Mississippi QRTP Program Requirements

Mississippi QRTP Program Requirements 1. QRTP’s shall be licensed and nationally accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF), the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO), the Council on Accreditation, or others approved by the Secretary. 2. QRTPs shall have an MDCPS approved trauma informed approach applicable to the population of youth being served in which all employees, volunteers, interns, and independent contractors within a QRTP must be trained in that trauma informed approach. MDCPS has identified Trust- Based Relational Intervention (TBRI) as its trauma informed approach of choice. Any other model must be deemed evidenced based according to the Family First Prevention Services Act Clearinghouse and approved by MDCPS. In addition, organizations shall have a trauma informed treatment model that addresses services of the youth’s and family’s clinical needs. 3. QRTP shall have registered or licensed nursing and clinical staff who: a. Provide care within the scope of their practice as defined by state law; b. Are available twenty-four (24) hours a day and seven (7) days a week; c. Are accessible on-site or face-to-face to meet the youth’s clinical and/or medical needs. Note: QRTPs will be required to have nursing and clinical staff accessible in person or via telephone 24/7. These staff can be contract staff who can come on-site at any time if the child’s needs warrant face-to-face interaction from these staff. 4. QRTP’s should facilitate and document family participation in the child’s treatment with consideration for the child/youth’s safety and development needs. The treatment should be family driven with both the family and the child included in all aspects of care (when in the best interest of the child). Documentation of family involvement shall include: a. Facilitation of regular contact between the child and family including siblings and all attempts to do so; b. Ways in which family was actively involved and any support provided to the family of youth in residential treatment program; c. Plans to provide outreach and six(6) months of aftercare support for the child and the family must be documented and maintained in the youth’s case file; (services may be provided directly or via partnerships with Partner Providers in close proximity to youth’s home); d. Monthly documentation for six (6) months verifying aftercare support services to be kept in youth’s file. e. All outreach with any known biological family and fictive kin of the child, how this outreach is made, and maintenance of contact information for any known biological family and fictive kin of the child. 5. The discharge policy shall apply to QRTPs according to Pt. 310, Ch. 7.