Program Basics
What is the Community Connect catch phrase?
My Recovery. My Story.
All contact, attempted contact, staffing, and updates should all be documented within ______ number of dates.
5
True or False: Providers are required to have internal processes in place regarding gap funding?
True:
Provider Expectations: Each provider must follow their own internal process that aligns with this guidance.
True or False: A provider cannot transfer a participant to another provider so they can hire them.
True: Provider cannot discharge or transfer a participant so they can be hired by the provider.
Examples include food assistance, supportive housing, education, employment, leisure and wellness activities, parenting support, spiritual engagement, and other individualized needs.
Name the two goals of each program?
1. Improve engagement in quality services
2. Provide access to individualized services that are responsive to each person's specific needs.
Intake Documentation Requirements, should be face to face and should include 10 key elements. List as many as you can.
Meeting location, length, and date
Role clarification and PSS
Intake paperwork (ROIs)
Strengths, Needs, Care plan discussion
Follow up expectations
Date and time of next meeting
In FTR, how many years must all gap funding documentation be kept for record-keeping?
4 years
Record-keeping requirement: All Gap Funding documentation must be kept for four years.
According to the new section Dual Relationships and Conflict of Interest, who should the care coordinator or peer support report to if a situation arises that could be perceived as a dual relationship or conflict of interest?
A CC or PSS should seek immediate guidance from a supervisor or their agency administrator.
A provider should also report any potential conflicts of interest immediately to BHD.
Name at least 3 brand new sections of program guidance.
Confidentiality, Dual Relationships and Conflict of Interest, Crisis Intervention, Suicide Prevention and Intervention, Assertive Engagement and Active Efforts, and Referral/ Intake, CC and PSS ethics,
FTR referrals must be submitted by authorized DOCR personnel. Who are they?
Parole, Probation, and Pre-trial Service staff
DOCR facility case managers
Transitional facility case managers
Documentation can be edited within how many hours of submission?
24 hours
After 24 hours, providers must contact DOCR clinical admin in FTR and the BHD admin in Com Con for corrections
True or False: medical exams, eye exams, and dental exams are included in the Clinical Services category.
False: Clinical Services: Does not include medical exams/visits, eye exams, or dental exams.
Requests to cover these services must be submitted to the gap funding committee for review.
In FTR, if a provider has knowledge of a safety related concern and the PO is not available, guidance states they should contact who?
If the PO cannot be reached, contact the PO office main line. Office numbers: https://www.docr.nd.gov/parole-and-probation
Level of Care, Program Discharge, Provider Transfer, Gap Funding Exception Request
What year did Community Connect launch?
2021
In the FTR Care Plan section of guidance, how many LSIR need areas should be addressed in a participant's care plan?
2
Targeting 4–6 domains has been shown to reduce recidivism by up to 31% (Latessa & Lowenkamp, 2006).
True or False: Besides the process in which gap funding is submitted (i.e via portal in Com Con or via email in FTR) the gap funding in both programs is identical.
True: Besides the PROCESS in which gap funding exception requests are submitted and reimbursement is completed; Gap Funding is identical in both programs.
All participants bust be offered Peer Support and if they opt out what is the expectation and requirement of the CC/PSS/Provider?
Present Care Coordination and Peer Support as equally essential. All participants must be offered Peer Support and may opt out; if they do, the reason must be documented in detail and services should be re-offered as needs evolve.
Person Centered, Recovery Oriented, Trauma Informed, and Data Driven are all principles that guide services within FTR and Com Con. What four additional principles are in FTR guidance?
Risk, Need and Responsivity
Target Intervention Needs
Responsivity Principle
Enhance Motivation
The state form an agency must fill out to apply to become a Community Connect and/or Free Through Recovery provider is SFN _ _ _?
What is the number for Community Connect?
What is the number for FTR?
Administrators should know and understand the requirements of the agreements.
Community Connect: SFN 986, page 14
FTR: SFN 811, page 18
In order to be eligible for Diligence pay at level 2 there must be a minimum of how many attempts to meet documented by the care coordinator.
There is case note documentation indicating the Care Coordinator did not meet face-to-face with the participant at least one time per month. Documentation must indicate a minimum of two attempts to meet diligence criteria.
List the 8 items eligible for gap funding without preapproval and under $100 in the Family Category.
Car seats, diapers, wipes, bottles, crib/child bed, child's clothing/ shoes, child's birth certificate or social security cards, bus fare for minor child
True or False: There are certain exceptions an administrator can make if a provider is unable to submit outcomes by the program due date?
Due Date: Outcomes for each participant must be submitted between the 1st and 5th of each month or by the 20th of the month regardless of weekends or holidays.
Non-Compliance: Failure to submit on time results in ineligibility for payment.
True or False: At level 1 the participant must meet with their CC at least one time per month.
True: At Level 1, the participant must meet with their Care Coordinator at least once during the reporting period. This meeting is not required to be face to face and can be web-based video or phone call. Text messaging, emailing or any form of direct messaging does not meet this requirement.