of each food item on the menu that is prepared and served to children and/or adults. The report must show the number of children by age group, adult participants, and other adults such as adult care givers for whom the meal or supplement was prepared.
"Program": See 7 CFR Part 226.
"Program Payments": See 7 CFR Part 226.
"Proprietary Title XIX Center" . See 7 CFR Part 226.
"Proprietary Title XX Center": See 7 CFR Part 226.
"Provider's Own Children": (In day care homes only) means all children related or unrelated to the provider who are living as part of the economic unit of the provider's family.
"Reduced-price Meal": See 7 CFR Part 226.
"Registered Capacity For Child Day Care Homes which have applied for and received a certificate as a "Registered Home Baby-sitting Service" means: The number of unrelated children approved to be in care at any one time, as per the certificate.. plus the number of related children approved to be maintained in care as per the approved Sponsor-Home Agreement and Sponsor-State Agreement. (see "Related Children")
"Reimbursement": See 7 CFR Part 226.
"Related Children": means the child care provider's daughters, sons, step-daughters, step-sons, adopted daughters, adopted sons, granddaughters, grandsons, nieces, nephews, or first cousins. Children beyond first cousins shall not be considered to be "Related Children" for C.A.C.F.P. purposes.
"Reporting Period": means a Claiming Month." (see "Claiming Month")
"School Year": See 7 CFR Part 226.
"Sponsoring Organization": See 7 CFR Part 226 and "Organization."
"SSI Participant": See 7 CFR Part 226.
"Start-up Payments": See 7 CFR Part 226.
"State": See 7 CFR Part 226.
"State Agency": for purposes of this policy manual means the Department of Human Services (also see 7 CFR Part 226 for use of the term in Federal regulations.)
"Title XVI": See 7 CFR Part 226.
"Title XIX": See 7 CFR Part 226.
"Title XX": See 7 CFR Part 226.
"Uniform Federal Assistance Regulations": See 7 CFR part 226.
"Vendor" means a public or private non-profit school from which a child. care organization purchases food or food services under a contract which spells out the rights and responsibilities of each party. ("Vendor" is also used generically in this Manual to refer to both schools and to Food Service Management Companies acting as "vendors" to a child care organization.)
"Verification": See 7 CFR Part 226.
"Yogurt": See 7 CFR Part 226.
C.M.R. 10, 148, ch. 1, 148-1-I, subsec. 148-1-I-D