                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

COMMUNITY POLICY AND MANAGEMENT TEAMS; POWERS AND DUTIES (§ 2.2-5206)

The community policy and management team shall manage the cooperative effort in
each community to better serve the needs of troubled and at-risk youths and
their families and to maximize the use of state and community resources. Every
such team shall:

1. Develop interagency policies and procedures to govern the provision of
services to children and families in its community;

2. Develop interagency fiscal policies governing access to the state pool of
funds by the eligible populations including immediate access to funds for
emergency services and shelter care;

3. Establish policies to assess the ability of parents or legal guardians to
contribute financially to the cost of services to be provided and, when not
specifically prohibited by federal or state law or regulation, provide for
appropriate parental or legal guardian financial contribution, utilizing a
standard sliding fee scale based upon ability to pay;

4. Coordinate long-range, community-wide planning that ensures the development
of resources and services needed by children and families in its community
including consultation on the development of a community-based system of
services established under &#xA7; 16.1-309.3;

5. Establish policies governing referrals and reviews of children and families
to the family assessment and planning teams or a collaborative,
multidisciplinary team process approved by the Council, including a process for
parents and persons who have primary physical custody of a child to refer
children in their care to the teams, and a process to review the teams&#8217;
recommendations and requests for funding;

6. Establish quality assurance and accountability procedures for program
utilization and funds management;

7. Establish procedures for obtaining bids on the development of new services;

8. Manage funds in the interagency budget allocated to the community from the
state pool of funds, the trust fund, and any other source;

9. Authorize and monitor the expenditure of funds by each family assessment and
planning team or a collaborative, multidisciplinary team process approved by the
Council;

10. Submit grant proposals that benefit its community to the state trust fund
and enter into contracts for the provision or operation of services upon
approval of the participating governing bodies;

11. Serve as its community&#8217;s liaison to the Office of Children&#8217;s
Services, reporting on its programmatic and fiscal operations and on its
recommendations for improving the service system, including consideration of
realignment of geographical boundaries for providing human services;

12. Collect and provide uniform data to the Council as requested by the Office
of Children&#8217;s Services in accordance with subdivision D 16 of &#xA7;
2.2-2648;

13. Review and analyze data in management reports provided by the Office of
Children&#8217;s Services in accordance with subdivision D 18 of &#xA7; 2.2-2648
to help evaluate child and family outcomes and public and private provider
performance in the provision of services to children and families through the
Children&#8217;s Services Act program. Every team shall also review local and
statewide data provided in the management reports on the number of children
served, children placed out of state, demographics, types of services provided,
duration of services, service expenditures, child and family outcomes, and
performance measures. Additionally, teams shall track the utilization and
performance of residential placements using data and management reports to
develop and implement strategies for returning children placed outside of the
Commonwealth, preventing placements, and reducing lengths of stay in residential
programs for children who can appropriately and effectively be served in their
home, relative&#8217;s homes, family-like setting, or their community;

14. Administer funds pursuant to &#xA7; 16.1-309.3;

15. Have authority, upon approval of the participating governing bodies, to
enter into a contract with another community policy and management team to
purchase coordination services provided that funds described as the state pool
of funds under &#xA7; 2.2-5211 are not used;

16. Establish policies for providing intensive care coordination services for
children who are at risk of entering, or are placed in, residential care through
the Children&#8217;s Services Act program, consistent with guidelines developed
pursuant to subdivision D 22 of &#xA7; 2.2-2648; and

17. Establish policies and procedures for appeals by youth and their families of
decisions made by local family assessment and planning teams regarding services
to be provided to the youth and family pursuant to an individual family services
plan developed by the local family assessment and planning team. Such policies
and procedures shall not apply to appeals made pursuant to &#xA7; 63.2-915 or in
accordance with the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act or federal or
state laws or regulations governing the provision of medical assistance pursuant
to Title XIX of the Social Security Act.

HISTORY: 1992, cc. 837, 880; 1995, cc. 396, 696, 699, § 2.1-752; 1997, c. 347;
1999, c. 669; 2000, c. 937; 2001, cc. 190, 206, 844; 2002, cc. 585, 619; 2003,
c. 483; 2008, cc. 39, 170, 277; 2009, cc. 813, 840; 2014, c. 407; 2015, cc. 88,
305, 366; 2023, c. 373.