(2) “Assistant Caregiver” means an adult who assists the licensee of a specialized small family home caring for four or more children in the administration of specialized in-home health care.

(c)(1) “Child” means a person who is under 18 placed with a caregiver in a licensed small family home by a regional center, a parent or guardian, or a public child placement agency with or without a court order. “Child” also means a person who is:

(2) “Child with Special Health Care Needs” means a person who is 22 years of age or younger, who meets the requirements of Welfare and Institutions Code section 17710, subsection (a) and all of the following conditions:

(d)(2) “Disability” means a condition which makes a person developmentally disabled, mentally disordered or physically handicapped and for whom special care and supervision is required as a result of their condition.

(f)(1) “Family Health Care” means health care which does not require the skills of qualified technical or professional personnel and is provided to a child by the foster parent in accordance with Section 83075(e). When these requirements are met, the family health care that may be provided includes, but is not limited to the following:

(g)(1) “Gender Expression” refers to the ways a person communicates their gender identity through clothing, haircut, behavior and interaction with others.

(2) “Gender Identity” means a person's internal identification or self-image as male, female, or other.

(h)(1) “Health Care Professional” means a physician or an individual who is licensed or certified under Division 2 of the Business and Professions Code to perform the necessary client care procedures prescribed by a physician. Such health care professionals include the following: Registered Nurse, Public Health Nurse, Licensed Vocational Nurse, Psychiatric Technician, Physical Therapist, Occupational Therapist and Respiratory Therapist.

(2) “Health-related services” shall include, but not be limited to, medical, dental, vision, mental health, substance use disorder services, reproductive and sexual health care. This shall include abortion and contraception related services and gender affirming health care and gender affirming mental health care.

(3) “Home” means a licensed small family home.

(i)(1) “Individualized Health Care Plan” means the written plan developed by an individualized health care plan team and approved by the team physician, or other health care professional designated by the physician to serve on the team, for the provision of specialized in-home health care.

(2) “Individualized Health Care Plan Team” means those individuals who develop an individualized health care plan for a child with special health care needs. This team must include the child's primary care physician or other health care professional designated by the physician, any involved medical team, the county social worker or regional center caseworker, and any health care professional designated to monitor the specialized in-home health care provided to the child as stated in the child's individualized health care plan. The individualized health care plan team may include, but shall not be limited to, a public health nurse, representatives from the California Children's Services Program or the Child Health and Disability Prevention Program, regional centers, the county mental health department and where reunification is the goal, the parent or parents, if available. In addition, the individualized health care plan team may include the prospective specialized licensees who shall not participate in any team determination required by Sections 83010.1(a)(1)(C) and (2)(C), and 83065.1(a)(1)(B).

(l)(1) “Licensee's Family” means any relative as defined in section 80001.r.(1) any adopted children, and any person under guardianship or conservatorship, of the licensee, or the licensee's spouse, who resides in the home.

(m)(1) “Medical Conditions Requiring Specialized In-Home Health Care” means, provided that care may be safely and adequately administered in the home:

(n)(1) “Needs and Services Plan” means a time-limited, goal-oriented written plan implemented by the licensee which identifies the specific needs of an individual child, including but not limited to the items specified in section 83068.2, and delineates those service needs necessary in order to meet the child's identified needs.

(o)(1) “On-Call Assistant” means an adult who is available to respond to a specialized small family home in case of emergency, but who need not otherwise be physically present at the home.

(p)(1) “Physical Restraining Device” means any physical or mechanical device, material, or equipment attached or adjacent to a child's body which the child cannot remove easily and which restricts the child's freedom of movement. Restraining devices include leg restraints, arm restraints, soft ties or vests, wheel chair safety bars, and full length bedrails.

(2) “Psychotropic medication(s)” are those medications as defined in Sections 369.5(d) and 739.5(d) of the Welfare and Institutions Code.

(s)(1) “Self-administer” means the act of a “child” administering or giving themselves medicine or injections as specified in Sections 83075.1, Emergency Medical Assistance, Injections, and Self-Administration of Medications.

(2) “Sexual Orientation” describes a person's emotional, romantic or sexual attraction to others that may be shaped at an early age.

(3) “Specialized In-Home Health Care” means health care, other than family health care, identified by the child's physician as appropriately administered in the home by a health care professional or by a licensee or staff trained by health care professionals.

(4) “Specialized Small Family Home” means a licensed small family home which provides specialized in-home health care to children.

(t)(1) “Transgender” means a person whose gender identity does not correspond with their anatomical sex. A transgender girl or woman is a girl or woman whose birth sex was male but who understands herself to be female. A transgender boy or man is a boy or man whose birth sex was female but who understands himself to be male.