PCN Information Item G: Engagement Activities: Short-term planned activities with the youth and caregiver to develop treatment alliance and rapport. Activities include, but are not limited to: enhancing the youth and/or caregiver’s motivation to participate in services, explaining recommended services, and providing education regarding value of services. Adherence to the recommended LOC and its importance in recovery are also explained. This service should not be provided in a group, and should be provided in accordance with confidentiality requirements. Family Partner Supports: Peer mentoring and support provided by Certified Family Partners to the primary caregivers of a child who is receiving mental health community services. This may include introducing the family to the treatment process; modeling self-advocacy skills; providing information, making referrals; providing non-clinical skills training; assisting in the identification of and community supports. Family Partners are the parent or LAR of a child or youth with a serious emotional disturbance and have at least one year of experience navigating a child-serving system (e.g. mental health, juvenile justice, social security, special education) as the LAR to that child or youth. (TAC Title 25 Part 1 Chapter 412 Subchapter G Division 1) Parent Support Group: Routinely scheduled support and informational meetings for the individual’s primary caregivers. Family Training: Training provided to the individual’s primary caregivers to assist the caregivers in coping and managing with the individual’s emotional disturbance. This includes instruction on basic parenting skills and other forms of guidance that cannot be considered rehabilitative skills training. Concurrent rehabilitative training should be identified as a separate encounter with the appropriate rehabilitative service code. Target: 10% or more of children and youth authorized to receive LOC 2, 3, 4 and YC shall receive Family Partner support services each client month, as defined by Engagement (H0025HATS), Family Partner (H0038HA), and Parent Support Group (H0025HAHQ) procedure codes, or other services identified by SERVER_TYPE_CD = K Note: For Medicaid clients, the “Non-Covered Medicaid TRR Services Form” must be completed and submitted to the LifePath UM Department for authorization of Family Partner Services.
PCN Information Item G: Engagement Activities: Short-term planned activities with the youth and caregiver to develop treatment alliance and rapport. Activities include, but are not limited to: enhancing the youth and/or caregiver’s motivation to participate in services, explaining recommended services, and providing education regarding value of services. Adherence to the recommended LOC and its importance in recovery are also explained. This service should not be provided in a group, and should be provided in accordance with confidentiality requirements. Family Partner Supports: Peer mentoring and support provided by Certified Family Partners to the primary caregivers of a child who is receiving mental health community services. This may include introducing the family to the treatment process; modeling self-advocacy skills; providing information, making referrals; providing non-clinical skills training; assisting in the identification of and community supports. Family Partners are the parent or LAR of a child or youth with a serious emotional disturbance and have at least one year of experience navigating a child-serving system (e.g. mental health, juvenile justice, social security, special education) as the LAR to that child or youth. (TAC Title 25 Part 1 Chapter 412 Subchapter G Division 1) Parent Support Group: Routinely scheduled support and informational meetings for the individual’s primary caregivers. Family Training: Training provided to the individual’s primary caregivers to assist the caregivers in coping and managing with the individual’s emotional disturbance. This includes instruction on basic parenting skills and other forms of guidance that cannot be considered rehabilitative skills training. Concurrent rehabilitative training should be identified as a separate encounter with the appropriate rehabilitative service code. Target: 10% or more of children and youth authorized to receive LOC 2, 3, 4 and YC shall receive Family Partner support services each client month, as defined by Engagement (H0025HATS), Family Partner (H0038HA), and Parent Support Group (H0025HAHQ) procedure codes, or other services identified by SERVER_TYPE_CD = K Note: For Medicaid clients, the “Non-Covered Medicaid TRR Services Form” must be completed and submitted to the LifePath UM Department for authorization of Family Partner Services.