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Pursuant to Arkansas Code Annotated (A.C.A) §25-10-145, the DPSQA is responsible for certifying, licensing, and surveying long-term care providers, Medicaid providers, substance abuse providers, and other programs or providers licensed by DHS.

DPSQA is responsible for licensing the following provider types:

• Adult Day Cares (ADC)
• Adult Day Health Cares (ADHC)
• Adult Developmental Day Treatment Programs (ADDT)
• Alcohol & Other Drug Abuse Treatment Programs (AODATP)
• Assisted Living Facility, Level I ( ALF I)
• Assisted Living Facility, Level ll (ALF II)
• Community Support Systems Providers (CSSP)
• Early Intervention Day Treatment Programs (EIDT)
• Intermediate Care Facilities for Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities (ICF/IID)
• Post Acute Head Injury Programs (PAHI)
• Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facilities (PRTF)
• Residential Care Facilities (RCF)
• Skilled Nursing Home/ Nursing Home (SNF/NF)

DPSQA is responsible for certifying the following programs:

• Acute Crisis Unit (ACU)/Crisis Stabilization Unit (CSU)
• Adult Day Health Services (ADHS)
• Adult Day Services (ADS)
• Attendant Care (AC)
• Behavioral Health Agencies (BHA)
• Environmental Modifications (EM)
• Home Delivered Meals (HDM)
• PACE
• Partial Hospitalization (PH)
• Personal Care (PC)
• Personal Emergency Response System (PERS)
• Respite- Facility Based (RFB)
• Respite- In Home (RIH)
• Targeted Case Management (TCM)
• Therapeutic Communities, Level 1 (TC1)
• Therapeutic Communities, Level 2 (TC2)

DPSQA is responsible for licensing the following Child Welfare Agencies:

• Foster Care (Placement)- refers to a child placement agency that places, plans for, or assists in the placement of an unrelated minor or child victim of human trafficking in a home or in a private-residence of one (1) or more family members for care and supervision on a twenty-four-hour basis.
• Therapeutic Foster Care (Placement)- refers to a child placement agency that places, plans for, or assists in the placement of an unrelated minor in a therapeutic foster care. Therapeutic foster care is intensive therapeutic care for children that is provided in a specially trained family homes and supported by licensed mental health professionals (as recognized by Arkansas Medicaid). A therapeutic foster care program is a family-based services delivery approach providing individualized treatment for children, youth, and their families. Treatment is delivered through an integrated set of services with key interventions and supports provided by therapeutic foster parents who are trained, supervised, and supported by qualified program staff. Therapeutic foster care services shall be provided in a separately identified program of a larger agency or be provided by an independent agency.
• Adoption (Placement)- refers to a child placement agency that places, plans for, or assists in the placement of an unrelated minor in a household of one (1) or more persons who are approved to accept a child for adoption.
• Placement Residential- refers to a child placement agency that places, plans for, or assists in the placement of an unrelated minor into a residential childcare facility or a child victim of human trafficking in any type of shelter or facility.
• Emergency Residential Child Care Facility (Residential)- refers to any child welfare agency that provides twenty-four-hour custodial care for six (6) or more unrelated children or a child victim of human trafficking on an emergency basis, not to exceed ninety (90) days. Any child admitted as an emergency placement shall be designated as such and shall be discharged within ninety (90) days.
• Emergency Family Style Care (Residential)- refers to any child welfare agency that provides twenty-four-hour custodial care, in a home-like setting, for six (6) or more unrelated children or a child victim of human trafficking on an emergency basis, not to exceed ninety (90) days.
• Residential Child Care Facility (Residential)- refers to any child welfare agency that provides care, training, education, custody, or supervision on a twenty-four-hour basis for six (6) or more unrelated minors.
• Residential Family Style Care (Residential)- refers to any child welfare agency that provides care, raining, education, custody, or supervision, in a home-like setting on a twenty-four-hour basis for six (6) or more unrelated minors or a child victim of human trafficking.
• Independent Living (Residential)- refers to a child welfare agency that provides specialized services in adult living preparation in an experimental setting for persons sixteen (16) years of age or older.
• Independent Living Family Style Care (Residential)- refers to a child welfare agency that provides specialized services in adult living preparation in an experimental home-like setting for persons sixteen (16) years of age or older.
• Transitional Living (Residential)- refers to a child welfare agency that provides specialized adult living preparation services in a structured setting for persons eighteen (18) year of age or older who have been admitted into the agency’s residential program prior to eighteen (18) years of age.
• Sexual Rehabilitation Program (Placement or Residential)- refers to a treatment program that a specific and specialized therapeutic program for children with sexually maladaptive behaviors. These licensed programs may be in a residential child care facility, or a therapeutic foster care home.