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UNOFFICIAL 1737-57 care, residential treatment facility) for children with serious emotional or behavioral disturbances or adults with serious mental illness. These services: (A) Diffuse the current crisis, evaluate its nature and intervene to reduce the likelihood of a recurrence; (B) Assess and monitor the service needs of the identified individual so that he or she can be safely maintained in the family; (C) Ensure the clinical appropriateness of services provided; and (D) Improve the individual’s ability to care for self and the family’s capacity to care for the individual. This service includes focused evaluations and assessments, crisis case management, behavior management, counseling, and other therapeutic rehabilitative mental health services toward improving the individual’s ability to function in the family. Services are directed towards the identified individual within the family. Services can be provided in-home, school or other natural environment. Services are provided by a multidisciplinary team comprised of qualified mental health professionals. If the services are provided by staff other than a qualified mental health professional, the staff shall be supervised at a minimum by a qualified mental health professional. Additionally, provider qualifications must be in compliance with requirements and standards of a national accreditation organization. (5) Therapeutic Living Supports and Therapeutic Foster Care Supports: These are services covered in settings such as group living arrangements or therapeutic foster homes. Group living arrangements usually provide services for three to six individuals, but not more than fifteen individuals, per home. Therapeutic foster homes provide services for a maximum of fifteen individuals per home. Although these group living arrangements and therapeutic foster homes may provide twenty-four hour per day of residential care, only the therapeutic services provided are