Children's Services Act

CPMT 

The Roanoke City Community and Policy Management Team (CPMT) shall be to create, maintain, and manage a collaborative system of services and funding that is child-centered, family-focused, and community-based when addressing the strengths and needs of at-risk youth and their families.

The Community Policy and Management Team, as an agent of the City of Roanoke, and as a creation of state law, having been mandated by the General Assembly, shall be subject to the state and local laws and regulations established to regulate its functioning, and shall have the general powers and duties of a Community Policy and Management Team, as outlined in Section 2.2-5206 of the Code of Virginia.  The powers and duties are:

1. To develop interagency policies and procedures to govern the provision of services to children and families in its community;
2. To develop interagency fiscal policies governing access to the state pool of funds by the eligible populations, including immediate access to funds for emergency services and shelter care;
3.  To establish policies assessing the ability of parents or legal guardians to contribute financially to the cost of services to be provided and, when not specifically prohibited by federal or state law or regulation, provide for appropriate parental or legal guardian financial contribution, utilizing a standard sliding fee scale based upon ability to pay;
4. To coordinate long-range, community-wide planning which ensures the development of resources and services needed by children and families in its community, including consultation on the development of a community-based systems established under Section 16.1-309.3 of the Code of Virginia (195) as amended;
5. To establish policies governing referrals and reviews of children and families to the Family Assessment and Planning Teams and a process to review the teams’ recommendations and requests for funding;
6. To establish quality assurance and accountability procedures for program utilization and funds management;
7. To establish procedures for obtaining bids on the development of new services;
8. To manage funds in the interagency budget allocated to the community from the state pool of funds, the trust fund, and any other source;
9. To authorize and monitor the expenditure of funds by each Family Assessment and Planning Team;
10. To have authority to submit grant proposals which benefit its community to the state trust fund and to enter into contracts for the provision or operation of services upon approval of the City  Council of the City of Roanoke;
11. To serve as its community’s liaison to the state Management Team, reporting on its programmatic and fiscal operations and on its recommendations for improving the service system, including consideration of realignment of geographical boundaries for providing human services;
12. To collect and provide uniform data to the State Executive Council on, but not limited to, expenditures, number of youth serviced in specific CSA activities, length of stay for residents in core licensed residential facilities, and proportion of youth placed in treatment settings suggested by a uniform assessment instrument for CSA-funded services; and
13. To administer funds pursuant to Section 16.1-309.3 of the Code of Virginia (1950) as amended, which is part of the Virginia Juvenile Community Crime Control Act.
14. To have authority, upon approval of the participating governing bodies, to enter into a contract with another community policy and management team to purchase coordination services provided that funds described as the state pool of funds under § 2.2-5211 are not used.
15. Submit to the Department of Behavioral Health & Developmental Services information on children under the age of 14 and adolescents aged 14 through 17 for whom an admission to an acute care psychiatric or residential treatment facility licensed pursuant to Article 2 (§ 37.2-403 et seq.) of Chapter 4 of Title 37.2, exclusive of group homes, was sought but unable to be obtained by reporting entities. Such information shall be gathered from the family assessment and planning team or participating community agencies authorized in §2.2-5207. Information to be submitted shall include the child’s or adolescent’s date of birth, date admission was attempted, and the reason the patient could not be admitted into the hospital or facility.
16. Establish policies for providing intensive care coordination services for children who are at-risk of entering, or are placed in, residential care through the Comprehensive Services Act program, consistent with guidelines developed pursuant to subdivision D 22 of § 2.2-2648." COV § 2.2-520

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