253J00000X — Foster Care Agency

Grouping

Agencies

Classification

Foster Care Agency

Specialization

None — this code IS the classification

Section

Non-Individual

Definition

A Foster Care Agency is an agency that provides foster care as defined in the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) as "24-hour substitute care for children outside their own homes." Foster care settings include, but are not limited to, nonrelative foster family homes, relative foster homes (whether payments are being made or not), group homes, emergency shelters, residential facilities, and pre-adoptive homes.

NUCC’s own wording, not a paraphrase.