§ 483-c. Coordinated children's services for children with emotional\nand/or behavioral disorders. 1. Purpose. The purpose of this section\nshall be to establish a coordinated system of care for children with\nemotional and behavioral disorders, and their families, who require\nassistance from multiple agency systems to appropriately maintain such\nchildren with their families, in their communities and in their local\nschool systems. Such system of care shall provide for the effective\ncollaboration among state and local health, mental hygiene, education,\njuvenile justice, probation of care and other human services agencies\ndirected at improving outcomes for children with emotional and/or\nbehavioral disorders and their families leading to full participation in\ntheir communities and schools. This shall include children with\nco-occurring disorders. The absence of coordinated care often results in\ninappropriate and costly institutional placements and limited\ncommunity-based services that support maintaining the child in the\ncommunity. Establishing the coordinated children's services initiative\nstatewide is intended to improve the manner in which services of\nmultiple systems are delivered and to eliminate barriers to a\ncoordinated system of care.\n 2. Definitions. As used in this section:\n (a) "Child with an emotional and/or behavioral disorder" shall mean a\nperson under eighteen years of age, or a person under twenty-one years\nof age who has not completed secondary school, who has a mental illness,\nas defined in subdivision twenty of section 1.03 of the mental hygiene\nlaw, or is classified as a student with a disability pursuant to article\neighty-nine of the education law or section 504 of the federal\nrehabilitation act, or is considered to have a serious emotional or\nbehavioral problem, as considered by a tier I and/or tier II team\nrepresentative pursuant to this section. Such term shall include\nchildren with co-occurring disorders.\n (b) "Individualized family support plan" shall mean a plan developed\nin conjunction with the family through a strength-based child and family\nassessment containing a summary of the strengths, needs and goals of a\nchild with an emotional and/or behavioral disorder, and the services and\nsupports agreed to by the child, family and the tier I team\nrepresentatives.\n (c) "Family" shall mean, when appropriate, a child with an emotional\nand/or behavioral disorder, his or her parents or those in parental\nrelationship to the child, blood relatives and extended family,\nincluding non-relatives identified by the child and/or parents. Nothing\nin this section shall be construed to deny the child, his or her parents\nor those persons in parental relationship to the child of any rights\nthey are otherwise entitled to by law.\n (d) "County" shall mean a county, except in the case of a county that\nis wholly included within a city, such term shall mean such city.\n (e) "Family support representative" shall mean a volunteer who is also\na parent or primary caregiver of a child with an emotional and/or\nbehavioral disorder. The family support representative shall assist\nfamilies throughout the process of developing and implementing an\nindividualized family support plan as defined in this section.\n 3. Interagency structure. (a) There shall be established a three\ntiered interagency structure, as follows:\n (i) State tier III team. There is hereby established a state team\ndesignated as the "tier III team", which shall consist of the chair of\nthe council, the commissioners of children and family services, mental\nhealth, health, education, alcoholism and substance abuse services, and\nthe office for people with developmental disabilities, and the director\nof the office of probation and correctional alternatives, or their\ndesignated representatives, and representatives of families of children\nwith emotional and/or behavioral disorders. Other representatives may be\nadded at th
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