Section 16.03.09.852 - SCHOOL-BASED SERVICE: SERVICE-SPECIFIC PARTICIPANT ELIGIBILITYSkills Building/Community Based Rehabilitation Services (CBRS). CHIS and Personal Care Services (PCS) have additional eligibility requirements.
01.Skills Building/Community Based Rehabilitation Services (CBRS). To be eligible for Skills Building/CBRS, the student must meet one (1) of the following: a. A student who is a child under eighteen (18) years of age must meet the Serious Emotional Disturbance (SED) eligibility criteria for children in accordance with the Children's Mental Health Services Act, Section 16-2403, Idaho Code. A child who meets the criteria for SED must experience a substantial impairment in functioning. The child's level and type of functional impairment must be documented in the school record. A Department-approved assessment must be used to obtain the child's initial functional impairment score. Subsequent scores must be obtained at least annually in order to determine the child's change in functioning that occurs as a result of mental health treatment.b. A student who is eighteen (18) years old or older must meet the criteria of Serious and Persistent Mental Illness (SPMI). This requires that a student participant meet the criteria for SMI, as described in 42 CFR 483.102(b)(1), have at least one (1) additional functional impairment, and have a diagnosis under DSM-V, or later edition, with one (1) of the following: Schizophrenia, Schizoaffective Disorder, Bipolar I Disorder, Bipolar II Disorder, Major Depressive Disorder Recurrent Severe, Delusional Disorder, or Borderline Personality Disorder. The only Not Otherwise Specified (NOS) diagnosis included is Psychotic Disorder NOS for a maximum of one hundred twenty (120) days without a conclusive diagnosis. In addition, the psychiatric disorder must be of sufficient severity to affect the participant's functional skills negatively, causing a substantial disturbance in role performance or coping skills in at least two (2) of the areas listed below on either a continuous or intermittent basis, at least once per year. The skill areas that are targeted must be consistent with the participant's ability to engage and benefit from treatment. The detail of the participant's level and type of functional impairment must be documented in the medical record in the following areas:i. Vocational or educational;iii. Social relationships or support;vii. Community or legal; or02.CHIS. Students eligible to receive habilitative skill building, behavioral intervention, behavioral consultation, crisis intervention, and interdisciplinary training services must have a standardized Department-approved assessment to identify functional, or behavioral needs, or both, that interfere with the student's ability to access an education or require intervention services to correct or ameliorate their condition in accordance with Section 880 of these rules. a. A functional need is determined when the student exhibits a deficit in an overall adaptive composite or deficits in three (3) or more of the following areas: self-care, receptive and expressive language, learning, mobility, self-direction, capacity for independent living, or economic self-sufficiency. A deficit is defined as one point five (1.5) or more standard deviations below the mean for all functional areas.b. A behavioral need is determined when the student exhibits maladaptive behaviors that include frequent disruptive behaviors, aggression, self-injury, criminal or dangerous behavior evidenced by a score of at least one point five (1.5) standard deviations from the mean in at least two (2) behavior domains and by a rater familiar with the student, or at least two (2) standard deviations from the mean in one (1) composite score that consists of at least three (3) behavior domains by a rater familiar with the student, on a standardized behavioral assessment approved by the Department.03.Personal Care Services. To be eligible for personal care services (PCS), the student must have a completed children's PCS assessment and allocation tool approved by the Department. To determine eligibility for PCS, the assessment results must find the student requires PCS due to a medical condition that impairs the physical or functional abilities of the student.Idaho Admin. Code r. 16.03.09.852