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psychiatric treatment center;

(5) within the child’s discharge plan and as appropriate, proactive transition phase steps to assist the child’s adjustment to the planned setting for care after discharge, including therapeutic passes to the community, visits to the post-discharge setting, or short stays of up to two nights in the post-discharge setting;

(6) documentation that the members of the treatment team assembled under 7 AAC 50.840 reached substantial agreement on necessary components of the discharge plan and the plan for care after discharge, including identification of agencies or persons responsible for each plan component;

(7) documentation that the discharge plan was completed in a sufficient amount of time before the projected date of discharge to facilitate successful community placement of the child, including collaboration with the local school district where the child will be placed to support the development of an IEP on or before the date of discharge. (Eff. 6/21/2001, Register 158) Statutory Authority: 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 50.850, 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substituting a reference to AS 47.32.030 (centralized licensing) for the reference to AS 47.35.010, a statute that was repealed in 2005. 7 AAC 50.855. Discharge. (a) If, as a result of the progress evaluation required by 7 AAC 50.845(a) if the residential psychiatric treatment center recommends that the child not remain in treatment in the facility, the facility shall document in its medical records that the

(1) child’s condition can no longer be safely, appropriately, or effectively treated in the facility’s treatment program, but that the child could be safely, appropriately, or effectively treated in the treatment program of another residential psychiatric treatment center;

(2) child’s condition can no longer be safely, appropriately, or effectively treated in the