200.585 Duty of Department for Community Based Services. - Kentucky Statutes

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200.585 Duty of Department for Community Based Services. (1) The Department for Community Based Services shall be the lead administrative agency for family preservation services and may receive funding for the
implementation of these services. The Department for Community Based Services
shall:
(a) Provide the coordination of and planning for the implementation of family preservation services; (b) Provide standards for family preservation services programs;
(c) Monitor these services to ensure they meet measurable standards of performance as set forth in state law and as developed by the Department for
Community Based Services; and (d) Provide the initial training and approve any ongoing training required by providers of family preservation services. (2) The Department for Community Based Services may provide family preservation services directly or may contract with a private, nonprofit social service agency to
provide these services. In the event the department provides family preservation
services with state caseworkers, those caseworkers and cases shall be excluded for
the overall caseworker/case averages provided on a quarterly basis to the Legislative
Research Commission and the Governor's office under KRS 199.461. Family
preservation services caseworkers and cases shall be included in the report as a
separate category. (3) In the event a nonprofit social service agency is contracted by the Department for Community Based Services, to provide family preservation services, the contract
shall include:
(a) Requirements for provider acceptance of any client referred by the Cabinet for Health and Family Services for family preservation services; (b) Limitation of caseload to four (4) or fewer families per caseworker;
(c) Provision of twenty-four (24) hour crisis intervention services to families served by the program; (d) Provision for training of family preservation services staff to meet the following minimum standards:
1. Intensive training of not less than forty (40) hours to any therapist before
family preservation services clients are assigned. This training is to be
provided by individuals with recognized expertise regarding family
preservation services and is to concern itself with the required
knowledge skills, and techniques for success within the family
preservation services model; 2. A plan for the continuing education of staff therapists after the initial
forty (40) hours; 3. Training of not less than twenty (20) hours for a paraprofessional family
aide before provision of services without the direct supervision of a
family preservation services caseworker; (e) Provide for and conduct internal program evaluation and cooperate with external evaluation as directed by the Department for Community Based
Services; (4) To qualify for continued funding under subsection (3) of this section, an agency contracting to provide family preservation services shall demonstrate an annual
success rate of seventy-five percent (75%) in avoiding out-of-home placement six
(6) months after the cessation of family preservation services. Effective: June 20, 2005
History: Amended 2005 Ky. Acts ch. 99, sec. 206, effective June 20, 2005. -- Amended 2000 Ky. Acts ch. 14, sec. 29, effective July 14, 2000. -- Amended 1998 Ky. Acts
ch. 426, sec. 170, effective July 15, 1998. -- Created 1990 Ky. Acts ch. 265, sec. 3,
effective July 13, 1990.