(a) Non-funded Level B placements are provided by faith-based residential agencies that provide the equivalent to foster home placements for children requiring a home-like environment with a full-time house parent couple.
(b) Funded contracted Level B placements are provided by the Murrow Indian Children's Home and meet the placement preferences required by the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA).
(c) Non-funded and funded contracted Level B services include:
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(1) group treatment for each child, as needed, that focuses on maintenance issues and daily living matters;
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(2) individual treatment for each child, as needed;
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(3) active teaching and redevelopment of the child's basic living and social skills, both on-site and in the community. At minimum, the focus is on the restoration of skills for:
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(A) personal health and hygiene;
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(B) maintenance of the living environment, including food preparation;
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(C) money management;
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(D) job skills readiness, acquisition, and retention;
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(E) community awareness and mobility, including the use of community resources; and
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(F) socialization skills and techniques, including communication;
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(4) developing and implementing policy and procedures for delivery of independent living (IL) skills training to youth, using an approved curriculum for teaching IL skills;
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(5) assisting in the provision of federally mandated IL services that include coordinating with the Child Welfare (CW) county of jurisdiction worker to ensure:
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(A) the Daniel Memorial or Ansell-Casey Life Skills assessment is completed on each youth age 16 or older and implementing the IL plan produced by this assessment; and •
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(B) each youth age 15.5 or older attends one community contractor IL seminar each year; •
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(6) ensuring the youth applies for Medicaid upon his or her 18
th birthday, if the youth remains in placement in voluntary care to complete his or her secondary education per
OAC 340:75-6-115.9; and
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(7) providing 24-hour on-call and on-site crisis intervention and behavior management services to each child, as needed.
(d) Contracted Level B placements are provided in a setting licensed as a child-placing agency group home or residential child care facility that is not located in a hospital, either medical or psychiatric, or a psychiatric residential treatment center.
(e) The contractor:
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(1) does not provide 24-hour awake supervision of children;
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(2) may provide clothing for the child in Oklahoma Department of Human Services (OKDHS) custody. Emergency clothing authorizations may be accessed per
OAC 340:75-13-45; •
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(3) completes a written incident report describing any extreme behavioral incident or major rule violation, including the contractor's response, submits the original to the Children and Family Services Division (CFSD) Community-Based Residential Services programs manager and a copy to the child's CW county of jurisdiction worker, and files a copy in the child's case record;
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(4) meets the staffing guidelines defined in the OKDHS contract;
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(7) provides placements of children at no cost to OKDHS for non-funded contracted Level B services;
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(8) maintains documentation of each child's absent without leave (AWOL) and leave days set forth in the funded Level B contract and reports leave days on Form 04CB002E, CFSD Claim for Purchase of Residential care; and
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(9) is reimbursed by OKDHS at a fixed daily rate for funded Level B services. The fixed daily rate is a blend of Title IV-E funds, per eligibility of each child served, and state funds. The contractor submits Form 04CB002E for reimbursement to CFSD Administrative Services Unit.