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use when determining whether to allow a child in foster care under the responsibility of the State to participate in extracurricular, enrichment, cultural, and social activities. (28) ‘‘Relative’’ means an adult who is related to a child or youth by blood, marriage, or adoption, as well as an adult who is not related by blood, marriage, or adoption, but who has a relationship with the child, youth, or young adult, or their family (fictive kin). Under the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA), a relative is defined as a family member who is related to the child by blood, marriage, or adoption only. (29) ‘‘Restraint’’ means an emergency safety intervention defined as any manual method, physical or mechanical device, material, or equipment attached or adjacent to the child’s body, that the individual cannot remove easily which restricts freedom of movement or normal access to one’s body. (30) ‘‘Staff’’ means an adult who is employed within the group care facility full-time or part-time, including, but not limited to, management, administrative, caregiving, program, maintenance, food service, and service personnel. The term includes a person who has or is seeking a license to operate a group care facility. This definition does not include adults who are unpaid volunteers or whose presence in the group care facility or contact with children is incidental in nature. However, the group care facility must ensure that full-time or part-time staff provide line-of-sight supervision for any adult unpaid volunteer or whose presence in the facility or contact with children is incidental in nature. (31) ‘‘Standard license’’ means a license issued when a facility meets all regulatory requirements to obtain a license. (32) ‘‘Supervision’’ means guidance of the behavior and activities of a child by a staff member who is within sight or sound of a child to ensure the safety and well-being of the child. (33) ‘‘Time out’’ means a behavior intervention technique that is defined as the temporary restriction of an individual for a period of time to a designated area from which the person is not physically prevented from leaving, for the purpose of providing the individual an opportunity to regain self-control. Time-out will last only for the shortest amount of time needed. (34) ‘‘Toddler’’ means a child at least one year of age but less than 3 years of age. (35) ‘‘Transgender person’’ means a person whose gender identity (their understanding of themselves as male or female) does not correspond with their anatomical sex. A transgender woman is a woman whose birth sex was male but who understands herself to be female. A transgender man is a man whose birth sex was female but who understands himself to be male. (36) ‘‘Volunteer’’ means a person, who of their own free will, provide goods or services to a facility with no monetary or material compensation and has no opportunity for unsupervised contact with children. (37) ‘‘Volunteer staff’’ means persons, who of their own free will, provide goods or services and works in a facility with no monetary or material compensation and have opportunity for unsuper- vised contact with children. HISTORY: Amended by State Register Volume 27, Issue No. 5, eff May 23, 2003; SCSR 45–5 Doc. No. 5022, eff May 28, 2021; SCSR 47–5 Doc. No. 5109, eff May 26, 2023. 114–591. Organization and Administration. A. Purpose and Need. (1) At the time of application for licensing of a new facility, a facility shall submit: (a) A detailed description of the why there is a need for this particular facility and any facts that support the applicant’s assertion for that need. (b) Letters of support documenting a need for their services from at least three community partners, including referral sources (e.g. Department of Social Services, Department of Juvenile Justice, Department of Disabilities and Special Needs, etc.). (c) A concise written statement addressing the following: (i) Definitive statement of purpose and objectives with respect to type of residential child care to be provided;