Transcript Placement and case management as it relates to adults in OHC

SUPERVISED INDEPENDENT LIVING
PLACMENTS
Placement and case management as it
relates to adults in OHC
Case management activities must ensure:
⁻ life skill development,
⁻ self-advocacy (empowering youth as the leaders and key decision
makers of their future),
⁻ fostering supportive relationships and connecting youth to
community supports.
Caseworkers and agencies must:
⁻ Consider that the youth are now legal adults and their own guardian.
⁻ Be mindful that the independent living services plan remains a
significant aspect of the youth’s permanency plan; recognizing that
an appropriate continuum of services ultimately leads to a healthy
and productive adulthood upon discharge from care.
Placement and case management as it
relates to adults in OHC
• The goal of extended care is to increase the
likelihood of a successful transition to
independence for youth most at risk.
• Allows for a more natural progression to
independence with the support of caring
adults.
• Allows for the natural trial and error of youth
decision-making while benefitting from a
safety net.
Placement and case management
as it relates to adults in OHC
Extending care and court jurisdiction beyond age 18 is a continuation
of all components of placement and care responsibilities including:
• maintaining safe and appropriate placements,
• permanency planning, permanency plan reviews and hearings, and
• life skills development and activities that will lead to a successful transition to
adulthood.
Youth placed under a court order or Voluntary-Transition-toIndependent Living Agreement will:
• Have the opportunity to remain in their current placement setting when feasible
and appropriate
• Have a plan for the gradual transition to a more independent living setting while
completing their secondary education.
[Agencies should consider providing a graduated progression of structure and supervision to greater
levels of freedom and independence and making placement decisions in partnership with the youth
and based on their interests and desires, allowing youth to move from a higher level of supervision
to expanded independence while supporting placement stability.]
Placement and case management
as it relates to adults in OHC
Placements must include specific components to
mindfully plan for the youth’s transition to
independence (Appendix A of Policy Memo):
• Development of basic self-sufficiency skills;
• housing stability;
• supports and resources to promote financial
stability; and
• a cultivation of a sense of self-worth and
understanding of healthy relationships.
Supervised Independent Living
Placements
Definition:
• “Placement and Care Responsibility” through a county or the
Department which provides the youth the ability to live in a wide
range of settings.
• The agency with placement and care responsibility is responsible for
supervision of the youth, maintains case management, and any
associated ongoing services for the duration of the court order or
Voluntary.
• The agency provides financial assistance for living expenses.
• Supervisory contact with the youth can range from moderate (2-3
times a week based on stability of the youth and the length of time
the youth has been involved in Supervised Independent Living) to
intense (where daily contact with the youth is necessary for a
successful placement.
Supervised Independent Living
Placements
• SIL is a combination of independent placements and programming
including:
• Highly integrated system of living arrangements that provides youth ages
17-21 a safe place to live independently (or semi-independently);
• Professional services that provides youth 24-hour access to caring adults;
• Connections to community resources.;
• Activities that allow for development and practicing of life skills;
• Securing of resources needed to maintain housing throughout adulthood.
SIL placement and case management
as it relates to adults
Case workers play a critical role in SIL programs.
Responsibilities include:
– Assessing youth as individuals so that their unique needs may be met
most effectively.
– Provide flexibility, individualization, nurturing, guidance through
positive role modeling, and consistent coordination.
– Facilitation of collaborative partnerships in the community in order to
support youth’s access to needed services and resources as they learn
to live on their own.
– Focus on core components of
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self-sufficiency,
housing stability,
financial stability,
self-worth, and
healthy relationships
Supervised Independent Living
• Apartment, shared housing
– where a provider owns/operates the complex and provides
supervision and support to youth.
• Apartment, shared housing
– An independent apartment program in which the youth or
the provider leases the apartment, the youth lives
independently with decreasing levels of supervision and
support from the provider.
• Tenant, Room in a house independent apartment
– in which the youth leases a room in a house from a
landlord/homeowner
Supervised Independent Living
Maintenance payments will continue to cover the cost of (and the cost of
providing) daily needs:
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When setting an appropriate monthly SIL maintenance rate for a child, the county or
Department shall complete the Supervised Independent Living Rate Setting form (DCF-F-5031-E),
and may include the following cost categories:
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Rent/Renter’s Insurance
Food Budget
Furnishings (bed, table, dresser, etc)
Household Supplies
Utilities (Electricity, Heat, Water and Sewer)
Telephone
Clothing
School Supplies
Personal Incidentals
Other (not IVE reimbursable)
The county or Department are not to exceed a monthly maintenance rate of $3,000 and rates
are to be based on actual costs.
If a youth shares an apartment with another individual, the costs shall be distributed among the
occupants commensurate with their portion of the total amount and must be re-determined if
an additional occupant moves into a shared space if the costs are not already based on a
proportion of the total amount.