1. Assessing a child for placement. The Child Welfare (CW) county of jurisdiction worker and supervisor assess each child's treatment needs per OAC 340:75-6-40.3. When the child's treatment needs can no longer be met in the child's own home, relative home, or foster home and the child does not meet the medical necessity criteria for psychiatric treatment, the CW county of jurisdiction:
(1) worker seeks treatment for the child in a community-based residential care (CBRC) placement;
(2) worker makes the placement request on KIDS Placement Recommendation screen; and
(3) supervisor approves the placement request, within five working days of the decision for CBRC placement.
2. Authorization of a placement request. Children and Family Services Division Placement Section:
(1) makes the referral for placement of and authorizes the placement of a child in Oklahoma Department of Human Services custody in a more restrictive CBRC placement.
(A) Exceptions to referral and authorization by the Placement Section are:
(i) residential diagnostic and evaluation services (D & E), 20-day time limited assessment services;
(ii) residential intensive treatment services (ITS), 72-hour short-term crisis stabilization services;
(iii) non-funded Level B placements with faith-based providers, such as Oklahoma Baptist Homes for Children, United Methodist Children's Home, and Sand Springs Children's Home; and
(iv) funded and non-funded residential maternity services that serve pregnant youth.
(B) Authorization and referral are made by the respective contract liaison; and
(2) maintains the waiting list of children for placement into CBRC placements when the need for placement of children exceeds the availability of sufficient CBRC placements.
3. Voluntary care. The CW county of jurisdiction worker and supervisor determine whether the youth in CBRC placement is eligible for voluntary care after age 18, and if the eligible youth requests voluntary care, the CW county of jurisdiction worker completes requirements per OAC 340:75-6-115.9.
4. Case assignment and responsibility. The CW county of jurisdiction worker:
(1) retains primary case assignment of the child's case record. The CW county of jurisdiction worker's supervisor makes a secondary case assignment to the county of placement, per OAC 340:75-1-26; and
(2) is responsible for the child's permanency plan, per OAC 340:75-6-31 and 340:75-6-85.
5. Assessing the child prior to adjudication.
(1) The CW county of jurisdiction worker and supervisor assess the child's treatment needs.
(2) When the child's treatment needs cannot be met in a family setting and the child does not meet the medical necessity criteria for psychiatric treatment, the CW worker may request approval of the court to place the child in a residential facility prior to the child's adjudication as deprived.