200.575 Family preservation services programs.
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(1)As used in this section, unless the context otherwise requires:
(a)"Department" means the Department for Community Based Services; and
(b)"Family preservation services" means programs that:
1. Follow intensive, home-based service models with demonstrated
effectiveness in reducing or avoiding the need for out-of-home
placement;
2. Provide such services that result in lower costs than would out-of-home
placement; and
3. Employ specially trained caseworkers who shall:
a. Provide at least half of their services in the family's home or other
natural community setting;
b. Provide direct therapeutic services available twenty-four
hours per day for a family;
c. Aid in the solution of practical problems that contribute to family
stress so as to effect improved parental performance and enhanced
functioning of the family unit;
d. Arrange for additional assistance, including but not limited to
housing, child care, education, and job training, emergency cash
grants, state and federally funded public assistance, and other basic
support needs; and
e. Supervise any paraprofessionals or "family aides" made available
to provide specialized services or skills to manage everyday
problems and better provide and care for children.
(2)The department shall be the lead administrative agency for family preservation
services and may receive funding for the implementation of these services. The
department shall:
(a)Provide the coordination of and planning for the implementation of family
preservation services;
(b)Provide standards for family preservation services programs;
(c)Monitor these services to ensure they meet measurable standards of
performance as set forth in state law and as developed by the department; and
(d)Provide the initial training and approve any ongoing training required by
providers of family preservation services.
(3)The department may provide family preservation services directly or may contract
to provide these services. In the event the department provides family preservation
services with state caseworkers, those caseworkers and cases shall be excluded for
the overall caseworker or case averages provided on a quarterly basis to the