2007 Minnesota Statutes

245.492 DEFINITIONS.
    Subdivision 1. Definitions. The definitions in this section apply to sections 245.491 to
245.495.
    Subd. 2. Base level funding. "Base level funding" means funding received from state,
federal, or local sources and expended across the local system of care in fiscal year 1995 for
children's mental health services, for special education services, and for other services for children
with emotional or behavioral disturbances and their families.
In subsequent years, base level funding may be adjusted to reflect decreases in the numbers
of children in the target population.
    Subd. 3. Children with emotional or behavioral disturbances. "Children with emotional
or behavioral disturbances" includes children with emotional disturbances as defined in section
245.4871, subdivision 15, and children with emotional or behavioral disorders as defined in
Minnesota Rules, part 3525.1329, subpart 1.
    Subd. 4. Family. "Family" has the definition provided in section 245.4871, subdivision 16.
    Subd. 5. Family community support services. "Family community support services" has
the definition provided in section 245.4871, subdivision 17.
    Subd. 6. Operational target population. "Operational target population" means a
population of children that the local children's mental health collaborative agrees to serve and
who fall within the criteria for the target population. The operational target population may
be less than the target population.
    Subd. 7. Integrated fund. "Integrated fund" is a pool of both public and private local,
state, and federal resources, consolidated at the local level, to accomplish locally agreed upon
service goals for the target population. The fund is used to help the local children's mental health
collaborative to serve the mental health needs of children in the target population by allowing
the local children's mental health collaboratives to develop and implement an integrated service
system.
    Subd. 8. Integrated fund task force. The "integrated fund task force" means the statewide
task force established in Laws 1991, chapter 292, article 6, section 57.
    Subd. 9. Integrated service system. "Integrated service system" means a coordinated set
of procedures established by the local children's mental health collaborative for coordinating
services and actions across categorical systems and agencies that results in:
(1) integrated funding;
(2) improved outreach, early identification, and intervention across systems;
(3) strong collaboration between parents and professionals in identifying children in the
target population facilitating access to the integrated system, and coordinating care and services
for these children;
(4) a coordinated assessment process across systems that determines which children need
multiagency care coordination and wraparound services;
(5) multiagency plan of care; and
(6) individualized rehabilitation services.
Services provided by the integrated service system must meet the requirements set out in sections
245.487 to 245.4889. Children served by the integrated service system must be economically and
culturally representative of children in the service delivery area.
    Subd. 10. Interagency early intervention committee. "Interagency early intervention
committee" refers to the committee established under section 125A.30.
    Subd. 11. Local children's advisory council. "Local children's advisory council" refers to
the council established under section 245.4875, subdivision 5.
    Subd. 12. Local children's mental health collaborative. "Local children's mental health
collaborative" or "collaborative" means an entity formed by the agreement of representatives of
the local system of care including mental health services, social services, correctional services,
education services, health services, and vocational services for the purpose of developing and
governing an integrated service system. A local coordinating council, a community transition
interagency committee as defined in section 125A.22, or an interagency early intervention
committee may serve as a local children's mental health collaborative if its representatives are
capable of carrying out the duties of the local children's mental health collaborative set out in
sections 245.491 to 245.495. Where a local coordinating council is not the local children's mental
health collaborative, the local children's mental health collaborative must work closely with the
local coordinating council in designing the integrated service system.
    Subd. 13. Local coordinating council. "Local coordinating council" refers to the council
established under section 245.4875, subdivision 6.
    Subd. 14. Local system of care. "Local system of care" has the definition provided in
section 245.4871, subdivision 24.
    Subd. 15. Mental health services. "Mental health services" has the definition provided in
section 245.4871, subdivision 28.
    Subd. 16. Multiagency plan of care. "Multiagency plan of care" means a written plan of
intervention and integrated services developed by a multiagency team in conjunction with the
child and family based on their unique strengths and needs as determined by a multiagency
assessment. The plan must outline measurable client outcomes and specific services needed to
attain these outcomes, the agencies responsible for providing the specified services, funding
responsibilities, timelines, the judicial or administrative procedures needed to implement the plan
of care, the agencies responsible for initiating these procedures and designate one person with
lead responsibility for overseeing implementation of the plan.
    Subd. 17. Respite care. "Respite care" is planned routine care to support the continued
residence of a child with emotional or behavioral disturbance with the child's family or long-term
primary caretaker.
    Subd. 18. Service delivery area. "Service delivery area" means the geographic area to be
served by the local children's mental health collaborative and must include at a minimum a part of
a county and school district or a special education cooperative.
    Subd. 19. Start-up funds. "Start-up funds" means the funds available to assist a local
children's mental health collaborative in planning and implementing the integrated service system
for children in the target population, in setting up a local integrated fund, and in developing
procedures for enhancing federal financial participation.
    Subd. 20.[Repealed, 1995 c 207 art 11 s 12]
    Subd. 21. Target population. "Target population" means children up to age 18 with an
emotional or behavioral disturbance or who are at risk of suffering an emotional or behavioral
disturbance as evidenced by a behavior or condition that affects the child's ability to function in a
primary aspect of daily living including personal relations, living arrangements, work, school, and
recreation, and a child who can benefit from:
(1) multiagency service coordination and wraparound services; or
(2) informal coordination of traditional mental health services provided on a temporary basis.
Children between the ages of 18 and 21 who meet these criteria may be included in the target
population at the option of the local children's mental health collaborative.
    Subd. 22. Therapeutic support of foster care. "Therapeutic support of foster care" has the
definition provided in section 245.4871, subdivision 34.
    Subd. 23. Individualized rehabilitation services. "Individualized rehabilitation services"
are alternative, flexible, coordinated, and highly individualized services that are based on a
multiagency plan of care. These services are designed to build on the strengths and respond to
the needs identified in the child's multiagency assessment and to improve the child's ability
to function in the home, school, and community. Individualized rehabilitation services may
include, but are not limited to, residential services, respite services, services that assist the child or
family in enrolling in or participating in recreational activities, assistance in purchasing otherwise
unavailable items or services important to maintain a specific child in the family, and services that
assist the child to participate in more traditional services and programs.
History: 1Sp1993 c 1 art 7 s 12; 1994 c 647 art 13 s 18; 1995 c 207 art 8 s 13-16; 1998 c
397 art 11 s 3; 1Sp2003 c 14 art 11 s 11; 2007 c 147 art 8 s 38