This regulation specifies the conditions under which family community support services must be terminated for a child with severe emotional disturbance. Termination occurs when a mental health professional determines the child no longer meets eligibility criteria, when the child and family mutually agree goals have been met, when the child or legal representative refuses further services, or when the child turns 18. Upon a professional determination of ineligibility, the provider must notify the child and parent/legal representative of their right to appeal.
View official source9535.4028 TERMINATION OF FAMILY COMMUNITY SUPPORT SERVICES. Family community support services to a child with severe emotional disturbance shall terminate when one of the events listed in items A to D occurs. § A. A mental health professional who has provided mental health services to the child furnishes a written opinion that the child no longer meets the eligibility criteria in Minnesota Statutes, section 245.4871 , subdivision 6. Upon receipt of the mental health professional's written opinion that the child no longer meets the eligibility criteria, the family community support service provider must inform, as described in part 9535.4023 , the child and the child's parent or legal representative of the ability to appeal the decision. § B. The child or the child's parent or legal representative as described in part 9535.4023 , together with the child's family community support service provider and the child's case manager, if any, mutually decide that the child no longer needs the family community support service identified in the child's individual family community support plan because the child has achieved the goals and outcomes specified in the plan. § C. The child or the child's parent or legal representative as described in part 9535.4023 refuses further family community support services. § D. The child becomes age 18.