N.J. Admin. Code § 3A:56-1.3
The following words and terms, when used in this chapter, shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.
"Adventure activity" means a planned activity of a wilderness or athletic nature that requires specially trained staff members and/or special equipment that is utilized with children to assist in their development of self-confidence and insight.
"Agency" means an organization which has received a certificate of approval from the Office of Licensing to operate more than one group home, treatment home, and/or supervised transitional living home.
"Care management organization" or "CMO" means an organization that delivers case management and other service components as described at N.J.A.C. 10:73, under the Division of Children's System of Care.
"Certificate of approval" or "certificate" means a document issued by the Office of Licensing to a home or agency indicating that the home or agency is in substantial compliance with all applicable provisions of this chapter, and there is no serious or imminent hazard to the education, health, safety, well-being or treatment needs that exists in the home or agency affecting the children.
"Child" means any person who is under 18 years of age and/or any person between the ages of 18 and 21 who is under the supervision of the Department in placement in a children's group home.
"Denial of a certificate" means the withholding by the Office of Licensing of an initial certificate of approval for which a home or agency has applied.
"Department" means the New Jersey Department of Children and Families.
"Director" means the on-site staff member responsible for the daily operation and management of a home.
"Division" means the Division of Child Protection and Permanency, New Jersey Department of Children and Families.
"Exclusion" means the removal of a child to an area or room in the home where there is limited or no stimulation. This removal is a therapeutic intervention and a time for the child to reflect on his or her behavior in order to gain control so he or she can return to the other children.
"Infant" means any person who is under the care of his or her adolescent mother in a home serving adolescent mothers.
"Manual of Requirements for Children's Group Homes" or "manual" means the provisions contained in 3A:56-1.1 to 10.25. These provisions constitute minimum baseline requirements below which no home that is subject to the authority of 30:1-14, 30:4C-4 and 30:11B-4 is legally permitted to operate.
"Office of Licensing" or "Office" means the Office of Licensing, New Jersey Department of Children and Families.
"Parent" means a birth or adoptive parent, legal guardian, or any other person having responsibility for, or custody of, a child.
"Person" means any individual, agency, corporation, company, association, organization, society, firm, partnership, joint stock company, the State or any political subdivision thereof.
"Placing agency" means an agency that assumes responsibility for payment of room and board for a child placed in a group home, teaching family home, alternative care home, supervised transitional living home, psychiatric community home for children, or treatment home.
"Quality assurance" or "QA" means a program or set of activities designed to monitor, evaluate, and improve care or services provided in order to enhance the health of clients and the effective use of resources.
"Refusal to renew a certificate" means the non-issuance of a certificate of approval by the Office of Licensing to a home or agency after its existing certificate has expired.
"Restraint" means the holding of a child so that he or she cannot move all or part of his or her body, including those instances when staff physically escort the child.
"Restrictive behavior management practice" means the use of physical restraint and exclusion as part of a comprehensive treatment plan to help the child develop self-control, to reduce maladaptive behavior or to protect the child and others from harm.
"Revocation of a certificate" means a permanent removal of a home's or agency's current certificate of approval to operate.
"Risk management" or "RM" means clinical and administrative activities designed to detect, prevent, or reduce risks that could impair client care or client, staff, or visitor comfort or safety.
"Shall" denotes a provision of this manual that a home or agency must meet to qualify for a certificate of approval.
"Should" denotes a recommendation reflecting goals towards which a home or agency is encouraged to work.
"Staff member" or "staff" means any person employed by or working for or at a home or agency on a regularly scheduled basis. This includes full-time, part-time, substitute, volunteer, student intern, contract or consulting personnel, whether compensated or not.
"Suspension of a certificate" means a temporary removal of a home's or agency's current certificate of approval to operate.
"Time out" means instructing a child to calm down and remain quiet for a brief period of time as a means of discipline and to teach the child self-control. A time out may occur in the presence of other staff members and children or in an area of the home where the child has access to stimulation or activities such as a library or the child's bedroom.
"Utilization review" or "UR" means the process of using predefined criteria to evaluate the appropriateness of admissions and continued stays and whether clients are receiving the services best suited to their needs.
N.J. Admin. Code § 3A:56-1.3