Current through all regulations passed and filed through September 16, 2024
(A)
For all children receiving services through a public
children services agency (PCSA) who are placed in a qualified residential
treatment program (QRTP), the PCSA is to assemble a family and permanency team,
and may use an existing team, for the child pursuant to rule
5101:2-42-12 of the
Administrative Code,
(1)
The family and permanency team is to consist of all
appropriate family members, relatives, and kin of the child, as well as
appropriate professionals who are a resource to the family of the child, such
as teachers, medical or mental health providers who have treated the child, or
clergy.
(2)
In the case of a child who has attained age fourteen,
the family and permanency team is to include the members that are selected by
the child pursuant to rules
5101:2-38-05 and
5101:2-38-07 of the
Administrative Code.
(B)
For all children
placed in a qualified residential treatment program (QRTP) pursuant to rule
5101:2-9-42 of the
Administrative Code, the following information is to be documented within the
family case plan:
(1)
The reasonable and good faith effort of the PCSA to
identify and include all individuals on the child's family and permanency team
pursuant to rule
5101:2-42-12 of the
Administrative Code.
(2)
All contact information for the members of the family
and permanency team, as well as contact information for other family members
and fictive kin who are not part of the family and permanency
team.
(3)
Evidence that the meetings of the family and permanency
team, including meetings related to the assessment, are held at a time and
place convenient for the family.
(4)
If reunification
is the goal, evidence demonstrating that the parent from whom the child was
removed provided input on the members of the family and permanency
team.
(5)
Evidence that the required assessment is determined in
conjunction with the family and permanency team.
(6)
The placement
preferences of the family and permanency team relative to the assessment that
recognizes children should be placed with their siblings unless there is a
finding by the court that such placement is contrary to their best
interest.
(7)
If the placement preferences of the family and the
permanency team and child are not the placement setting recommended by the
qualified individual pursuant to rule
5101:2-42-12 of the
Administrative Code, the reasons why the preferences of the team and child were
not recommended.
(8)
Any determination by a qualified individual pursuant to
rule 5101:2-42-12 of the
Administrative Code that a child should not be placed in a foster family home,
and the reasons why the needs of the child cannot be met by the family of the
child or in a foster family home.
(9)
The approval or
disapproval of the placement in a QRTP pursuant to rule
5101:2-42-12 of the
Administrative Code.
(C)
The PCSA is to
document evidence of the continued need for QRTP placement during each status
review and permanency hearing pursuant to rule
5101:2-42-12 of the
Administrative Code.
