Title 42 › Chapter CHAPTER 6A— - PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER III–A— - SUBSTANCE ABUSE AND MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES ADMINISTRATION › Part Part E— - Children With Serious Emotional Disturbances › § 290ff–2
Grants must require a system of care to make and carry out an individualized service plan for every child who uses the system. The family must take part in making the plan, and the child must take part too unless a doctor says that would be inappropriate. A team of qualified professionals who give services in the system must create the plan and review and update it at least once a year. The team should include, as needed, people who provide mental health, other health, education, social, and vocational counseling and rehabilitation services. For each child, the team must take the child’s Individualized Education Program (IEP) under IDEA into account, make the plan match and coordinate with the IEP, and make sure any interagency agreement about IDEA includes rules to follow these requirements. Each plan must list the child’s needs for services in the system; provide the right services for the child (including vocational counseling, rehabilitation, and transition services for children 14 or older); set goals and how to reach them; and name a person to do case management or say that the child’s IEP will provide the case management.
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42 U.S.C. § 290ff–2
Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare
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Apr 6, 2026
Release point: 119-73