New Mexico Administrative Code › Title 8 - SOCIAL SERVICES › Chapter 14 - JUVENILE JUSTICE › Part 10 - TRANSITION SERVICES › Section 8.14.10.7 - DEFINITIONS

Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 13, July 16, 2024
A.
Community
				services reviewer
refers to persons designated to review, coordinate,
				track, and ensure the provision of emergency wraparound funds for youth in
				transition services.
B.
Culturally competent services
refers to a service delivery system that
				is responsive to diversity and cultural differences related to age, race,
				ethnicity, gender, and sexual preference.
C.
CYFD
refers to the New
				Mexico children, youth and families department.
D.
Director of community based
				behavioral health services
refers to the person designated to provide
				management oversight, guidance, and direction for community based behavioral
				health care and community based rehabilitative services operated or funded by
				CYFD for youth on probation or supervised release.
E.
Emergency wraparound funds
refers to funds of last resort that have been identified for use primarily with
				juvenile justice clients who are in need of service or goods that will assist
				in the successful reintegration back into a community after release from a
				juvenile justice facility and secondarily, with juvenile justice clients on
				probation to support the successful completion of probationary agreements or
				plans of care.
F.
Facility
				release panel (panel)
is the departmental secretary-designated releasing
				authority that considers juveniles for supervised release.
G.
FACTS
refers to the family
				automated client tracking system, CYFD's management information
				system.
H.
Grievance
				system
refers to systems and procedures available to youth to resolve
				grievances with transition services operations and staff.
I.
Incident reporting
refers to
				procedures in place to report events requiring JJS or CYFD response.
J.
Facility
refers to a
				facility operated by, or on behalf of, CYFD's juvenile justice services, for
				purposes of housing and providing care for clients committed to the custody of
				CYFD.
K.
Juvenile justice
				services (JJS)
refers to the organizational unit within CYFD that
				operates juvenile justice facilities, and provides other services under the
				Delinquency Act, NMSA 1978, Section 32A-2-1 et seq. (2005).
L.
Multi-disciplinary team
refers to the team that meets at central intake and at the facility to develop,
				monitor, and revise client plans for placement and services. The team includes
				the client and family member(s), and behavioral health, education, medical, a
				security representative, the juvenile probation officer and a transition
				services coordinator if assigned.
M.
Single entity for behavioral health
				services
refers to the managed care organization that contracts with the
				state to manage the delivery of all publicly funded behavioral health
				services.
N.
Transition
				services coordinator (TSC)
means a person whose duties may include
				coordination of community and aftercare services for a client.
O.
Transition services manager
refers to the person designated to manage transition services, and to train,
				supervise, and evaluate transition services coordinators.
P.
Transition services
refers
				to the services provided for youth exiting the care and custody of CYFD.
				Services are youth and family-driven, with individualized case planning and
				community-based transition services using wraparound models. CYFD provides
				transition services based on best practices that are culturally competent,
				gender responsive, and built on the unique strengths and resiliency of youth
				and their families.
Q.
Transition team
refers to the team that meets to develop, monitor, and
				revise transition plans. Transition team includes the transition services
				coordinator, the facility multi-disciplinary team members, juvenile probation
				officer, the youth, family, and service providers involved with the youth and
				the transition plan.
R.
Wrap
				around services
refers to a service delivery system that utilizes
				community resources, is designed to fit the specific needs of the youth,
				promotes full youth and family engagement in the service delivery, and enhances
				the client's ability to access resources after CYFD involvement.