Oklahoma Administrative Code › Title 377 - Office of Juvenile Affairs › Chapter 10 - Office of Juvenile Affairs › Subchapter 7 - Contract Programs and Services › Part 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS AND FOSTER CARE › Section 377:10-7-4 - Therapeutic foster care

Current through Vol. 41, No. 20, July 1, 2024
(a) The Office
				  of Juvenile Affairs may contract for the provision of therapeutic foster care
				  services to OJA-custody juveniles who are between the ages of 10 and 18 years
				  of age with documented mental health problems. A therapeutic foster home is a
				  foster family home, which provides specific services to eliminate social and
				  behavioral problems of a juvenile placed in the home.
(b) Juveniles who are not appropriate for
				  therapeutic foster care are those with serious and repeated delinquent
				  behaviors who appear to need intensive residential or group care treatment
				  programs which provide 24-hour awake supervision and/or juveniles who are so
				  severely emotionally disturbed that they require hospitalization or intensive
				  residential or group care treatment programs which provide 24-hour awake
				  supervision.
(c) The number of
				  children placed in one therapeutic foster home shall not exceed two unless
				  written authorization is granted by OJA. The placement of a third resident
				  shall only occur in special circumstances such as keeping sibling groups
				  together or when a third resident is temporarily placed due to an existing
				  resident approaching discharge from the program.
(d) Prior to the placement of children in
				  therapeutic foster care homes, all foster parents must satisfactorily complete
				  thirty-five pre-service hours, not including the six hours of orientation, of
				  primarily skill-based training consistent with OJA's treatment methodology and
				  the service needs of emotionally disturbed and behaviorally disordered
				  children. All therapeutic foster parents must satisfactorily complete a minimum
				  of eighteen hours of in-service training per year to maintain certification,
				  whether or not a resident is placed in the home. First Aid and CPR training may
				  count for up to 8 hours of in-service training within the first year of
				  certification. After the first year, First Aid and CPR recertification training
				  may count as no more than 4 hours of the required 18 hours of in-service
				  training annually. In-service training may include a variety of formats and
				  procedures including in-home training provided by OJA staff.
(e) Rules regarding eligible providers,
				  admission requirements, description of required services, and the Title XIX
				  payment rate are found in Title 317, the Oklahoma Health Care Authority [
				  317:30-5-740,
				  317:30-5-741(5)(D),
				  317:30-5-742,
				  317:30-5-473, and 317:30-5-475 ]. In addition to the requirements of the
				  Oklahoma Health Care Authority, therapeutic foster homes shall be licensed by
				  DHS, provide services, and meet the licensing requirements for therapeutic
				  foster care as identified in OAC 340:75, the therapeutic foster care contract,
				  and the OJA foster home standards listed in OAC
				  377:10-7-1
				  through
				  377:10-7-3.12.
(f) OJA, pursuant to 2-7-613(A), shall
				  provide supervision to juveniles in therapeutic foster care.
Added at 14 Ok Reg
					 1864, eff 6-2-97; Amended at 15 Ok Reg 2667, eff 7-1-98; Amended at 16 Ok Reg
					 174, eff 10-22-98 (emergency); Amended at 16 Ok Reg 2981, eff 7-12-99; Amended
					 at 24 Ok Reg 1401, eff 7-1-07; Amended at 28 Ok Reg 1993, eff
					 7-15-11