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Effective: 7/20/2022

4.11.4 Change in LOC Assignment

Legal Authority

Introduction

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Practice Guidance

Procedure

The SSW and family’s team:

  1. Consult to determine whether the child is to be moved to a placement that better meets his/her service needs and supports his/her permanency goal when there is a change in the child’s level of care (LOC) assignment; 
  2. Are to consider the generally detrimental effect of moving a child from one placement to another; 
  3. Completes a prevention plan within ninety (90) days of a change in LOC that is designed to: 
    1. Focus on the individual needs of the child when the LOC is changed to a two (2) or lower; and 
    2. ​Move a child from a private child caring (PCC) residential setting into a foster home.

Documents

Revisions

​7/20/2022 3. A. Focus on the individual needs of the child when the LOC is changed to a three (3) two (2) or lower;