Children's Transition Care Center (CTCC)
- Definition:
- A facility which provides a temporary, home-like environment for medically fragile children, technology dependent children, and children with special health care needs, up to 21 years of age, who are deemed clinically stable by a physician but are dependent on life-sustaining medications, treatments, and equipment, and who require assistance with activities of daily living to facilitate transitions from a hospital or other facility to a home or other appropriate setting.
- Exemptions:
- • Child welfare agencies and other facilities and centers wherein children and youths are detained which are operated by any department or agency of state, county, or municipal government.
- • Any bona fide boarding school whose primary purpose of admission is education, provided that such facility in order to claim exemption shall operate under a published academic educational curriculum which meets the requirements of the State Department of Education, shall have classroom facilities which are not used for residential living and shall not have been granted nor have assumed legal custody of children attending the facility.
- • Facilities owned and operated by the state or federal government.
- Type Regulations:
- A children's transition care center must obtain a license or temporary license.
Centers operated as a part of a local church ministry or religious nonprofit school or a nonprofit religious charitable organization may request to be commissioned in lieu of licensed. All provisions of these rules shall apply to centers that request to be commissioned, and for the purposes of these rules, the term license shall have the same meaning as commission.
- Legal Authority:
- O.C.G.A. § 49-5-3, Title 49- Social Services; Chapter 5- Programs and Protection for Children and Youth; Article 3- Employeesa Records Checks for Day Care Centers
O.C.G.A. § 49-5-8, Title 49- Social Services; Chapter 5- Programs and Protection for Children and Youth; Article 8- Central Child Abuse Registry
O.C.G.A. § 49-5-12, Title 49- Social Services; Chapter 5- Programs and Protection for Children and Youth; Article 12- Policy Council for Children and Families
O.C.G.A. § 49-5-14.1, Title 49- Social Services; Chapter 5- Programs and Protection for Children and Youth; Article 14.1- Foster Parents Bill of Rights
The following link will take you to the Georgia General Assembly, Georgia Code website. Scroll down the page to find O.C.G.A. § 49-5-12.
- Rules:
- Rules and Regulations for Children's Transition Care Centers, Chapter 290-2-6, effective February 22, 2009.
- Fees:
- • License: No charge
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