Section 390.1080 Social Services

Section 390

Section 390.1080 Social

Services

a)         The facility shall provide Social services, needed by the

resident. These services shall be provided to the residents by or with

consultation of a qualified social worker through the use of social work

methods directed toward: (B)

1)         Maximizing the social functioning of each resident.

2)         Enhancing the coping capacity of the resident or his family.

3)         Asserting and safeguarding the human and civil rights of the

residents and their families, and fostering the human dignity and personal

worth of each resident.

b)         The resident and his family shall be helped by social workers

during the evaluation process, which may or may not lead to admission, to

consider alternative services, based on the resident's status and salient

family and community factors, and to make a responsible choice as to whether

and when residential placement is indicated.

c)         Each resident shall be evaluated within 30 days of admission

regarding the need for such services and the results of such evaluation shall

be entered in the medical record.

d)         Social workers shall participate, when appropriate, in the

continuing interdisciplinary evaluation of individual residents for the

purposes of initiation, monitoring, and follow-up of individualized

habilitation programs.

e)         As appropriate during the developmentally disabled person's

admission to and while receiving services in the facility, the social worker

shall provide liaison between him, the facility, the family, and the community,

so as to help the staff to:

1)         Individualize and understand the needs of the resident and his

family in relation to each other.

2)         Understand social factors, including staff-resident

relationships, in the resident's day-to-day behavior.

3)         Prepare the resident for changes in his living situation

ll provide liaison between him, the facility, the family, and the community,

so as to help the staff to:

1)         Individualize and understand the needs of the resident and his

family in relation to each other.

2)         Understand social factors, including staff-resident

relationships, in the resident's day-to-day behavior.

3)         Prepare the resident for changes in his living situation.

f)         Social workers shall help the family to develop constructive

and personally meaningful ways to support the resident's experience in the

facility through:

1)         Collateral counseling concerned with problems associated with

changes in family structure and functioning.

2)         Referral to specific services, as appropriate.

3)         Help the family to participate in planning for the resident's

return to home or other community placement.

g)         The facility shall employ sufficient, appropriately qualified

staff, and necessary supporting personnel to carry out the various social

service activities to meet the program needs of the residents. (B)

h)         If the facility designates a social worker who does not meet

the definition of "qualified social worker" in Section 390.330, then

that person shall receive adequate consultation from a person who meets the

definition of "qualified social worker" in Section 390.330.