LAC 67:V.203. Limitation of Funds for Treatment

A. The purpose of establishing limits on the duration of formal therapy is to encourage the more effective use of available funds and achieve consistency between delivery of treatment and program policy which calls for short term service provision and timely achievement of permanency goals. B. Treatment of child protection and family services clients and for clients in Services to Parents (SP) cases in the Foster Care Program will be time-limited and goal directed. No individual, family, or other treatment for these clients shall exceed six months. The only exception is for SP cases. In SP cases, two extensions of up to three months each may be authorized if it appears, based on a review of a detailed treatment plan and current case information, that the goal of reunification or adoption can reasonably be achieved during this time. Treatment in SP cases involving children whose permanency goal is other than reunification or adoption shall not exceed six months.