Current through Register Vol. 49, No. 18, September 16, 2024
PURPOSE: This amendment updates and clarifies terminology
throughout the rule.
(1) A medical,
psychological, and social history shall be developed for each youth by the
service coordinator. Areas to be considered in developing this history are
listed as follows:
(A) Medical History.
Special medical needs shall be evaluated to determine if such needs can be met
by Division of Youth Services (DYS). If the needs can be met by DYS, then they
should be identified, treated and explained in meaningful terms as to the
impact they may have on the treatment process;
(B) Psychological History. If a youth's
psychological history reveals the need for additional assessment, the following
areas may be evaluated through formal or informal testing:
1. Intellectual functioning;
2. Educational achievement;
3. Screening for organic
impairment;
4. Drug abuse
screening; and
5. Behavioral
observation and personal interview. This information shall be gathered through
personal contact with parents, guardians, teachers, juvenile court staff, and
relevant others. This will assist the service coordinators in their efforts to
properly match the youth with the service category to which they may be
assigned; and
(C) Social
History.
1. An evaluation of relevant past
history should include retrieval and evaluation of any pertinent information in
social histories, court records, school files, etc.
2. An evaluation of the present environment
should include pertinent information concerning home, school and community
conditions having an effect on classification.
(2) After developing an adequate individual
history, the service coordinator should determine services most appropriate as
itemized in the following Division of Youth Services (DY S) continuum:
(A) Community Based. Services provided with
supervision to maintain the youth in their own home or community
placement;
(B) Community-Based
Residential. When community-based services do not meet the needs of the youth,
community-based residential services are provided in DY S group homes or
non-DYS group home settings such as, special contractual residential services;
and
(C) Moderate/Secure Residential
Treatment. When community-based or community-based residential services do not
meet the needs of the youth or the community, services are provided to the
youth in an appropriate moderate/secure residential treatment
facility.
(3) To be
eligible for community-based services as provided in subsections (2)(A) and (B)
of this rule, the youth must meet the following guidelines:
(A) Have the ability to acceptably control
themselves in an open community environment where supervisory controls are
minimal;
(B) Be willing to
participate in a community program; and
(C) Prior or committing offenses cannot be
such that community reaction to the youth's immediate return to the community
would negate any benefit the child might receive from community
placement.
(4) General
guidelines for classification and initial assignment of youth to a
moderate/secure residential treatment facility are listed as follows:
(A) There are no known community services
presently available that will effectively provide for the youth's
needs;
(B) Direct intervention
through residential treatment would increase the likelihood of successful
community placement; and
(C)
General community safety issues have been considered.
*Original authority: 219.036, RSMo 1975, amended
1993,
