12 Va. Admin. Code § 30-130-930 - Organization and administration requirements
A. These standards shall be met by any enrolled
provider signing an agreement with DMAS to provide case management services to children in treatment foster
care.
B. A Medicaid enrolled treatment foster care case
management provider must be licensed by the Department of Social Services (DSS) as a child-placing agency
with treatment foster care as defined in this part or shall be certified by DSS as designated by DMAS to meet
all the requirements of this part. Officers, employees, or agents of the Commonwealth, or of any county,
city, or town acting within the scope of their authority as such, who serve as or maintain a child-placing
agency shall not be required to be licensed but shall be required to be certified to meet all the
requirements of this part by the DSS.
C. Treatment and service
plans in treatment foster care.
1. The treatment foster care case
management provider shall prepare and implement an individualized treatment and service plan for each child
in its care. When available, the parents shall be consulted unless parental rights have been terminated. If
the parents cannot be consulted, the agency shall document the reason in the child's record.
2. When the treatment foster care case management provider holds custody of
the child, a service plan shall be filed with the court within 60 days after the agency receives custody
unless the court grants an additional 60 days, or the child is returned home or placed for adoption within 60
days. Providers with legal custody of the child shall follow the requirements of §§ 16.1-281 and
16.1-282 of the Code of Virginia.
3. The permanency planning
goals and the requirements and procedures in the Department of Social Services Service Programs Manual,
Volume VII, Section III, Chapter B, "Preparing the Initial Service Plan" may be consulted.
4. The initial plan of care for services to the child must be developed
within two weeks of placement.
5. Comprehensive treatment and
service plan. The case manager and other designated child-placing agency staff shall develop and implement
for each child in care an individualized comprehensive treatment and service plan within the first 45 days of
placement that shall include:
a. A comprehensive assessment of the child's
emotional, behavioral, educational, nutritional, and medical needs;
b. The treatment goals and objectives including the child's specific
problems, behaviors and skills to be addressed, the criteria for achievement and target dates for each goal
and objective;
c. The treatment foster care case management
provider's program of therapies, activities and services, including the specific methods of intervention and
strategies designed to meet the above goals and objectives, and describing how the provider is working with
related community resources, including the child's primary care physician, to provide a continuity of
care;
d. The discharge goals and objectives, services to be
provided for their achievement, and plans for reunification of the child and the child's family, where
appropriate. Unless specifically prohibited by court order, foster children shall have access to regular
contact with their families.
e. The target date for discharge
from treatment foster care case management;
f. For children age
16 and over, the plan shall include a description of the programs and services that will help the child
transition from foster care to independent living; and
g. The
dated signature of the case manager and the identity of all members of the treatment team that participated
in the plan's development.
6. The case manager shall
include and work with the child, the custodial agency, the treatment foster parents and the parents, where
appropriate, in the development of the treatment and service plan and a copy shall be provided to the
custodial agency. A copy shall be provided to the treatment foster parents as long as confidential
information about the child's birth family is not revealed. A copy shall be provided to the parents, if
appropriate, as long as confidential information about the treatment foster parents is not revealed. If any
of these parties do not participate in the development of the treatment and service plan, the case manager
shall document the reasons in the child's record.
7. The case
manager shall provide support and guidance to foster families in implementing the treatment and service plan
for the child.
D. Progress report and ongoing services
plans.
1. The case manager shall complete written progress reports
beginning 90 days after the date of the child's placement and every 90 days thereafter.
2. The progress report shall specify the time period covered and include:
a. Progress on the child's specific problems and behaviors and any changes
in the methods of intervention and strategies to be implemented:
(1)
Description of the treatment goals and objectives met, goals and objectives to be continued or added, the
criteria for achievement and target dates for each goal and objective;
(2) Description of the therapies, activities, and services provided during
the previous 90 days toward the treatment goals and objectives; and
(3) Any changes needed for the next 90 days;
b. Services provided during the last 90 days towards the discharge goals,
any changes in these goals, the criteria for achievement and target dates for each goal and objective, and
services to be provided during the next 90 days;
c. The child's
assessment of his progress and his description of services needed, where appropriate;
d. Contacts between the child and the child's family, where
appropriate;
e. Medical needs, specifying medical treatment
provided and still needed and medications provided;
f. An update
to the discharge plans, including the projected discharge date; and
g. A description of the programs and services provided to children ages 16
and older to help the child transition from foster care to independent living, where appropriate.
3. Annually, the progress report shall address the above
requirements as well as evaluate and update the comprehensive treatment and service plan for the upcoming
year.
4. The case manager shall date and sign each progress
report.
5. The case manager shall include each child who has the
ability to understand in the preparation of the child's treatment and service plans and progress reports or
document the reasons this was not possible. The child's comments shall be recorded in the report.
6. The case manager shall include and work with the child, the treatment
foster parents, the custodial agency and the parents, where appropriate, in the development of the progress
report. A copy shall be provided to the placing agency worker and, if appropriate, to the treatment foster
parents.
E. Contacts with child.
1. There shall be face-to-face contact between the case manager and the
child, based upon the child's treatment and service plan and as often as necessary to ensure that the child
is receiving safe and effective services.
2. Face-to-face
contacts shall be no less than twice a month, one of which shall be in the foster home. One of the contacts
shall include the child and at least one treatment foster parent and shall assess the relationship between
the child and the treatment foster parents.
3. The contacts shall
assess the child's progress, provide training and guidance to the treatment foster parents, monitor service
delivery, and allow the child to communicate concerns.
4. A
description of all contacts shall be documented in the narrative.
5. Children who are able to communicate shall be interviewed privately at
least once a month.
6. Unless specifically prohibited by court or
custodial agency, foster children shall have access to regular contact with their families as described in
the treatment and service plan.
7. The case manager shall work
actively to support and enhance child/family relationships and work directly with the child's family toward
discharge as specified in the treatment and service plan.
8. The
case manager shall record all medications prescribed for each child and all reported side effects or adverse
reactions.
F. Professional clinical or consultative
services. In consultation with the custodial agency, the case manager or caseworker shall provide or arrange
for a child to receive psychiatric, psychological, and other clinical services if the need for them has been
recommended or identified.
G. Narratives in the child's record.
Narratives shall be in chronological order and current within 30 days. Narratives shall include areas
specified in this part and shall cover:
1. Treatment and services
provided;
2. All contacts related to the child;
3. Visitation between the child and the child's family; and
4. Other significant events.
H. Treatment teams in treatment foster care.
1. The treatment foster care case management provider shall ensure that a
professional staff person provides leadership to the treatment team that includes:
a. Managing team decision making regarding the care and treatment of the
child and services to the child's family;
b. Providing
information and training as needed to treatment team members; and
c. Involving the child and the child's family in treatment team meetings,
plans, and decisions, and keeping them informed of the child's progress, whenever possible.
2. Treatment team members shall consult as often as necessary,
but at least on a quarterly basis.
Notes
Statutory Authority
§§ 32.1-324 and 32.1-325 of the Code of Virginia.
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