200.575 Family preservation services programs.
"Family preservation services" means programs that: <br>(1) Follow intensive, home-based service models with demonstrated effectiveness in
reducing or avoiding the need for out-of-home placement;
(2) Provide such services that their operation results in lower costs than would out-of-
home placement;
(3) Employ specially trained caseworkers who shall:
(a) Provide at least half their services in the family's home or other natural
community setting;
(b) Provide services to no more than four (4) families at any one (1) time; <br>(c) Provide direct therapeutic services available twenty-four (24) hours per day
for an average of at least forty-five (45) days per family;
(d) Aid in the solution of practical problems that contribute to family stress so as
to effect improved parental performance and enhanced functioning of the <br>family unit;
(e) Arrange for additional assistance, including but not limited to, housing, child
care, education, and job training, emergency cash grants, state and federally <br>funded public assistance, and other basic support needs; and
(f) Supervise any paraprofessionals or "family aides" made available to provide
specialized services or skills to manage everyday problems and better provide <br>and care for its children.
(4) Have available moneys to be spent at the caseworker's discretion to enhance the
success of the intervention.
Effective: July 13, 1990 <br>History: Created 1990 Ky. Acts ch. 265, sec. 1, effective July 13, 1990.
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