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