Sec.17a-212a-3. Program and placement planning

(a) The regional or training school director shall assure that program and placement planning are coordinated by the interdisciplinary team, regional placement committee or forensic review committee to respond to the needs of the person as identified through the risk review and other evaluations and assessments.

(b) Program and placement plans, and other strategies and interventions developed in response to the risk review, shall be transmitted to the forensic review committee for review and oversight of implementation of program, placement, service and support plans, and fiscal accountability.

(c) Following review and consultation by the forensic review committee, the regional or training school director shall assure that actions are initiated to implement the plans, placement, interventions or strategies developed to address identified serious threats or changes in the assessment of serious threats as well as other needs of the person.

(d) Program and placement planning shall be conducted in accordance with departmental policy with an emphasis on assuring the delivery of supports and services in the least restrictive, most integrated manner, promotion of independence and quality of life, which is commensurate with identified serious threat or changes in the assessment of serious threat.

(e) The department provides program and placement oversight through contract services and case management. Clients of the department whose program and placement development are a result of a risk or forensic review process, shall receive enhanced oversight by the forensic review committee and forensic coordinator.

(f) When program placement planning results in a determination to serve, or continue to serve, a person in a non-community based residential facility, a review committee established by the commissioner shall monitor and oversee the process to assure that risk factors are properly considered in decision making which results in placement in a non-community based setting and are regularly reviewed annually thereafter.

(g) Programs and placements for persons who are evaluated as posing serious threats in the absence of appropriate support and supervision may be available, in appropriate cases, through the department's cooperative placement account, as established and funded in the appropriations act for the state of Connecticut, in accordance with established protocols.

(Adopted effective September 29, 2003)