Initial Assessment and Service Plan – The Partner Provider must complete an initial

Initial Assessment and Service Plan – The Partner Provider must complete an initial assessment and individual service plan on each child admitted - to be conducted by a fully licensed mental health professional with 14 days of youth’s placement and reviewed with MDCPS worker. 1. Collaboration. In developing and implementing the written service plan for the child and the child’s family, the Partner Provider must collaborate with: a. All appropriate staff members. b. Appropriate MDCPS staff. c. Outside parties that may help support the child's needs including but not limited to: i. Education services. ii. Extracurricular activities coaches. iii. MDCPS Independent Living staff, etc. d. Parents or legal guardians, and e. The child, if age appropriate. 2. Contents of Service Plan. The Partner Provider’s individual service plan for the child must include the following: a. The date the plan is approved; b. An assessment of the child’s and family’s strengths and needs; c. Defined goals, staff assignments, time schedules and steps to be taken to meet the goals; d. The plan for family visitation, including siblings, unless prohibited by the court; e. An alternate permanency plan in the event a determination is made by MDCPS that reunification is not in the best interest of the child; f. A plan regarding estimated length of placement, discharge, and aftercare; g. A scheduled meeting no more than ninety (90) days from date of approval of initial plan to review or amend plan; h. A signed copy of MDCPS’s Client’s Rights and Responsibilities for the appropriate age group of the child; i. Services to the child by the Partner Provider; j. Services to the family by the Partner Provider; k. A plan that is maintained by the Partner Provider to provide transportation for youth to and from school, work, and extracurricular activities; and l. A plan for youth fourteen (14) and above that have spent at least one (1) day in care for facilitating participation in the MDCPS Transition to Independent Living Program (TILP), including transportation to and from TILP activities. The plan must be signed by the child’s parent or legal guardian, Partner Provider program director, and assigned MDCPS specialist. A copy of the signed plan must be given to each signing party, with the original maintained by the MDCPS specialist. The Partner Provider must maintain contact with MDCPS. If appropriate within the parameters of a court order, the Partner Provider must maintain contact with the child’s parent(s) and should encourage the parent(s) to communicate and visit the child in accordance with the service plan.