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20-47-703. Findings.
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20-47-703. Findings.
The General Assembly finds:
(1) The system for providing behavioral healthcare services to children, youth, and their families should ensure that those services are appropriate, cost-effective, and provided in the least restrictive settings;
(2) Behavioral health and other services identified in § 20-47-502(10) are provided to children and youth by various departments, agencies, and providers at both the state and local level, often without appropriate or effective collaboration;
(3) Providing effective services for children with the most severe needs requires many areas of expertise and shared responsibility among the aforementioned departments, agencies, and providers; and
(4) The system of behavioral health care should be built upon the foundation established by the Child and Adolescent Service System Program principles identified in § 20-47-503. The guiding principles for establishing the system of care should be:
(A) The system should be family-driven, child-centered, and youth-guided and should include family participation at all levels of the services system;
(B) The system should be community-based with decision-making responsibility and management at the regional and local levels; and
(C) The system should be culturally competent, with agencies, programs, and services responsive to the cultural and individual differences of the populations they serve.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 20-47-703
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20-47-703. Findings.
The General Assembly finds:
(1) The system for providing behavioral healthcare services to children, youth, and their families should ensure that those services are appropriate, cost-effective, and provided in the least restrictive settings;
(2) Behavioral health and other services identified in § 20-47-502(10) are provided to children and youth by various departments, agencies, and providers at both the state and local level, often without appropriate or effective collaboration;
(3) Providing effective services for children with the most severe needs requires many areas of expertise and shared responsibility among the aforementioned departments, agencies, and providers; and
(4) The system of behavioral health care should be built upon the foundation established by the Child and Adolescent Service System Program principles identified in § 20-47-503. The guiding principles for establishing the system of care should be:
(A) The system should be family-driven, child-centered, and youth-guided and should include family participation at all levels of the services system;
(B) The system should be community-based with decision-making responsibility and management at the regional and local levels; and
(C) The system should be culturally competent, with agencies, programs, and services responsive to the cultural and individual differences of the populations they serve.
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20-47-502. Definitions.
As used in this subchapter:
(1)(A) “Case management” means those efforts that ensure that necessary services for the child and family are obtained and monitored.
(B) Such efforts shall include coordination across agencies for evaluations, the provision of services based on assessments and evaluations that result in the development of an interagency service plan, the review for adequacy of services through client progress, and maintaining cooperation among agencies;
(2)(A) “Case review” means a multiagency effort to design and provide a service delivery plan for difficult-to-serve children who may require unusual services or service configurations.
(B) When utilizing a group process for reaching service delivery decisions, the group shall be composed of those who carry sufficient authority to ensure timely provision of services;
(3) “CASSP” means the Child and Adolescent Service System Program;
(4) “Child with emotional disturbance” means an individual who has been diagnosed with a mental, behavioral, or emotional disorder of a long-term nature under the age of eighteen (18) or under the age of twenty-one (21) if program services began before the age of eighteen (18):
(A) Who is exhibiting inappropriate emotional, interpersonal, or behavioral problems within the home, preschool program, school, or community given his or her age, intellectual level, and cultural background;
(B) Whose degree of dysfunction is at least disruptive and often disabling;
(C) Whose problems persist after efforts to deal with the problems have been made by significant others in the child's social environment;
(D) Who meets specific criteria established by the Child and Adolescent Service System Program Coordinating Council; and
(E) Who has multiagenc
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 20-47-502
Stored review status: Historical 2020-11-06 source release; later amendments not reconciled; machine-extracted, not independently legally reviewed; source heading status: text_in_historical_source. The source passage cites 20-47-502. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.
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20-47-503. System of care.
The following guiding principles shall be incorporated into the system of care:
(1) Services shall be child-centered and family-centered and give priority to keeping children with their families;
(2) Services shall be community-based, with decision-making responsibility and management at the regional and local levels;
(3) Services shall be comprehensive, addressing the child's physical, educational, social, and emotional needs;
(4) Agency resources and services shall be shared and coordinated;
(5) Services shall be provided in the least restrictive setting consistent with effective services and as close to home as appropriate;
(6) Services shall be culturally and ethnically sensitive;
(7) Services shall address the unique needs and potential of each child and shall be sufficiently flexible to meet highly individualized child and family needs;
(8) Services shall promote early identification and intervention; and
(9) Services shall be designed to protect the rights of children.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 20-47-503
Stored review status: Historical 2020-11-06 source release; later amendments not reconciled; machine-extracted, not independently legally reviewed; source heading status: text_in_historical_source. The source passage cites 20-47-503. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.