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• Developing and implementing training programs designed to assist children/individuals in the various self-help, domestic living, and community awareness skills areas. • Developing a plan of care. • Locating, coordinating, and developing resources to meet the family’s and individual’s needs. • Arranging services and providing transportation to services. • Providing information to other service providers about the person’s history and level of functionality necessary to plan, deliver, monitor, and adjust services. • Monitoring progress and compliance with the plan of care by the family/consumer and by service providers. • With the consumer’s consent, informing members of the consumer’s family or service providers of changes in the person’s condition or of support necessary to obtain optimal benefit of services. • Revising the plan of care when necessary. • Recording the delivery of coordinated services. • Counseling to assist the household in getting needed services. • Preparing for and appearing in court on behalf of the consumer if such appearances will assist the consumer in gaining needed services. • Providing a monthly grant to assist the family with the higher cost of providing for a child with a profound or severe intellectual or developmental disability in the home. B. Clinical assessments are available for children that need assessments or evaluations by a social worker or psychologist. The assessments provide information that can be used to assist the individual’s team to develop a support plan to help the family remain intact. A rural clinic’s intake evaluation will meet the definition of assessment services unless special psychological testing is required to refine diagnosis. The intake evaluation is a comprehensive procedure that includes a demographic description, presenting problem, mental status examination, risk assessment (suicidal, homicidal), prior treatment, various histories such as employment, health, family, education, legal, drug and alcohol, and diagnosis (DSM-IV). C. Counseling services are available to children and their family members to provide support and guidance in problem identification and resolution in areas of personal adaptation, including interpersonal relationships, social-sexual issues, self-esteem, community participation, independence, families, friends, and work. It may include skill development in socialization, self-direction, and problem solving. This service does not have utilization limitations and is provided based on the recipient’s need to assure health, safety, and welfare in the community.