Current through Vol. 42, No. 1, September 16, 2024
(a)
Child's individualized service plan
(ISP) requirements. Per Section 1-4-704 of Title 10A of the Oklahoma
Statutes (10A O.S. § 1-4-704), each ISP specifically provides for the
child's safety per state and federal law, and clearly defines what actions or
precautions will or may be necessary to provide for the child's safety and
protection. Forms 04KI005E, Child's Individualized Service Plan (ISP);
04KI012E, Individualized Service Plan (ISP); 04KI004E, Placement Provider
Information; and 04KI014E, Individualized Service Plan (ISP) Progress Report,
are the components of the case plan that comprise the child's ISP. The
information contained in at least one of the reports includes:
(1) the child's history, including
identification of the problems or conditions leading to the deprived child
adjudication;
(2) identification of
the specific services to be provided to the child including, but not limited
to:
(A) educational;
(B) vocational education;
(C) medical; and
(D) drug or alcohol use or abuse treatment,
or counseling, or other treatment services;
(3) upon the court's request, the child's
most recent available health and educational records including:
(A) the names and addresses of the child's
health and educational providers;
(B) the child's grade-level
performance;
(C) the child's school
records;
(D) the child's
immunization records;
(E) the
child's known medical problems, including any known communicable
diseases;
(F) the child's
medications; and
(G) any other
relevant health and education information;
(4) a schedule of the frequency of services
and the means by which delivery of the services is assured or, as necessary,
the proposed means by which support services or other assistance is provided to
enable the parent or the child to obtain the services;
(5) the name of the child welfare (CW)
specialist assigned to the case;
(6) a projected date for the completion of
the ISP;
(7) performance criteria
that measures the child's progress toward completion of the ISP including, but
not limited to, time requirements for achieving objectives and addressing the
identified problems;
(8) the name
and business address of the attorney representing the child;
(9) when the child is placed outside of the
home:
(A) the sequence and time requirements
for services to be provided to the child and when the child is placed in foster
care, the services to be provided to the foster parent to facilitate the
child's return home or to another permanent placement; and
(B) a description of the child's placement
and explanation of whether the placement is the least restrictive, placement
available, and in as close proximity as possible to the child's parent or legal
guardian's home when the case plan is reunification, and how the placement is
consistent with the child's best interests and special needs;
(10) a description of the
successful adulthood plan for the child 14 years of age or older specifying how
the objectives will be met including:
(A)
education, vocational, or employment planning;
(B) health care planning and medical
coverage;
(C) transportation
including, when appropriate, assisting the child in obtaining a driver
license;
(D) money
management;
(E) planning for
housing;
(F) social and
recreational skills; and
(G)
establishing and maintaining connections with the child's family and
community;
(11) when the
child is in placement due solely or in part to the child's behavioral health or
medical health issues, diagnostic and assessment information, specific services
relating to meeting the child's applicable behavioral health and medical care
needs, and desired treatment outcomes;
(12) a plan and schedule for regular and
frequent visitation for the child and each child's parent or legal guardian and
siblings, unless the court has determined that visitation even when supervised
would be harmful to the child; and
(13) a plan for ensuring the child's
educational stability while the child is in out-of-home placement, including:
(A) assurances the child's placement
considers the appropriateness of the current educational setting and the
proximity to the school in which the child was enrolled at the time of
placement; and
(B) when
appropriate, an assurance that the Oklahoma Department of Human Services (DHS)
coordinated with appropriate local educational agencies to ensure the child
remains in the school in which the child was enrolled at the time of placement;
or
(C) when remaining in the school
in which the child was enrolled at the time of placement is not in the child's
best interests, assurances by DHS and the local educational agencies to provide
immediate and appropriate enrollment in a new school with all of the child's
educational records provided to the school; and
(14) the permanency plan for the child, the
reason for selection of the plan, and a description of the steps taken by DHS
to finalize the plan. When the permanency plan is adoption or legal
guardianship, DHS describes, at a minimum, child-specific recruitment efforts,
such as relative searches conducted and the use of state, regional, and
national adoption exchanges to facilitate the child's orderly and timely
placement, whether in or outside of the state.
(b)
Child's ISP amended when child
committed for inpatient behavioral health or substance use or abuse
treatment. Per 10A O.S. § 1-4-704, when the child is committed for
inpatient behavioral health or substance use or abuse treatment per the
Inpatient Mental Health and Substance Abuse Treatment of Minors Act, the ISP is
amended as necessary and appropriate including, but not limited to,
identification of the treatment and services to be provided to the child upon
the child's discharge from inpatient behavioral health or substance use or
abuse treatment.
Added at 18 Ok Reg
3067, eff 7-12-01; Amended at 20 Ok Reg 935, eff 5-12-03; Amended at 21 Ok Reg
871, eff 4-26-04; Amended at 27 Ok Reg 1092, eff 3-26-10 (emergency); Amended
at 27 Ok Reg 1865, eff 7-1-10; Amended at 30 Ok Reg 389, eff
7-1-13