200.575 Family preservation services programs. - Kentucky Statutes

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200.575 Family preservation services programs. "Family preservation services" means programs that:
(1) Follow intensive, home-based service models with demonstrated effectiveness in reducing or avoiding the need for out-of-home placement; (2) Provide such services that their operation results in lower costs than would out-of-home placement; (3) Employ specially trained caseworkers who shall: (a) Provide at least half their services in the family's home or other natural community setting; (b) Provide services to no more than four (4) families at any one (1) time;
(c) Provide direct therapeutic services available twenty-four (24) hours per day for an average of at least forty-five (45) days per family; (d) Aid in the solution of practical problems that contribute to family stress so as to effect improved parental performance and enhanced functioning of the
family unit; (e) Arrange for additional assistance, including but not limited to, housing, child care, education, and job training, emergency cash grants, state and federally
funded public assistance, and other basic support needs; and (f) Supervise any paraprofessionals or "family aides" made available to provide specialized services or skills to manage everyday problems and better provide
and care for its children. (4) Have available moneys to be spent at the caseworker's discretion to enhance the success of the intervention. Effective: July 13, 1990
History: Created 1990 Ky. Acts ch. 265, sec. 1, effective July 13, 1990.