The family living experience is the core
treatment service to which other individualized services can be added, as
appropriate to meet the eligible recipient's needs.
(1) The TFC parental responsibilities
include, but are not limited to:
(a) meeting
the recipient's base needs, and providing daily care and supervision;
(b) participating in the development of
treatment plans for the eligible recipient by providing input based on his or
her observations;
(c) assuming the
primary responsibility for implementing the in-home treatment strategies
specified in the eligible recipient's treatment plan;
(d) recording the eligible recipient's
information and documentation of activities, as required by the TFC agency and
the standards under which it operates;
(e) assisting the eligible recipient with
maintaining contact with his or her family and enhancing that
relationship;
(f) supporting
efforts specified by the treatment plan to meet the eligible recipient's
permanency planning goals;
(g)
reunification with the recipient's family. The treatment foster parents work in
conjunction with the treatment team toward the accomplishment of the
reunification objectives outlined in the treatment plan;
(h) assisting the eligible recipient obtain
medical, educational, vocational and other services to reach goals identified
in treatment plan;
(i) ensuring
proper and adequate supervision is provided at all times. Treatment teams
determine that all out-of-home activities are appropriate for the recipient's
level of need, including the need for supervision; and
(j) working with all appropriate and
available community-based resources to secure services for and to advocate for
the eligible recipient.
(2) The treatment foster care agency provides
intensive support, technical assistance, and supervision of all treatment
foster parents. The following services must be furnished by both TFC I and II
agencies unless specified for either I or II. Payment for performance of these
services is included in the TFC agency's reimbursement rate:
(a) facilitation, monitoring and documenting
of treatment of TFC parents initial and ongoing training;
(b) providing support, assistance and
training to the TFC parents;
(c)
providing assessments for pre placement and placement to determine the eligible
recipient's placement is therapeutically appropriate;
(d) ongoing review of the eligible
recipient's progress in TFC and assessment of family interactions and
stress;
(e) ongoing treatment
planning as defined in Subsection G of
8.321.2.9 NMAC and treatment team
meetings;
(f) provision of
individual, family or group psychotherapy to recipients as described in the
treatment plan. The TFC therapist is an active treatment team member and
participates fully in the treatment planning process;
(g) family therapy is required when client
reunification with their family is the goal;
(h) ensuring facilitation of age-appropriate
skill development in the areas of household management, nutrition, physical and
emotional health, basic life skills, time management, school attendance, money
management, independent living, relaxation techniques and self-care techniques
for the eligible recipient;
(i)
providing crisis intervention on call to treatment foster parents, recipients
and their families on a 24-hour, seven days a week basis including 24-hour
availability of appropriate staff to respond to the home in crisis
situations;
(j) assessing the
family's strengths, needs and developing a family service plan when an eligible
recipient's return to his or her family is planned;
(k) conducting a private face-to-face visit
with the eligible recipient within the first two weeks of TFC I placement and
at least twice monthly thereafter by the treatment coordinator;
(l) conducting a face-to-face interview with
the eligible recipient's TFC parents within the first two weeks of TFC I
placement and at least twice monthly thereafter by the treatment
coordinator;
(m) conducting at a
minimum one phone contact with the TFC I parents weekly; phone contact is not
necessary in the same week as the face-to-face contact by the treatment
coordinator;
(n) conducting a
private face-to face interview with the eligible recipient's TFC II parent
within the first two weeks of TFC II placement and at least once monthly
thereafter by the treatment coordinator;
(o) conducting a face-to-face interview with
the eligible recipient's TFC II parent within the first two weeks of TFC II
placement and at least once monthly thereafter by the treatment coordinator;
and
(p) conducting at a minimum one
phone contact with the TFC II parents weekly; phone contact is not necessary in
the same week as the face-to-face contact by the treatment
coordinator.