RULE NO: RULE TITLE
63C-1.001: Nonjudicial Procedures for Families Needing Services
63C-1.002: Coordinating Children-In-Need-of Services Programs
63C-1.003: NULL

Notice is hereby given that the following changes have been made to the proposed rule in accordance with subparagraph 120.54(3)(d)1., F.S., published in Vol. 32 No. 45, November 9, 2006 issue of the Florida Administrative Weekly.

63C-1.001 Purpose and Scope.

No change.

Specific Authority 20.316, 985.64405, 985.601(7)404(8), 984.04(3) FS. Law Implemented 984.04(3), 985.601(7)404(8) FS. History– New__________.

 

63C-1.002 Nonjudicial Procedures Ffor Families Needing Services.

No change.

Specific Authority 20.316, 985.64405, 985.601(7)404(8), 984.04(3), FS. Law Implemented 984.04(3), 985.601(7)404(8) FS. History– New__________.

 

63C-1.003 Coordinating Children-in-Need-of-Services and Families-in-Need-of-Services Programs.

(1) The department shall coordinate its efforts with those of the Federal Government, state agencies, county and municipal government, private agencies and child advocacy groups to ensure the administering program and service delivery to children and families in need of services in the following ways:

(a) The department shall establish an agreement and work in concert with the Department of Children and Families to claim federal Title IV-E maintenance funds for children served in shelters contracted to provide services to children and families in need of services. The department shall also comply with federal and state mandated monitoring of such funds.

(b) Subject to appropriations, Tthe department shall establish programs and services for children in need of services and/families in need of services. The department may establish such programs and services by contracting with state and local providers to provide such services through a provider or providers. The department, through this provider or providers, shall be responsible for ensuring coordinated use of resources at the local, state and federal levels as relevant by providing support and oversight through technical assistance, training, interagency agreements, contract management, data collection and advocacy.

(c) Programs, whether established by the department or through a contracted provider, shall ensure that direct care staff meet the following minimum training requirements:

1. During their first year of employment, direct care staff must receive 80 hours of training, including a program orientation component, crisis intervention/safety, suicide prevention, CINS/FINS core training, Title IV-E procedures, and an in-service component.

2. Following the first year of employment, direct care staff must receive 24 hours of job-related training annually, which shall include refresher training on the use of available fire safety equipment, and training necessary to maintain current CPR and first aid certification.

(d) The department, with its provider or providers, shall be responsible for ensuring coordinated use of resources at the local, state and federal levels by providing support and oversight through technical assistance, training, interagency agreements, contract management, data collection and advocacy.

(e)(c) The department shall work with the local juvenile justice boards and councils throughout Florida’s judicial circuits to compile a list of available resources. These boards and councils shall coordinate local community resources.

(2) The department shall monitor programs for children in need of services and families in need of services under the process established in Rule Chapter 63L-1, F.A.C., and by the standards referenced therein. programs develop Quality Assurance Standards and conduct Quality Assurance site visits to ensure that children/families in need of services programs meet the following performance objectives:

(a) Provide a continuum of non-residential and residential services which have increasing levels of intensity and participation by youth and families.

(b) Provide services to youth and families that focus on resolution of family problems and conflicts in order to reduce or avoid the need for judicial intervention.

(c) Provide community outreach and education to the public at large and at-risk groups designed to increase public awareness of the needs of troubled youth and families and the services offered by children/families in need of services programs.

(d) Provide safe, humane and therapeutic temporary residential care for youth with a focus on family reunification or permanency in living arrangements.

(e) Provide follow-up, short-term aftercare services and/or referrals to longer term community services to address family reunification and presenting problems.

Specific Authority 20.316, 985.64405, 985.601(7)404(8), 984.04(3), FS. Law Implemented 984.04(3), 985.601(7)-(8)404(8) FS. History– New__________.