(a) The following shall be established for the purposes of developing and implementing an individual service plan: Within available appropriations, a child specific team may be developed by the family of a child or youth with complex behavioral health service needs which shall provide for family participation in all aspects of assessment, planning and implementation of services and may include, but need not be limited to, family members, the child or adolescent if appropriate, clergy, school personnel, representatives of local or regional agencies providing programs and services for children and youths, a family advocate, and other community or family representatives. The team shall designate one member to be the team coordinator. The team coordinator shall, with the consent of the parent, guardian, youth or emancipated minor, compile the results of all assessments and evaluations completed prior to the preparation of an individual service plan that document the service needs of the child or youth, make decisions affecting the implementation of an individual service plan, and make referrals to community agencies and resources in accordance with an individual service plan. The care coordinator shall not make decisions affecting the implementation of the individual service plan without the consent of the parent, guardian, youth or emancipated minor, except as otherwise provided by law.

(b) The provisions of this section shall not be construed to grant an entitlement to any child or youth with behavioral health needs to receive particular services under this section in an individual service plan if such child or youth is not otherwise eligible to receive such services from any state agency or to receive such services pursuant to any other provision of law.

(P.A. 97-272, S. 2; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 00-2, S. 7, 53; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 01-2, S. 45, 69; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 01-9, S. 129, 131; P.A. 06-196, S. 123; P.A. 14-187, S. 19.)

History: June Sp. Sess. P.A. 00-2 amended Subsec. (a)(2) to modify composition of case review committees to include parents of children or adolescents with mental illness or emotional disturbance, and amended Subsec. (a)(3) to modify composition of coordinated care committee to include a parent of a child or adolescent with mental illness or emotional disturbance, effective July 1, 2000; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 01-2 amended Subsec. (a) by substituting “individual service plan” for “individual system of care”, providing that child specific team may also be developed by the family of a youth with complex behavioral health service needs, in lieu of adolescent at placement risk, and that such team shall provide for family participation in all aspects of assessment, planning and implementation of services, requiring team coordinator, with consent of the parent, guardian, youth or emancipated minor, to compile results of all assessments and evaluations completed prior to preparation of an individual service plan that document the service needs of the child or youth and to make referrals to community agencies and resources in accordance with an individual service plan, prohibiting care coordinator from making decisions affecting the implementation of the individual service plan without the consent of the parent, guardian, youth or emancipated minor, deleting Subdiv. (2) re case review committees and deleting Subdiv. (3) re development of a coordinated care committee, deleted existing Subsec. (b) re a report to the General Assembly on findings and recommendations of programs for children and youth at placement risk, redesignated existing Subsec. (c) as Subsec. (b), substituting “with behavioral health needs” for “at placement risk” and “individual service plan” for “individual system of care” therein, and redesignated existing Subsec. (d) as Subsec. (c), inserting the phrase “, in consultation with the Commissioner of Social Services,” therein, effective July 1, 2001; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 01-9 revised effective date of June Sp. Sess. P.A. 01-2 but without affecting this section; P.A. 06-196 made a technical change in Subsec. (a), effective June 7, 2006; P.A. 14-187 deleted former Subsec. (c) re regulations, effective June 11, 2014.