Definitions

Child Care Center

Located usually in a commercial building where non-medical care and supervision are provided from infant to school-age children in a group setting for periods of less than 24 hours.

Commute Hours

The time it takes for the participant to travel from the child care provider to the activity or activities for which child care is being provided and from there back to the child care provider. Child care reimbursement cannot be approved for parents who commute between the child care provider and their home.

Exceptional Needs Children

Exceptional Needs Children are children who may be developmentally disabled, hard of hearing, deaf, speech impaired, visually handicapped, seriously emotionally disturbed, orthopedically impaired, other health impaired, deaf-blind, multi-disabled or children with specific learning disabilities who either have an active IEP or IFSP and are receiving special education/early intervention services.

Family Child Care Home

Reflects a home-like environment where non-medical care and supervision are provided in the provider's own home for periods of less than 24 hours.

Full-time Plus

The amount of time that exceeds 10.5 hours per day or 52.5 hours per week.

License-Exempt

A child care provider who is not required to obtain a child care license, as specified in the California Code of Regulations, Title 22, Division 12, Section 101158.

Licensed Provider

An individual or organization that has obtained a child care license, as specified in the California Code of Regulations, Title 22, Division 12, Section 101156.

Regional Market Rate Ceilings

The child care rate ceilings that the State issues periodically, which provide the maximum amount that the State of California will reimburse for subsidized child care services on behalf of CalWORKs participants.

Severely Disabled Children

Severely Disabled Children are children with either an active IEP or IFSP and require instruction and training in programs serving pupils with profound disabilities, such as autism, blindness, deafness, severe orthopedic impairments, serious emotional disturbances or severe developmental disabilities.

Trustline Registry

California’s registry of license-exempt child care providers who have passed criminal background screening and clearance process through a fingerprint check of records from the California Department of Justice’s California Criminal History System; the Child Abuse Central Index of California and FBI Criminal History System.