(1) The secretaries of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services and the Education and Labor Cabinet and the chief state school officer shall jointly develop and implement a statewide plan, with adequate opportunity for public comment, to serve all persons with developmental disabilities not otherwise entitled to and receiving the same services under another state or federal act, which will include provisions for:
(a) Identification and prompt and adequate interdisciplinary assessment; (b) Case management services; and

Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes 347.040

  • Case management services: means all such services to persons with developmental disabilities as will assist them in gaining access to needed social, medical, legal, educational, and other services, and such term includes:
    (a) Follow-along services which assure, through a continuing relationship between an agency or provider and a person with a developmental disability and the person's parent, if the person is a minor, or guardian, if the person has been adjudicated legally disabled, that the changing needs of the person and the family are recognized and appropriately met. See Kentucky Statutes 347.020
  • Federal: refers to the United States. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Services: means such residential, developmental, vocational, support and related services, training, and active treatment in the least restrictive, individually appropriate environment to provide for continuing development of independent or interdependent living skills of persons with developmental disabilities. See Kentucky Statutes 347.020
  • State: when applied to a part of the United States, includes territories, outlying possessions, and the District of Columbia. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010

(c) Services and residential alternatives as defined by this chapter in the least restrictive, individually appropriate environment.
(2) The first plan and annual updates shall be presented to the Legislative Research Commission which shall refer it to an appropriate committee for review and comment.
(3) The plan shall include:
(a) The number of institution residents on waiting lists for placement in the community;
(b) The number of persons outside institutions on waiting lists for placement in the institution;
(c) The number of persons for whom no placement is made nor services provided because of a lack of community resources;
(d) The number, type, nature, and cost of services necessary for placement to occur;
(e) The status of compliance with the plan;
(f) The cabinets’ specific efforts to increase residential and institutional services and documentation of the success of these efforts; and
(g) The specific plans for new efforts to enhance the opportunities for persons with developmental disabilities to move into less restrictive environments.
(4) The state health plan shall be developed consistently with the plan required under this chapter.
Effective:July 1, 2022
History: Amended 2022 Ky. Acts ch. 236, sec. 171, effective July 1, 2022. — Amended 2009 Ky. Acts ch. 11, sec. 84, effective June 25, 2009. — Amended
2006 Ky. Acts ch. 211, sec. 162, effective July 12, 2006. — Amended 2005 Ky. Acts ch. 99, sec. 613, effective June 20, 2005. — Amended 1998 Ky. Acts ch.
426, sec. 568, effective July 15, 1998. — Amended 1994 Ky. Acts ch. 209, sec.
20, effective July 15, 1994. Amended 1992 Ky. Acts ch. 27, sec. 12, effective
March 2, 1992. — Created 1986 Ky. Acts ch. 469, sec. 4, effective July 15, 1986.