Florida Administrative Code › 63 - DEPARTMENT OF JUVENILE JUSTICE › 63T - Transition › Chapter 63T-1 - REQUIRED TRANSITIONAL ACTIVITIES FOR RESIDENTIALLY COMMITTED YOUTH › Section 63T-1.004 - Residential Commitment Program

Current through Reg. 50, No. 138; July 16, 2024
(1) Transition
				Planning. When developing each youth's performance plan and throughout its
				implementation during the youth's stay, a residential commitment program shall
				ensure that the intervention and treatment team is planning for the youth's
				successful transition to the community upon release from the program. The
				intervention and treatment team shall intensify its transition planning as the
				youth nears his or her targeted release date as follows:
(a) Transition Conference. In a program with
				a length of stay over 90 days, the intervention and treatment team shall
				conduct a transition conference at least 60 days prior to the youth's targeted
				release date or 90 days for sex offenders. In any program with a length of stay
				of 90 days or less, the exit conference, addressed in paragraph
				  63T-1.004(1)(b), F.A.C., shall suffice to address all necessary pre-release
				transition activities.
1. The program director
				or designee, the intervention and treatment team leader, and the youth shall
				attend the transition conference. Although the program shall encourage other
				intervention and treatment team members to attend, those not attending shall
				provide written input to the team leader prior to the conference. If the
				youth's teacher is not an active intervention and treatment team member, the
				team leader shall invite the teacher to participate in the transition
				conference; however, if the teacher chooses not to attend, the team leader
				shall obtain the teacher's input prior to the conference. Additionally, the
				program shall invite the youth's JPO, post-residential services case manager,
				if different than the JPO, the youth's parent or guardian, the waiver support
				coordinator if the youth is an identified client of Agency for Persons with
				Disabilities (APD), a Division of Vocational Rehabilitation representative if
				the youth has a disability as evidenced on his or her Individual Education Plan
				(IEP), and if applicable, the DCF worker. The program shall encourage invitees'
				participation through advanced notifications and reasonable accommodations.
				However, when arrangements cannot be made for their participation in the
				transition conference, the intervention and treatment team leader shall request
				their input and offer an opportunity for them to provide it prior to the
				conference.
2. During the
				transition conference, participants shall review transition activities on both
				the youth's performance plan and treatment discharge plan, revise them if
				necessary, and identify additional activities needed when planning for the
				youth's transition to the community. An exit portfolio shall be initiated for
				the youth at this conference. Included in this portfolio will be a state issued
				Identification card, a calendar with addresses and times for follow-up
				appointments in the community, and for youth over 15 years of age, a Social
				Security card, resume and a completed sample job application. Target completion
				dates and persons responsible for their completion shall be identified during
				the conference. The intervention and treatment team leader shall obtain
				conference attendees' dated signatures, representing their acknowledgement of
				the transition activities and accountability for their completion pursuant to
				the youth's performance plan.
3. In
				follow-up to the conference, if anyone not in attendance is identified as
				having responsibility for completing a transition activity, the intervention
				and treatment team leader shall send him or her a copy of the plan and request
				its return with a dated signature. In this case, an original signature is not
				necessary. Electronic transmittal of the plan to the youth's JPO and, if
				applicable, the DCF counselor is acceptable. If transmitted electronically, a
				return email acknowledging receipt and review suffices and shall be printed and
				filed with the youth's plan.
4. In
				notifying the JPO of the youth's planned release date, the commitment program
				shall forward the Pre-Release Notification and Acknowledgment (PRN) form to the
				JPO at least 45 days prior to the youth's planned release date (90 days for sex
				offenders not meeting statutory criteria for involuntary civil commitment of
				sexually violent predators to DCF as set forth in Chapter 394,
				F.S.).