§ 8-407. Local care team -- Duties

   A local care team shall:

   (1) be a forum for:

      (i) families of children with intensive needs to receive assistance with the identification of individual needs and potential resources to meet identified needs; and

      (ii) interagency discussions and problem solving for individual child and family needs and systemic needs;

   (2) refer children and families to:

      (i) care management entities when appropriate; and

      (ii) available local and community resources;

   (3) provide training and technical assistance to local agency and community partners;

   (4) identify and share resource development needs and communicate with the care management entity, local core service agencies, provider networks, local management boards, and other local care teams in surrounding jurisdictions; and

   (5) discuss a request for a voluntary placement agreement for a child with a developmental disability or a mental illness under § 5-525 of the Family Law Article.

HISTORY: An. Code 1957, art. 49D, § 4-102(f)-(h); 2007, ch. 3, § 2; 2011, ch. 604.