Section 316.140 Compliance with the Client Case Planning Requirements

Section 316

TITLE 89: SOCIAL SERVICES

CHAPTER III: DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES

SUBCHAPTER a: SERVICE DELIVERY

PART 316 ADMINISTRATIVE CASE REVIEWS AND COURT HEARINGS

SECTION 316.140 COMPLIANCE WITH THE CLIENT CASE PLANNING REQUIREMENTS

Section 316.140  Compliance

with the Client Case Planning Requirements

a)         The Department shall develop a monitoring and reporting

mechanism to evaluate the extent of compliance with its client case planning

requirements.  At minimum, the Department shall monitor:

1)         the permanency goal for each youth in care;

2)         the planned date of achievement of the permanency goal;

3)         the extent of progress toward the permanency goal; and

4)         the actual date the permanency goal was achieved.

b)         In

the case of any youth in care who is placed in a qualified residential

treatment program for more than 12 consecutive months or 18 nonconsecutive

months (or, in the case of a youth in care who has not attained age 13, for

more than 6 consecutive or nonconsecutive months), the Department shall

maintain the following documentation in the youth in care's case plan and make

it available for State or federal inspection or review:

1)         the

most recent version of the evidence and documentation specified in paragraph 4

of 42 U.S.C. 675(c)(4), which was reviewed at the most recent ACR or circuit

court permanency hearing and supports the continuing need for the QRTP,

treatment or services, the preparation for return home or another placement;

and

2)         the

signed approval of the head of the Department for the continued placement of

the child in that setting (42 U.S.C. 675a(c)(5)).