Minnesota Administrative Rules
Agency 196 - Human Services Department
Chapter 9535 - PROGRAM GRANTS; PERSONS WHO ARE MENTALLY ILL
FAMILY COMMUNITY SUPPORT SERVICE
Part 9535.4000 - APPLICABILITY AND SCOPE

Subpart 1. Applicability.

Parts 9535.4000 to 9535.4070 establish standards and procedures for the provision of family community support services to children with severe emotional disturbance and their families as authorized by Minnesota Statutes, sections 245.487 to 245.4889. Parts 9535.4000 to 9535.4070 are intended to comply with, and must be read in conjunction with, Minnesota Statutes, sections 245.461 to 245.4887 and chapter 256G. The county board of each county is responsible for administering, planning, monitoring, and evaluating family community support services under parts 9535.4000 to 9535.4070 as community social services.

Subp. 2. Family community support services to children and their families; scope.

Minnesota Statutes, section 245.487, subdivision 3, requires the commissioner to create and ensure a comprehensive and coordinated set of mental health and other necessary services for children. Minnesota Statutes, section 245.4873, requires coordination of the development and delivery of mental health services for children to occur on the state and local levels and, in subdivision 3, requires coordination of the local system of care for children. Family community support services, a component of the local system of care, are children's community-based mental health services that are to be provided by a county board, directly or under contract, to a child who resides in the county and the child's family as part of Minnesota's children's mental health service system. Family community support services are designed to provide within the community the kind of support that historically has more commonly been provided to children in residential treatment. Minnesota Statutes, section 245.4873, subdivision 4, requires the child's case manager designated by the local agency to develop the child's family community support plan in a manner that reflects coordination among the local service system providers serving the child.

Family community support services must be provided in a manner that is consistent with the core values set forth by the Child Adolescent Service System Program (CASSP) in "A System of Care for Severely Emotionally Disturbed Children and Youth" is incorporated by reference and published by CASSP Technical Assistance Center, Georgetown University Child Development Center, 3800 Reservoir Road, NW, Washington, D.C. 20007 (Washington, D.C., 1986). It is not subject to frequent change. A copy is available at the Legislative Reference Library, 6th Floor, 100 Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., St. Paul, MN 55155. This publication and the values and system it endorses are referred to as "the CASSP System of Care."