Current through September 24, 2024
A. In order to be
admitted into Intensive Community Outreach and Recovery Services, children and
youth must meet the criteria outlined in this rule.
B. Intensive Community Outreach and Recovery
serves children and youth with a serious emotional/behavioral disturbance as
listed in the most current edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of
the American Psychiatric Association which seriously impairs their functioning
in community living. Priority is given to children, youth and their families
who lack access to office-based services and/or who have experienced multiple
acute hospital and/or residential care stays, who are at risk of out-of-home
placement or have been recommended for residential care, and for those children
and youth for whom traditional outpatient care has not been
successful.
C. Children and youth
with functional impairments as demonstrated by at least one (1) of the
following conditions:
1. Child or youth has a
serious emotional/behavioral disturbance as listed in the most current edition
of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric
Association which impairs his/her functioning in community living.
2. Child or youth is at-risk for out-of-home
placement or use of out-of-home therapeutic resources without community-based
intervention.
3. Child or youth
has difficulty demonstrating success in the home and educational environment
due to emotional, social, and/or behavioral challenges.
4. Child or youth has had difficulty
effectively utilizing traditional office-based or school-based outpatient
services (office-based individual and/or group therapy, day treatment services,
school-based therapies).
5. Family
members of the child or youth have needs to be met and/or the family is
experiencing multiple system involvement.
6. Youth has high risk or recent history of
juvenile justice involvement (e.g., arrest, incarceration) due to behavioral
problems attributed to the youth's emotional and/or behavioral
problems.
D. Discharges
from the Intensive Community Outreach and Recovery Team occur when the
child/youth's family and service personnel mutually agree to the termination of
services. This must occur when children/youth:
1. Have successfully reached individually
established goals for discharge, and when the child/youth's family and service
personnel mutually agree to the termination of services. 2. Have successfully
demonstrated an ability to function in the areas of home, school and other
entities, and social interactions without ongoing assistance from the agency
provider, without significant relapse when services are withdrawn, and when the
child or youth's family requests discharge and the agency provider employees
mutually agree to the termination of services.
3. Move outside the geographic area of the
Intensive Community Outreach and Recovery Team's responsibility. In such cases,
the Intensive Community Outreach and Recovery Team must arrange for transfer of
mental health service responsibility to an Intensive Community Outreach and
Recovery Service or another agency provider. The team must maintain contact
with the person until this service transfer is implemented.
4. Decline or refuse services and request
discharge, despite the team's best efforts to develop an acceptable Individual
Service Plan with the child/youth.
Section
41-4-7
of the Mississippi Code, 1972, as Amended
