Parallel & Follow-Up Services. Describe how the plans will identify strategies for providing or obtaining parallel services in the home and community to prepare for the return of the child and for delivering follow-up services to maintain the community placement once it occurs. .At the same time as environmental interventions are being provided during the time a child is living in a residential unit or a treatment xxxxxx home to help understand and replace the problematic behaviors that have contributed to (or been generated by) prior disruptions, the bridging staff will be working with the family and community to help them prepare a foundation that will effectively accommodate the child, while reflecting and reinforcing the helping strategies that are being developed by the milieu staff and CFT. The coordination of services and interventions will focus on taking the child to the community rather than on bringing the family to the unit so as to prevent a sense of artificial behavior improvement that can occur inside the structure of the unit but which usually evaporates to varying degrees when community transition occurs. For children who do not have a reunification destination identified, Family Finding will begin at enrollment into Open Doors. This involves using electronic search engines, mining case files, door-to-door neighborhood search and interviews with the child. The found family will be prepared to receive the child concurrently with the residential treatment of the child as described above.
Parallel & Follow-Up Services. Describe how the plans will identify strategies for providing or obtaining parallel services in the home and community to prepare for the return of the child or youth and for delivering follow-up services to maintain the community placement once it occurs. RBS plans of care are multi-modal and multi-environmental. At the same time as environmental interventions are being provided during the time a youth is living in the RBS unit or a treatment xxxxxx home to help understand and replace the habitual behaviors that have contributed to (or been generated by) prior disruptions, the CCT will be working with the family and community in parallel to help them prepare a landing pad that will effectively accommodate the youth, while reflecting and reinforcing the helping strategies that are being developed in the residential treatment center by the milieu and family engagement staff. If the youth‟s biological family is not a viable permanent placement, family finding options will be discussed as early as the enrollment meeting and will begin in xxxxxxx the day the youth is enrolled/placed in residential treatment. Furthermore, Family Finding efforts will identify multiple connections for the youth so that if the primary option ceases to be viable at any point during the arc of care the efforts move to the next option and very little time to reunification/adoption is lost. Targeted life and social skills development is critical to the long term success of the youth and skill development will be embedded in all aspects of the youths care. When the youth has transitioned to the community placement, the family will have access to an emergency response system created by VTC and VCSS and driven by the CCT, so that a staff member with whom the family is already familiar responds. There will be accommodations made in the staffing model so that the shift vacated by a VTC staff member responding in the community can be back-filled temporarily by additional staff. If psychiatric hospitalization is required during residential treatment or post discharge, the CCT facilitator will be the primary point of contact to ensure continuity of treatment and smooth re-integration into the current treatment setting post-hospitalization. The new MHSA funding allows for care coordination to continue while a youth is in the hospital, something that is currently not possible under the SB163 Wrap model. Arrangements have been made with the local hospitals (Loma Xxxxx University Medical center a...
