The persons assigned by or under contract with the local
agency to provide family community support services to a child shall use a
process designed to assist the child with severe emotional disturbance to
pursue the outcomes of the child's improved or maintained functioning and
mental health and the child's remaining with the child's family in the
community. To assist the child to meet these outcomes, family community support
services must be provided in a manner consistent with the mission of the
Minnesota comprehensive children's mental health act as specified in Minnesota
Statutes, section
245.487,
subdivision 3, and the outcomes of case management services as specified in
part
9520.0904. Additionally, a child's
family community support services must be designed to:
A. assist the
child and the
child's
family to
achieve the outcomes identified in the plan required for the
child under part
9535.4020, subpart 10, and the
service priorities agreed to by the
child, the
child's
parent, and the
service
provider. The plan must be consistent with the outcomes of
family community
support services as specified in Minnesota Statutes, section
245.4884,
subdivision 1. These outcomes are to improve the ability of the
child to:
(1) manage basic activities of daily
living;
(2) function appropriately
in home, school, and community settings;
(3) participate in leisure time or community
youth activities;
(4) set goals and
plans;
(5) reside with the family
in the community; and
(6)
participate in after-school and summer activities;
B. assist the child to make a smooth
transition among mental health, vocational rehabilitation, and education
services;
C. ensure that the state
and local agencies providing transition services to the child work together so
the child has the opportunity to access vocational rehabilitation and
educational services that will assist the child to live and function
independently within the community;
D. at least six months before the 18th
birthday of a child who is not receiving case management services under parts
9520.0900 to
9520.0926, assist the child and,
as appropriate, the child's parent or legal representative in assessing the
child's need to receive case management services to adults with serious and
persistent mental illness, community support services, and other mental health
services;
E. improve overall family
functioning if clinically appropriate to the child's needs;
F. assist the child to live in families or
settings that offer a safe, permanent relationship with nurturing parents or
caretakers; and
G. for the child
whose best interest is to reside away from the child's own home, ensure the
continuation of family community support services appropriate to the child's
mental health needs in a setting as similar to and as geographically near the
child's family and community as feasible.
