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§290ff–2 Individualized Plan for Services

Title 42 › Chapter 6A— PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE › Subchapter III–A— SUBSTANCE ABUSE AND MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES ADMINISTRATION › Part E— Children With Serious Emotional Disturbances › § 290ff–2

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

Grants must require a system of care to make and carry out an individualized plan of services for every child it serves. The family must take part in making the plan, and the child must too unless a clinician says that would be inappropriate. A team of qualified service providers must create the plan and must review and update it at least once a year. That team should include, as needed, mental health, other health, educational, social, and vocational counseling and rehabilitation providers. If the child has an Individualized Education Program (IEP) under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, the team must consider the IEP, make the service plan match and coordinate with the IEP, and make sure any written agreement with the school system covers these requirements. Each plan must say what services the child needs, provide the services that fit the child (including vocational counseling, rehabilitation, and transition services for children 14 and older), set goals and how to reach them, and name a person responsible for case management or confirm that the IEP will provide that case management.

Full Legal Text

Title 42, §290ff–2

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(a)A funding agreement for a grant under section 290ff(a) of this title is that a system of care under section 290ff–1(a) of this title will develop and carry out an individualized plan of services for each child provided access to the system, and that the plan will be developed and carried out with the participation of the family of the child and, unless clinically inappropriate, with the participation of the child.
(b)A funding agreement for a grant under section 290ff(a) of this title is that the plan required in subsection (a) will be developed, and reviewed and as appropriate revised not less than once each year, by a multidisciplinary team of appropriately qualified individuals who provide services through the system, including as appropriate mental health services, other health services, educational services, social services, and vocational counseling and rehabilitation; 11 So in original. The semicolon probably should be a period.
(c)A funding agreement for a grant under section 290ff(a) of this title is that, with respect to a plan under subsection (a) for a child, the multidisciplinary team required in subsection (b) will—
(1)in developing, carrying out, reviewing, and revising the plan consider any individualized education program in effect for the child pursuant to part B of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act [42 U.S.C. 1411 et seq.];
(2)ensure that the plan is consistent with such individualized education program and provides for coordinating services under the plan with services under such program; and
(3)ensure that the memorandum of understanding entered into under section 290ff–1(d)(3)(B) of this title regarding such Act [20 U.S.C. 1400 et seq.] includes provisions regarding compliance with this subsection.
(d)A funding agreement for a grant under section 290ff(a) of this title is that the plan required in subsection (a) for a child will—
(1)identify and state the needs of the child for the services available pursuant to section 290ff–1 of this title through the system;
(2)provide for each of such services that is appropriate to the circumstances of the child, including, except in the case of children who are less than 14 years of age, the provision of appropriate vocational counseling and rehabilitation, and transition services (as defined in section 602 [20 U.S.C. 1401] of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act);
(3)establish objectives to be achieved regarding the needs of the child and the methodology for achieving the objectives; and
(4)designate an individual to be responsible for providing the case management required in section 290ff–1(e)(1) of this title or certify that case management services will be provided to the child as part of the individualized education program of the child under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act [20 U.S.C. 1400 et seq.].

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, referred to in subsecs. (c)(1), (3) and (d)(4), is title VI of Pub. L. 91–230, Apr. 13, 1970, 84 Stat. 175, which is classified generally to chapter 33 (§ 1400 et seq.) of Title 20, Education. Part B of the Act is classified generally to subchapter II (§ 1411 et seq.) of chapter 33 of Title 20. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see section 1400 of Title 20 and Tables.

Amendments

2004—Subsec. (d)(2). Pub. L. 108–446 substituted “section 602” for “section 602(a)(19)”.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

Section effective Oct. 1, 1992, with provision for programs providing financial assistance, see section 801(c), (d) of Pub. L. 102–321, set out as an

Effective Date

of 1992 Amendment note under section 236 of this title.

Reference

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Citation

42 U.S.C. § 290ff–2

Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare

Last Updated

Apr 5, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60