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and their families and provided by CSSD and DCF. Among the candidates for CSSD’s IICAPS programs are court-involved children with diagnoses that reflect severe emotional or behavioral impairment and for whom more traditional outpatient approaches have not been, or are not likely to be, successful. Also appropriate recipients of IICAPS services are children for whom psychiatric hospitalization is otherwise likely, and those who are discharging from psychiatric or secure confinement and need outpatient psychiatric treatment to successfully return to, and remain in, the community. These children require support as they re-integrate into their communities or await placement in another treatment facility. The model creates a working partnership between the child, the family and the treatment team, through assessment, facilitating timely access to psychological and psychiatric evaluation, development and implementation of a comprehensive treatment plan, and providing time limited family, individual and couples psychotherapy, and crisis response 24 hours/7 days per week. Services include school consultation, parent guidance and training in behavioral management techniques, clinically informed case management and case coordination, multi-systems collaboration and coordination, and vocational services. E. FWSN Judicial Process There are instances when a family is referred to community services or a Family Support Center and the program determines that the family can no longer benefit from its services. When this occurs, the juvenile probation officer may, after consultation with the Juvenile Probation Supervisor, file a petition and begin the court process. The family is summoned to appear in court. The child, accompanied by a parent or guardian, will initially appear at a plea hearing and admit or deny the allegation that s/he is a child from a family with service needs. If the child agrees to admit the allegations, or if, after a hearing, the court finds by clear and convincing evidence that the facts alleged in the FWSN petition are true, the child is adjudicated as a child from a FWSN. If the facts alleged are not proven, the case is dismissed. Prior to adjudication, if appropriate, the court may divert the case for up to six months, with the option for the court to allow an additional three month extension, to allow the family to be referred to communitybased services. If the child’s and family’s issues are satisfactorily resolved, the petition may be dismissed and erased. 16 In certain instances, the court may vest temporary custody of a child in a suitable person or agency, usually DCF, if the court finds that the child may harm him/herself or run away, or the child needs to be held for another jurisdiction under the “Interstate Compact on Juveniles.” 17 16 When a petition is erased, the effect is as if the case never was filed with the court. There is no automatic erasure. 17 The “Interstate Compact on Juveniles” incorporated by reference into the Connecticut General Statutes (§46b-151h) legally joins all jurisdictions and makes each state responsible for the proper supervision or return of juveniles, delinquents and status offenders who are on probation or parole and who have absconded, escaped or run away from supervision and control and have endangered their own safety and 41
Once the child is adjudicated as a child from a Family with Service Needs, the court then proceeds to the dispositional phase of the case. Chart 4 describes the petition process through the point of adjudication. Chart 4 COURT PROCESS Family Summoned to Court Contempt for FTA Court Educational Evaluation performed at BOE expense Refer to Community Based or Other Services Prior to Adjudication – Not Adjudicated FWSN Dismissed & Erased Adjudicated FWSN Temporary Custody Vested if: • child may harm him/herself • child may run away • need to hold for other jurisdiction (Interstate Compact) 10 Day OTC Hearing There are a number of dispositional options available to the court following an adjudication of a child as a child from a Family with Service Needs. These include: • referring the family for voluntary services • placing the child under the supervision of a juvenile probation officer, • referring the child to a pregnancy or STD program, or • committing the child to DCF for placement in a residential setting but only if such a placement is found to be the least restrictive alternative. The court may issue written orders, or conditions, that the child must follow which will include a written warning of the consequences of violating the court’s orders. These court orders regulate the future conduct of the child and may include attending a the safety of others. Under the Compact, each state is responsible for the safe return of juveniles who have run away from home and in doing so, have left their state of residence. 42
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Most of the assessed children score
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Appendix V Highlights of Other Prog
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Appendix VII Evaluation of FWSN sys
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