Idaho Administrative Code
Title IDAPA 16 - Health and Welfare, Department of
Rule 16.06.01 - CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES
GENERAL REQUIREMENTS AND SERVICES
Section 16.06.01.030 - CORE CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES

Universal Citation: ID Admin Code 16.06.01.030

Current through September 2, 2024

State and federally mandated core services provided by or through regional Child and Family offices include:

01. Crisis Services. Crisis Services are an immediate response to ensure safety when a child is believed to be in imminent danger because of child abuse, neglect, or abandonment. Crisis services require immediate access to services always to assess safety and place in alternate care, if necessary, to ensure safety for the child.

02. Screening Services. Initial contact with families and children to gather information to determine whether the child meets eligibility criteria to receive child protection or adoption services. When eligibility criteria is not met for Department mandated services, appropriate community referrals are made.

03. Assessment and Safety/Service Planning Services. Assessment process in which the safety threats to the child, and the family's concerns, strengths, and resources are identified after which a written plan is developed by the worker, together with the family and other interested parties. Each plan must have a long-term goal that identifies behaviorally-specific and measurable desired results and has specific tasks that identify who, how, and when the tasks will be completed.

04. Prevention Services. Evidence-based services that support children and families and are designed to reduce the risk of child abuse, neglect, or abandonment.

a. These services are provided in the Family First Prevention Services Act (Public Law 115-123) under the categories of mental health, substance use prevention and treatment, and in-home parent skill-based programs and services. Additional services can be implemented through community education, and partnerships with other community agencies such as schools and courts.

b. The Department sets the maximum hourly or flat rates for Prevention Services covered by Title IV-E federal funding and are based on the cost for services. When services are provided by private providers, payment must be made according to a contract authorized by the Child and Family Services Program Manager, based on the cost for services to be provided. Current information about services and rates can be obtained from Child and Family Services website.

05. Court-Ordered Services. These services primarily involve court-ordered investigations or assessments of situations where children are believed to be at risk due to child abuse, neglect, or abandonment.

06. Alternate Care (Placement) Services. Temporary living arrangements outside of the family home for children and youth who are victims of child abuse, neglect, or abandonment. The Department arranges and finances, in full or in part, out-of-home placements. Alternate care is initiated through either a court order or voluntarily through an out-of-home placement agreement. Payment will be made on behalf of a child placed in the licensed home of an individual or relative, a child care institution, a home licensed or approved by an Indian child's tribe, or in a state-licensed public child care institution accommodating no more than twenty-five (25) children. Payments may be made to individuals or to a child placement or child care agency.

07. Community Support Services. Services provided to a child and family in a community-based setting designed to increase the strengths and abilities of the child and family and to preserve the family whenever possible. Services include respite care and family preservation.

08. Interstate Compact on Out-of-State Placements. Where necessary to encourage all possible positive contacts with family, including extended family, placement with family members or others who are outside the state of Idaho will be considered. On very rare occasion the Department may contract with a residential facility out-of-state if it best serves the needs of the child and is at a comparable cost to facilities within Idaho. When out-of-state placement is considered in the permanency planning for a child, such placement will be coordinated with the respective interstate compact administrator according to the provisions of Section 16-2101, et seq., Idaho Code, the "Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children." Placements must follow all state and federal laws.

09. Independent Living. Services, including assessment and planning, provided to eligible youth to promote self-reliance and successful transition to adulthood.

a. Eligibility - Current Foster Youth. To be eligible for independent living services, the youth must:
i. Be fourteen (14) to twenty-one (21) years of age;

ii. Currently be under Department or tribal care and placement authority established by a court order or voluntary agreement with the youth's family, or be under a voluntary agreement for continued care if the youth is between eighteen (18) and twenty-one (21) years of age; and

b. Eligibility - Former Foster Youth. To be eligible for independent living services, the youth must:
i. Be a former foster youth who is currently under twenty-three (23) years of age; and

ii. Have been under Department or tribal care and placement authority established by a court order or voluntary agreement with the youth's family, or under a voluntary agreement for continued care after the youth has reached eighteen (18) years of age; and

iii. Have been placed in foster care or similar eligible setting for a minimum of ninety (90) days total after reaching sixteen (16) years of age or have aged out of foster care; or

iv. Be eighteen (18) to twenty-three (23) years of age, provide verification of meeting the Independent Living eligibility criteria in another state, and currently be a resident of Idaho.

c. Eligibility Limit. Once established as in Subsection 030.09.b. in this rule, a youth's eligibility is maintained up to their twenty-third birthday, regardless of whether they continue to be the responsibility of the Department, tribe, or be in foster care.

10. Adoption Services. Department services designed to promote and support the permanency of children with special needs through adoption. This involves the legal and permanent transfer of parental rights and responsibilities to the family assessed as the most suitable to meet the needs of the individual child. Adoption services seek to build the community's capacity to deliver adoptive services.

11. Administrative Services. Regulatory activities and services that assist the Department in meeting the goals of safety, permanency, health and well-being for children and families include:

a. Child care licensing;

b. Daycare licensing;

c. Community development; and

d. Contract development and monitoring.

Effective April 6, 2023

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