Idaho State Statutes - Idaho Attorney Directory

The board
of health and welfare shall have the power and it shall be its duty to
promulgate appropriate rules necessary to implement and enforce the following
standards for licensing a children's residential care facility:
(1) Assure the organizational stability of the facility, which may
require incorporation under the laws of Idaho.
(2) Require from the policy-making authority of the facility the
promulgation of a statement setting forth the facility's purposes and
objectives and describing the character and extent of the services which it
offers and maintains, and the geographical area to be served.
(3) Require a statement of solvency sufficient to maintain facilities and
personnel necessary to achieve its purposes and objectives and to maintain its
services.
(4) Assure such recordkeeping and reporting as may be deemed necessary to
the facility's services and to the department's licensing responsibility.
(5) Assure the safety and physical care of children for whom the facility
assumes or accepts responsibility.
(6) Establish the legal status of each child accepted for care and the
legal authority and responsibility of the facility for the child.
(7) Require a statement of intake policy which shall set forth criteria
for accepting children for care or service in relation to the facility's
purposes and facilities.
(8) Provide through observation and collateral inquiry for studies of
homes into which children may be placed sufficient to enable a judgment
determining the adequacy of the homes in relation to the needs of the
children.
(9) In the case of an institution specializing in maternity care to
unmarried mothers:
(a) Assure social services on behalf of both the mother and infant; and
(b) Assure protection of the legal rights and rights to confidential
treatment of minor unmarried mothers and their children which shall be
subject to disclosure according to chapter 3, title 9, Idaho Code.
(10) The department shall obtain a criminal history check on the owners,
operators and employees of all children's residential care facilities. The
criminal history check shall include the following:
(a) Statewide criminal identification bureau;
(b) Federal bureau of investigation (FBI) criminal history;
(c) National crime information center; and
(d) Statewide child abuse register.

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