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4th Annual Maryland CASA Conference
March 20, 2010
Presented by:
Shelley L. Tinney, Executive Director
Maryland Association of Resources for Families and Youth
AKA :Group Homes
� Alternative Living Units
� Emergency Shelter
� Group Home
� Mother Infant programs
� Non-public residential education facilities
� Programs for medically fragile children
� Programs for pregnant adolescents
� Psychiatric Respite Care
� State operated residential education facilities
� Secure care
� Therapeutic Group Homes
� Wilderness Programs
� This category does not include
� Foster care
� Youth camps certified by DHMH
� Programs subject to a certificate of need: Residential Treatment Centers
� A nonpublic residential school not approved to serve youth with disabilities (boarding schools)
� Juvenile detention facilities
� Residential facilities operated by DJS
� Provides residential services for children who, because of a developmental disability, require specialized living arrangements;
� Admits not more than three children; and
� Provides 24 hours of supervision per unit, per day.
� Licensed by DHMH/DDA
� Solely for the temporary care of children for not more than 60 days; or
� A self-contained structured shelter care program licensed by the Department of Juvenile Services for the temporary care of children for not more than 90 days.
� Licensed by DHR or DJS
� Provides residential services for youths such as care, diagnosis, training, education, and rehabilitation; and
� A group living experience.
� Licensed by DHR, DJS, DHMH/DDA
� Short term (30-90 days) programs where diagnostic evaluations are done for the purpose of determining what services are needed by a youth.
� Licensed by DHR.
� There are only 4 of these programs in the state.
� Provide special services and residential care to children who are mothers and their infants
� Provides comprehensive prenatal care, dental care, delivery services, pediatric services, and day care arrangements for pregnant minors
� Licensed by DHR
� Residential facility of a nonpublic school program approved under COMAR 13A.05.02.12 for the placement of students with disabilities.
� Licensed by DHR
� Includes The Linwood Center and Benedictine School
� Residential programs on hospital grounds in which children discharged from inpatient psychiatric hospitalizations receive transition services in anticipation of placement in a residential treatment or community-based setting.
� Licensed by DHR
� Only 2 in the state, Sheppard Pratt and Brooklane
� Employs locked doors or other physical means to prevent egress by alleged or adjudicated delinquent children
� Licensed by DJS
� No privately operated secure programs currently in the state
� Maryland School for the Deaf and the Maryland School for the Blind
� Residential components licensed by DHR
� Small private group home that provides residential child care as well as access to a range of diagnostic and therapeutic mental health services for children and adolescents who have mental disorders.
� Requires more intensive levels of supervision and clinical services than general group homes.
� Licensed by DHMH/OHCQ
� Oversight by MHA and CSA
� Facilities and activities are related to nature as much as possible in a site that is left essentially in its natural state; and
� Where living and program quarters and activities are integrated into the natural environment.
� None currently licensed in the state
� 24-hour substitute care program, operated by a licensed child placement agency or local department of social services, for children with a serious emotional, behavioral, medical, or psychological condition.
� Licensed by DHR
� DJS beginning to use Multi-Dimensional TFC
� To prepare and assist individuals 16 through 20 years old to make the transition from foster care to living as independent citizens
� Provides services and supervision for children who live in their own apartment
� Licensed by DHR
� Psychiatric institution that provides campus-based intensive and extensive evaluation and treatment of children and adolescents with severe and chronic emotional disturbances who require a self-contained therapeutic, educational, and recreational program in a residential setting.
� Youth must meet medical necessity criteria to be admitted.
� Licensed by DHMH/OHCQ
� Must be accredited by JCAHO
� There are 9 private and 2 state operated RTCs.
� State Children Youth and Families Information System administered by the Governor’s Office for Children
� https://scyfis.cleverex.com/ocyf/en/ocyf/HomePublic.asp
� Searchable database of all Residential Child Care, Treatment Foster Care and Independent Living Programs