                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

FAMILY ASSESSMENT AND PLANNING TEAM; POWERS AND DUTIES (§ 2.2-5208)

The family assessment and planning team, in accordance with § 2.2-2648, shall
assess the strengths and needs of troubled youths and families who are approved
for referral to the team and identify and determine the complement of services
required to meet these unique needs.
		Every such team, in accordance with policies developed by the community policy
and management team, shall:

1. Review referrals of youths and families to the team;

2. Provide for family participation in all aspects of assessment, planning and
implementation of services;

3. Provide for the participation of foster parents in the assessment, planning
and implementation of services when a child has a program goal of permanent
foster care or is in a long-term foster care placement. The case manager shall
notify the foster parents of a troubled youth of the time and place of all
assessment and planning meetings related to such youth. Such foster parents
shall be given the opportunity to speak at the meeting or submit written
testimony if the foster parents are unable to attend. The opinions of the foster
parents shall be considered by the family assessment and planning team in its
deliberations;

4. Develop an individual family services plan for youths and families reviewed
by the team that provides for appropriate and cost-effective services;

5. Identify children who are at risk of entering, or are placed in, residential
care through the Children&#8217;s Services Act program who can be appropriately
and effectively served in their homes, relatives&#8217; homes, family-like
settings, and communities. For each child entering or in residential care, in
accordance with the policies of the community policy and management team
developed pursuant to subdivision 17 of &#xA7; 2.2-5206, the family assessment
and planning team or approved alternative multidisciplinary team, in
collaboration with the family, shall (i) identify the strengths and needs of the
child and his family through conducting or reviewing comprehensive assessments,
including but not limited to information gathered through the mandatory uniform
assessment instrument, (ii) identify specific services and supports necessary to
meet the identified needs of the child and his family, building upon the
identified strengths, (iii) implement a plan for returning the youth to his
home, relative&#8217;s home, family-like setting, or community at the earliest
appropriate time that addresses his needs, including identification of public or
private community-based services to support the youth and his family during
transition to community-based care, and (iv) provide regular monitoring and
utilization review of the services and residential placement for the child to
determine whether the services and placement continue to provide the most
appropriate and effective services for the child and his family;

6. Where parental or legal guardian financial contribution is not specifically
prohibited by federal or state law or regulation, or has not been ordered by the
court or by the Division of Child Support Enforcement, assess the ability of
parents or legal guardians, utilizing a standard sliding fee scale, based upon
ability to pay, to contribute financially to the cost of services to be provided
and provide for appropriate financial contribution from parents or legal
guardians in the individual family services plan;

7. Refer the youth and family to community agencies and resources in accordance
with the individual family services plan;

8. Recommend to the community policy and management team expenditures from the
local allocation of the state pool of funds; and

9. Designate a person who is responsible for monitoring and reporting, as
appropriate, on the progress being made in fulfilling the individual family
services plan developed for each youth and family, such reports to be made to
the team or the responsible local agencies.

HISTORY: 1992, cc. 837, 880, § 2.1-754; 1995, c. 396; 1999, c. 669; 2001, cc.
437, 844; 2008, cc. 39, 170; 2015, c. 366.