Comment: Community Support Proposed Rulemaking
Children’s Law Center submitted public comments on the Proposed Rulemaking for Community Support clinical necessity criteria and authorization requirements. Our comments challenge the notion set forth by the rulemaking that measured improvement is needed to justify a consumer continuing to receive services and that measured functional decline is needed to receive a higher frequency of services. At the core of this issue, we contest whether the functional assessment used for children is a sufficient measure to use for these purposes due to its subjective nature.
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Although tens of thousands of DC children have behavioral health needs, only a fraction of them actually receive timely supports and services. At Children’s Law Center, we know that many of the children we work with – including children in the foster care system or receiving special education services – only need our help because their needs have gone unaddressed.