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Authority: AS 44.29.020 AS 47.32.030 Editor’s note: Effective July 1, 2022, Executive Order 121 split the former Department of Health and Social Services into the Department of Health and the Department of Family and Community Services. As of Register 242 (July 2022), the regulations attorney made a conforming technical revision under sec. 138, E.O. 121 and AS 44.62.125(b)(6), to the authority citation that follows 7 AAC 50.845, by substituting a reference to AS 47.32.030 (centralized licensing) for the reference to AS 47.35.010, a statute that was repealed in 2005. 7 AAC 50.850. Discharge planning. Discharge planning by a residential psychiatric treatment center must include the following documentation:

(1) documentation of discharge planning immediately upon the child’s admission;

(2) documentation of the child’s progress toward discharge; that progress must be documented at least

(A) twice a month by the facility’s clinical staff; and

(B) at least once a month by the treatment team assembled under 7 AAC 50.840;

(3) documentation that the child, the child’s family, if in the best interests of the child, the child’s guardian or guardian ad litem, the child’s case worker from the department or a child placement agency, local school personnel, and community support or treatment agencies have been engaged in development and implementation of the child’s discharge plan, including plans for care after discharge;

(4) within the child’s discharge plan, purposefully planned, time-oriented interventions designed to meet the identified discharge criterion, as appropriate to the problems of the child and the major goals for the child’s care and treatment in the facility, and documentation that any significant delay in meeting an identified discharge criterion or delay of the discharge date was justified on the basis of

(A) a significant change in the child’s behavior; or

(B) the continued instability of the child’s condition or behavior so that the discharge criterion or discharge date could not be attained or that the goals for the child after discharge cannot be maintained by the child in a less restrictive setting than a residential