Ohio law states the differ types of Foster Homes, knowing the difference is upon the Foster Parents - so they can educate the Case workers.    5103.02 Placement of children definitions.

B) “Family foster home” means a foster home that is not a specialized foster home.

(C) “Foster caregiver” means a person holding a valid foster home certificate issued under section 5103.03 of the Revised Code.

(D) “Foster home” means a private residence in which children are received apart from their parents, guardian, or legal custodian, by an individual reimbursed for providing the children non secure care, supervision, or training twenty-four hours a day. “Foster home” does not include care provided for a child in the home of a person other than the child’s parent, guardian, or legal custodian while the parent, guardian, or legal custodian is temporarily away. Family foster homes and specialized foster homes are types of foster homes.

(G) “Specialized foster home” means a medically fragile foster home or a treatment foster home.

(H) “Treatment foster home” means a foster home that incorporates special rehabilitative services designed to treat the specific needs of the children received in the foster home and that receives and cares for children who are emotionally or behaviorally disturbed, chemically dependent, mentally retarded, developmentally disabled, or who otherwise have exceptional needs.

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