ARM 37.87.1345. HOME AND COMMUNITY-BASED SERVICES FOR YOUTH WITH SERIOUS EMOTIONAL DISTURBANCE: CAREGIVER PEER-TO-PEER SUPPORT SPECIALIST SERVICES

(1) Caregiver peer-to-peer support services offer and promote support to the parent/guardian of the youth with SED. The services are geared toward promoting self-empowerment of the parent, enhancing community living skills and developing natural supports. These services include: (a) empowering parents to make informed independent choices in order to develop a network for information and support from others; (b) coaching parents in developing systems advocacy skills in order to take a proactive role in their youth's treatment and to obtain information and advocate with the school system; and (c) assisting parents in developing supports including formal and informal community supports. (2) Caregiver peer-to-peer support services are provided by appropriate community agencies with the capacity to offer this service to the parent/guardian of the youth with SED. (3) The provider of caregiver peer-to-peer support specialist services must: (a) ensure that any employee providing caregiver peer-to-peer services is a family member who has cared for a youth with SED while the youth was receiving services in the children's mental health system. The person must have experience in the direct day-to-day care of a youth with SED; (b) verify the youth is currently not enrolled as a participant in the Home and Community-Based Services Program for Youth with SED; (c) be knowledgeable of the children's mental health system as well as about other community resources; and (d) ensure that any employee providing caregiver peer-to-peer services has attended a wraparound facilitation training sanctioned by the department or has been trained by someone within the community agency who has attended a wraparound facilitation training sanctioned by the department.