Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 36 > Chapter 5.1 > Article 5 - Family Support

• Action: includes any matter or proceeding in a court, civil or criminal. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Advisory council: means the developmental disabilities advisory council. See Arizona Laws 36-551
• Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
• Case manager: means a person who coordinates the implementation of the individual program plan of goals, objectives and appropriate services for persons with developmental disabilities. See Arizona Laws 36-551
• Client: means a person receiving developmental disabilities services from the department. See Arizona Laws 36-551
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Department: means the department of economic security. See Arizona Laws 36-551
• Developmental disability: means either a strongly demonstrated potential that a child who is under six years of age has a developmental disability or will develop a developmental disability, as determined by a test performed pursuant to section 36-694 or by other appropriate tests, or a severe, chronic disability that:

  (a) Is attributable to a cognitive disability, cerebral palsy, epilepsy, down syndrome or autism. See Arizona Laws 36-551

• Director: means the director of the department of economic security. See Arizona Laws 36-551
• District: means an administrative area of this state designated by the division of developmental disabilities in the department of economic security. See Arizona Laws 36-596.51
• Division: means the division of developmental disabilities in the department of economic security. See Arizona Laws 36-551
• Family: means a group that lives together and that consists of at least one person with a developmental disability and that person's parent. See Arizona Laws 36-596.51
• Family support: means services, supports and other assistance that are provided to families with members who have a developmental disability and that are designed to:

  (a) Strengthen the family's role as a primary care giver. See Arizona Laws 36-596.51

• Family support subsidy: means a grant that is provided to a family on behalf of a family member with a developmental disability or directly to an individual with a developmental disability for the purchase of services or necessities required to keep the family member or the individual in the family home or their own home or noninstitutional setting. See Arizona Laws 36-596.51
• Family support voucher: means an authorization of payment for services. See Arizona Laws 36-596.51
• Garnishment: Generally, garnishment is a court proceeding in which a creditor asks a court to order a third party who owes money to the debtor or otherwise holds assets belonging to the debtor to turn over to the creditor any of the debtor
• Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
• Guardian: means the person who, under court order, is appointed to fulfill the powers and duties prescribed in section 14-5312. See Arizona Laws 36-551
• including: means not limited to and is not a term of exclusion. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• independence: means the extent to which individuals with developmental disabilities and their families exert control and choice over their own lives. See Arizona Laws 36-596.51
• Individual program plan: means a written statement of services to be provided to a person with developmental disabilities, including habilitation goals and objectives, that is developed following initial placement evaluation and revised after periodic evaluations. See Arizona Laws 36-551
• Individual program plan team: means a group of people interested in or providing individual support to:

  (a) An individual with a developmental disability. See Arizona Laws 36-596.51

• Individual support: means services, supports and other assistance that enables a person with a developmental disability to be independent, productive and integrated in that person's community and that is designed to:

  (a) Enable the person to control that person's environment and have the most independent life possible. See Arizona Laws 36-596.51

• Integration: means that persons with developmental disabilities and their families:

  (a) Participate in the same community activities and employment as those persons without disabilities. See Arizona Laws 36-596.51

• Parent: includes a guardian, a legal custodian and a person acting in the place of a parent. See Arizona Laws 36-596.51
• Person: includes a corporation, company, partnership, firm, association or society, as well as a natural person. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Process: means a citation, writ or summons issued in the course of judicial proceedings. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Productivity: means engagement in income producing work that is measured through improvements in income level, employment status or job advancement or engagement in work that contributes to a household or community. See Arizona Laws 36-596.51