If an adult is temporarily absent from the home because of treatment, training, or employment or the child is temporarily absent from the home because of treatment or training,  the individual may be included in the AU if certain conditions are met.  The list below details these conditions. 

Include the adult in the AU when all of the following conditions are met: 

• the absence is temporary with a plan for treatment or training to return the adult to the home
• the adult continues to exercise care and control of the AU children
• the adult wants to be included in the AU during the absence

• the absence is temporary with a plan for treatment or training to return the child to the home
• the dependent child continues to be under the care and control of the caretaker relative
• the caretaker or other eligible adult wants the child to be included in the AU

• adult is incarcerated
• child is incarcerated, including placement in a detention facility
• the child or the adult is in a public institution
• the child is placed in a private residential childcare institution

For more information on the circumstances that qualify as a temporary absence from the home, read Chapter 2610.2 of your policy manual.