Ohio Admin. Code 5101:2-40-02 - Supportive services
(A)
Supportive
services are services provided or arranged to protect, strengthen, or assist
children and families or caretakers. The primary goals of all supportive
services are:
(1)
To protect the health, safety, and welfare of children
and youth.
(2)
To respect and support the integrity of the child's
family unit.
(3)
To maintain the child in the home with their family or
caretaker.
(4)
To reunify the child with their parent, guardian,
custodian, or caretaker when removed from their home or utilize concurrent
planning to attain permanency in the event reunification is unable to be
achieved.
(5)
To assist a child who has attained the age of fourteen
in the custody of a public children services agency (PCSA) or private child
placing agency (PCPA) to prepare them for the transition from agency custody to
self- sufficiency.
(B)
Supportive
services will be made available by the PCSA to the child, their parent,
guardian, custodian, or caretaker through one or more of the following:
(1)
Information and
referral services to community resources.
(2)
Prevention
services from the PCSA or Title IV-E agency in collaboration with community
service providers pursuant to rule
5101:2-40-05 of the
Administrative Code.
(3)
Direct services from the PCSA.
(4)
Contract services
from community service providers.
(5)
Compact services
from community service providers.
(6)
Direct and
indirect services from child abuse and neglect multidisciplinary
teams.
(7)
Direct and indirect services through the county family
and children first council or the county "Help Me Grow"
provider.
(C)
Supportive services will be available if one or more of
the following exists:
(1)
The child, their parent, guardian, custodian, or
caretaker requests services, and the PCSA determines the services are
necessary.
(2)
The assessment of safety and risk, case decision, or
other information obtained during the assessment/investigation indicates the
need for the services.
(3)
The PCSA receives an order of protective
supervision.
(4)
The child is placed in substitute care.
(5)
The ongoing
assessment of safety and risk indicates the need for services.
(6)
The period
immediately following reunification of the child, as needed.
(D)
If one
or more of the conditions listed in paragraph (C) of this rule exist, the
"Family Case Plan" or "Prevention Services Plan", will be prepared in
accordance with rule 5101:2-38-01, 5101:2-38-05, 5101:2-38-07, 5101:2-40-05, or
5101:2-38-20 of the
Administrative Code.
(E)
The PCSA will refer a child who is the subject of a
report and is not at risk of imminent harm, to a community organization or
voluntary preventive services.
(F)
The PCSA may
consider contacting the county department of job and family services (CDJFS) to
determine if any services or assistance can be provided to families coming to
the PCSA's attention including but not limited to prevention, retention, and
contingency (PRC) services.
(G)
Each PCSA
participating in the regionalization of supportive services will identify
regionalized services, and the other counties involved in the regionalization
of services.
(H)
At the conclusion of a diagnostic service, the PCSA is
to request a written report from the service provider to include information
indicating the progress the parent, guardian, custodian, or caretaker and child
have made to resolve areas identified in the provider's service or treatment
plan. Upon receipt of the report, it is to be maintained in the case
record.
(I)
At a minimum of once every three months and at the
conclusion of any services or treatment, the PCSA is to request written or
verbal reports from all service providers to include information indicating the
progress the parent, guardian, custodian, or caretaker and child have made to
resolve areas identified in the provider's service or treatment plan. Upon
receipt of the report, it is to be maintained in the case record. If the report
is not written, the service provider's identity, the date of the verbal report,
and the content of the verbal report is to be documented in the Ohio statewide
automated child welfare information system (SACWIS).
(J)
The PCSA is to
document the following in the Ohio SACWIS:
(1)
Supportive
services offered and/or provided.
(2)
Supportive
services planned, but not provided, and the reason the services were not
provided.
(K)
Services made available by the PCSA can be paid for
through utilization of the following funding sources, if appropriate:
(1)
Title IV-B
funds.
(2)
Title IV-E funds.
(3)
Title XX funds,
through the CDJFS.
(4)
State child protection allocation.
(5)
Temporary
assistance for needy families (TANF) funds, through the CDJFS.
(6)
TANF independent
living funds, through the Ohio department of job and family services
(ODJFS).
(7)
Chafee funds.
(8)
Local
funds.
(L)
Utilization of the funding sources outlined in
paragraph (K) of this rule are to be governed by the respective guidelines of
each funding source.
Replaces: 5101:2-40-02
Notes
Promulgated Under: 119.03
Statutory Authority: 2151.412, 2151.421, 5153.166
Rule Amplifies: 2151.412, 5153.16, 2151.421
Prior Effective Dates: 04/01/1983, 01/01/1987, 01/01/1988, 01/01/1989, 01/01/1991, 10/01/1992, 12/15/1996 (Emer.), 03/31/1997, 06/30/1997 (Emer.), 06/17/1999, 04/01/2001, 06/25/2004, 03/01/2006, 10/01/2009, 05/30/2014, 10/01/2017, 06/01/2019, 04/01/2021
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