CMS-07-021/023 - Los Angeles County Department of Children and ...

(e) The CONTRACTOR shall attend all COUNTY Team Decision-making
and Permanency Planning conferences. The County Worker will
provide the CONTRACTOR with advance notice of the conferences
whenever possible.
(f) The CONTRACTOR shall facilitate the implementation of any
permanent placement plan determined by COUNTY for a Placed
Child under the CONTRACTOR’S care.
2.1.2 Needs and Services Plan/Quarterly Report Procedures:
(a) The CONTRACTOR shall use the standardized Needs and Services
Plan/Quarterly Report template that DCFS, Probation, CCLD, and the
CONTRACTORS have developed collaboratively. (Exhibit A-V).
CONTRACTOR shall complete the initial Needs and Services Plan
portion of the Needs and Services Plan/Quarterly Report within 30
days of the child’s placement. CONTRACTOR shall forward the initial
Needs and Services Plan to the County Worker within 10 days of
completion.
(b) Probation uses the PROB 1385, Probation Foster Care Case Plan, for
the Needs and Services Plan (Exhibit A-V). DCFS uses the DCFS
709, Foster Child’s Needs and Case Plan Summary (Exhibit A-V), in
the development of the Needs and Services Plan portion of the Needs
and Services Plan/Quarterly Report template. The PROB 1385 and
the DCFS 709 are not to serve as the Needs and Services Plan itself.
(c) The CONTRACTOR shall ensure that: (1) the Placed Child, age and
maturity permitting, and his/her authorized representative are offered
the opportunity to participate in the development of and any
modifications to the Needs and Services Plan in accordance with Title
22, Division 6, Chapter 5, Sections 84068.2(d) and 84068.3(b); and
(2) the County Worker gives written approval of the Needs and
Services Plan and any modifications thereto in accordance with Title
22, Division 6, Chapter 5, Sections 84068.2(d)(1) and 84068.3(b)(1).
(d) Efforts to comply with the above requirements shall be documented in
the Placed Children’s case files. Placed Children, who are accepted
as a sibling group and placed together, shall remain together unless
otherwise approved by the County Worker. For sibling groups placed
with the CONTRACTOR in different GH sites, the CONTRACTOR
shall document in the quarterly report records efforts to reunite the
siblings at the same GH site or the reasons it is inappropriate.
(e) The Needs and Services Plan portion of the Needs and Services
Plan/Quarterly Report template shall be updated 90 days from the
date of placement and every 90 days thereafter.
(f) Modifications to the Needs and Services Plan portion of the Needs
and Services Plan/Quarterly Report template shall address: (1) the
Placed Child’s need for continuing Services; (2) the need for
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