Goal:

The Garrett County Local Care Team (LCT) ensures that children/youth and their families with intensive needs receive necessary support and resources to live a successful life.

Strategy Description:

The Garrett County Local Care Team helps children and families to identify their individual needs and coordinate assistance through referrals to local agencies. The LCT initiates inter-agency discussions and problem solving for individual family needs as well as systemic needs. The LCT refers children and families to Care Management entities when appropriate as well as local and community resources. The LCT identifies and shares resource development needs with the Care Management entity, Local Care Teams and local Core Service Agencies/Behavioral Health Authorities concerning how to best help the family. The LCT can discuss a request for voluntary placement for a child with a diagnosed developmental disability or mental illness.

Level of Change:

Systems

Primary Focus Area:

Behavioral Health: including Substance Abuse and Mental Health

Data Category Tag:

GCHD Local Management Board

Strategic Planning Alignment:

Estimated Implementation Date:

2017-03-30

Estimated Completion Date:

2022-12-30

Estimated Ease of Implementation:

Hard

Estimated Cost of Implementation:

Moderate

Potential Community Benefit:

Very High

Health Equity:

Research: