2011 Kentucky Revised Statutes CHAPTER 199 PROTECTIVE SERVICES FOR CHILDREN - ADOPTION 199.801 Procedure for placement of children who are in custody of department -- Statewide and district placement coordinators -- Cases of unmet need -- Information and recommendations -- State resource plan -- Assistance in developing facilities services plan.
KY Rev Stat § 199.801 (1996 through Reg Sess) What's This?
199.801 Procedure for placement of children who are in custody of department -Statewide and district placement coordinators -- Cases of unmet need -Information and recommendations -- State resource plan -- Assistance in
developing facilities services plan.
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The department shall establish a procedure throughout the state that is designed to
determine and expedite the placement of children who are in the custody of the
department. The procedure shall utilize a statewide placement coordinator and
district placement coordinators who may be state employees or employees of a
contracted entity, and who shall be assigned and located in each of the department's
districts.
Upon determining that a child shall be removed from the current living
arrangement, the social service worker with responsibility for the child shall contact
the district placement coordinator to facilitate the placement. In consultation with
the social service worker, the district placement coordinator shall determine the
appropriate type of placement according to the child's circumstances and needs and
shall attempt to locate the appropriate placement within the child's home county.
The living arrangement and placement selected for the child shall be the type of
facility that is determined to be the best alternative for the child that is in the closest
proximity to the child's home county.
If the type of placement that best suits the child's needs is not available in the child's
home county, the district placement coordinator shall document the circumstance as
an unmet need and may seek a placement in another county located within the home
district of the child.
If the type of placement that best suits the child's needs is not available in the child's
home district, the district placement coordinator shall document the circumstance as
an unmet need and may seek a placement in surrounding districts by contacting the
statewide placement coordinator.
If the type of placement that best suits the child's needs is not available in the
districts surrounding the child's home district, the district placement coordinator
shall document the circumstance as an unmet need and may seek a placement in any
district within the state by contacting the statewide placement coordinator.
If the type of placement that best suits the child's needs is not available within the
state, the statewide placement coordinator shall contact the commissioner of the
department or the commissioner's designee to explore placement options.
The statewide placement coordinator and every district placement coordinator shall
compile information that identifies the unmet needs for their jurisdiction, and shall
submit the data and recommendations for meeting the unmet needs to the
commissioner of the department.
The commissioner shall develop a state placement resource plan that identifies areas
of unmet need and strategies to meet the need. The plan shall be used to guide and,
if necessary, restrict the development of new facilities, the expansion of existing
facilities, and the geographic location of placement alternatives.
(10) The commissioner and the statewide planning coordinator shall assist the Statewide
Strategic Planning Committee for Children in Placement, created in KRS 194A.146,
in the development of a statewide facilities services plan.
Effective: June 20, 2005
History: Amended 2005 Ky. Acts ch. 99, sec. 46, effective June 20, 2005. -- Amended
2000 Ky. Acts ch. 14, sec. 60, effective July 14, 2000. -- Created 1998 Ky. Acts
ch. 395, sec. 4, effective July 15, 1998.
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