2002 Minnesota Statutes

     256F.03 Definitions. 

    Subdivision 1.    Scope.  For purposes of sections 
 256F.01 to 256F.07, the terms defined in this section have the 
 meanings given them, unless the context clearly indicates 
 otherwise. 

    Subd. 2.    Commissioner.  "Commissioner" means the 
 commissioner of human services.  

    Subd. 3.    County plan.  "County plan" means the 
 community social services plan required by section 256E.09. 

    Subd. 4.    County board.  "County board" means the 
 board of county commissioners in each county. 

    Subd. 5.    Family-based services.  "Family-based 
 services" means one or more of the services described in 
 paragraphs (a) to (e) provided to families primarily in their 
 own home for a limited time.  

    (a)    Crisis services.  "Crisis services" means 
 professional services provided within 24 hours of referral to 
 alleviate a family crisis and to offer an alternative to placing 
 a child outside the family home.  The services are intensive and 
 time limited.  The service may offer transition to other 
 appropriate community-based services. 

    (b)    Counseling services.  "Counseling services" means 
 professional family counseling provided to alleviate individual 
 and family dysfunction; provide an alternative to placing a 
 child outside the family home; or permit a child to return 
 home.  The duration, frequency, and intensity of the service is 
 determined in the individual or family service plan. 

    (c)    Life management skills services.  "Life 
 management skills services" means paraprofessional services that 
 teach family members skills in such areas as parenting, 
 budgeting, home management, and communication.  The goal is to 
 strengthen family skills as an alternative to placing a child 
 outside the family home or to permit a child to return home.  A 
 social worker shall coordinate these services within the family 
 case plan. 

    (d)    Mental health services.  "Mental health services" 
 means the professional services defined in section 245.4871, 
 subdivision 31. 

    (e)    Early intervention services.  "Early intervention 
 services" means family-based intervention services designed to 
 help at-risk families avoid crisis situations. 

    Subd. 6.    Human services board.  "Human services board"
 means a board established under section 402.02, Laws 1974, 
 chapter 293, or Laws 1976, chapter 340. 

    Subd. 7.    Permanency planning.  "Permanency planning" 
 means the systematic process of carrying out, within a short 
 time, a set of goal-oriented activities designed to help 
 children live in families that offer continuity of relationships 
 with nurturing parents or caretakers, and the opportunity to 
 establish lifetime relationships. 

    Subd. 8.    Placement prevention and family reunification 
 services.  "Placement prevention and family reunification 
 services" means a continuum of services designed to help 
 children remain with their families or to facilitate 
 reunification of children with their parents.  Placement 
 prevention and family reunification services available to a 
 minority family must reflect and support family models that are 
 accepted within the culture of the particular minority. 

    Subd. 9.    Residential facility  "Residential facility" 
 means a residential facility as defined in section 260C.212, 
 subdivision 1.  

    Subd. 10.    Family preservation core services.  "Family 
 preservation core services" means adequate capacity of crisis 
 services as defined in subdivision 5, paragraph (a), plus either 
 or both counseling services as defined in subdivision 5, 
 paragraph (b), and mental health services as defined in 
 subdivision 5, paragraph (e), plus life management skills 
 services as defined in subdivision 5, paragraph (c). 

    HIST: 1Sp1985 c 9 art 2 s 71; 1988 c 689 art 2 s 208; 1991 c 
 292 art 3 s 12; 1995 c 207 art 4 s 7,8; 1999 c 139 art 4 s 2; 
 1999 c 245 art 8 s 10