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Transition from Restrictive Placements

• Therapeutic/clinical interventions to address the service needs of the youth and family. Therapeutic interventions must be based on an evidence-based model such as Functional Family Therapy (FFT), Multisystemic Therapy (MST), Parenting with Love and Limits (PLL), etc.

• Home-based services including but not limited to the following:

• Home-based family therapy
• Case management services
• Home assessment
• Coordination of services, with special emphasis on education and employment services
• Educational transition services
• Vocational services
• Drug/alcohol screening & monitoring
• Conflict management
• Emergency/crisis services
• Child development education
• Domestic violence education
• Parenting education/training
• Family communication
• Assistance with transportation
• Family reunification
• Family assessment
• Community referrals and follow-up
• Behavior modification
• Budgeting/money management
• Other services as deemed appropriate based on the needs of the youth and family
• Services must include 24-hour access to crisis intervention seven days a week and must be provided in the family’s home, at a community site, or in the office.
• Services must include ongoing risk assessment and monitoring family/parental progress.
• Services must include development of goals with measurable outcomes.
• Provider must complete an intake interview with the family within five calendar days after receipt of the referral.
• Provider must provide home-based therapy services to the family during the time the youth is incarcerated to identify and address any issues that may hinder the youth’s success upon his/her return home.
• Provider must maintain monthly contact with the youth’s placement agency during the time the youth is in the more restrictive placement to ensure that the transition plan remains consistent between both agencies.
• Provider must participate in an initial meeting with the youth’s FCM or probation officer, youth, and family within 48 hours of release.
• Provider must complete the Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths (CANS) assessment within 30 days of release from the correctional facility, if not completed at the time of discharge from the more restrictive placement, and every six months thereafter. If no CANS was completed prior to the youth being admitted to the more restrictive placement, the service provider is responsible for completing the assessment within 2 weeks of the placement in a less restrictive placement. .
• Provider must conduct a minimum of two (2) face to face visits per week with the youth during the first thirty (30) days of release from a more restrictive placement. The level of supervision after that period of time will be determined by the team but will never be less than 1 face to face visit per week.
• When appropriate the provider may require the youth to submit to at least one random drug screen within fourteen (14) days of changing from a more restrictive placement. This may be done through probation or another approved vendor.
• Provider must maintain frequent contact with the FCM/probation officer and notify the FCM/probation officer in writing of non-compliance issues. The provider must also develop a recommendation for the FCM/probation officer as to a suitable therapeutic intervention.
• The family will be the focus of service and services will focus on the strengths of the family and build upon these strengths.
• Services must be family focused and child centered.
• Services must include intensive in-home skill building and after-care linkage.
• Services include providing monthly progress reports in a format approved by the Court, participation in team meetings, and providing requested testimony and/or presence at court hearings.
• Staff must respect confidentiality. Failure to maintain confidentiality may result in immediate termination of the service agreement.
• The caseload of the therapist/case manager will include no more than ten (10) workload units per therapist. Youth being supervised in the community are weighted at 1 workload unit.

• Knowledge of community resources and ability to work as a team member
• Understanding regarding issues that are specific and unique to youth transitioning back into the community following a period of incarceration

• Includes client specific face-to-face contact with the identified client/family during which services as defined in the applicable Service Standard are performed.
• Includes crisis intervention and other goal directed interventions via telephone with the identified client family.
• Includes probation meetings or case conferences initiated and approved by Probation for the purposes of goal directed communication regarding the services to be provided to the client/family.

1. A completed, signed, and dated referral form authorizing services
2. A court order ordering the TRP program
3. Documentation of regular contact with the referred families/children
4. Written reports no less than monthly or more frequently as prescribed referral by the source.