• Child Care Home/Center;
• Nursery School;
• Residential Treatment Center;
• Group Home;
• Licensed/Unlicensed Foster Parents, and Relatives;
• Division of Youth Services (DYS) Facility;
• Juvenile Court Facility;
• Department of Mental Health (DMH) Facility;
• Public, Private and Parochial School;
• Health Care Facility

For the purposes of this section all licensed facilities, contractual facilities, license exempt, and approved homes are considered out-of-home.

OHI shall ensure that when an employee of an out-of-home care setting as listed above, is named as an alleged perpetrator, the out-of-home care setting shall be listed as a parent. This will assist county staff in locating substantiated reports in the CA/N system for inquiries involving facilities.

Out-of-home investigations differ from investigations conducted in a family setting.  The worker must be knowledgeable of characteristics, indicators and policies and practices which may contribute to abuse/neglect in an out-of-home setting.

When conducting an investigation of child abuse/neglect in an out-of-home care setting, it is imperative that the worker carefully review the physical setting and the appropriate written policies and practices of the facility.