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Question: |
What is the time limit
for MSARP participation?
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Answer: |
MSARP participation is for up to
9 months (6 months plus a 3 month extension, if needed), consecutively.
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| 2. |
Question: |
What are the procedures
when a GROW participant has self-enrolled in substance abuse treatment
facility not approved by the County, and not on the County's inventory?
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Answer: |
Case management staff should contact
their district's MSARP liaison for all matters concerning possible
additions to the inventory
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| 3. |
Question: |
What does the case manager
do when the MH treatment provider assigns the participant less
than 20 hours of services (most of the time it is between 5 and
10 hours), and the provider insists the participant cannot handle
a concurrent assignment to another GROW activity to make up the
difference? Does the case manager go by the GROW regulations or
follow what the MH treatment provider recommends?
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Answer:
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The case manager continues to work
with the client to ensure that the participant completes his/her
20 hours of service. Participants are not automatically exempted
(if less than 20 hours) because the Mental Health treatment
provider states that the participant cannot participate in other
GROW activities. DMH will be informed that these individuals
should be considered for NSA status if they cannot participate
in GROW activities 20 hours per week.
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| 4. |
Question: |
Current procedures have
MSARP participants in residential treatment exempt from attending
Orientation/Job Skills Assessment, and case management staff updating
the computer as if the participant showed, to avoid the participant
going into noncompliance. When the participant completes MSARP
and is brought in to GROW, do they attend Orientation at that
time? The participant will not be on the list as scheduled to
attend Orientation.
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Answer: |
Case managers should
manually schedule these participants for Orientation. Case managers
must also control for compliance since the computer will not initiate
noncompliance if the participant does not show. |
