Licensing Standards
for DayCare Centers
Section .21
FAMILY CARE HOME
Family Care Home, defined at 26-6-102(4), C.R.S., includes the following
types of facilities:
- A. A Family Foster Home is a facility providing care for a child
or children not related to the head of household, or a certified relative
foster care home, for regular 24-hour care.
- B. A Family Child Care Home is a type of family care home that provides
less than 24-hour care for 2 or more children on a regular basis in a place
of residence. Children in care are from different family households and are
not related to the head of household.
- C. A Specialized Group Facility is established and supervised by
a county department of social services or a licensed child placement agency
for the purpose of providing 24-hour care for 5 through 12 children from 3
to 18 years of age and for those persons to 21 years old who are placed by
court order prior to their eighteenth birthday whose special needs can best
be met through the medium of a small group.
- A Specialized Group Home is located in a house owned
or otherwise controlled by the group home parents who are primarily responsible
for the care of the children and reside at the home.
- A Specialized Group Center is located in a facility owned
or controlled by a governing body that hires the group center parents
or personnel who are primarily responsible for the care of the children.
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