WHO COUNTS IN THE CHILD CARE AND DEVELOPMENT FUND APPLICANT’S HOUSEHOLD (FAMILY)?

A Child Care and Development Fund household is one or more custodial adults and children related by blood or law, or other person standing in loco parentis, which means “in place of a parent,” residing in the same CCDF household. Where custodial adults over the age of 18 (other than spouses or biological parents of the children needing services) reside together, each is considered a separate CCDF household. Wards of the local office of the Department of Child Services, foster children on Title IV-E, are the legal responsibility of DCS and not the CCDF household in which the child has been placed.