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STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA FFY 2024 STATE PLAN FOR TEMPORARY ASSISTANCE FOR NEEDY FAMILIES
the student has a documented deficit. Tutoring is not to be used for regular homework completion. This will be reported as expenditure under services for children and youth.
● Case Management Services - services that assist child welfare recipients to gain access to needed medical, behavioral health, social, educational and other services. Case Management Services are to be provided at a level of intensity required by the recipient. Services must be provided in settings accessible to the recipient. The individual must be given the option of whether to utilize case management services. Within case management, there are several activities that are recognized as components of case management. These components include linkage/referral, advocacy, family crisis response planning, and service plan evaluation.
● Public Transportation - Reimbursement for transportation of children related to visitation with parents, child attending visitation with pre-adoptive parents or adoption-related activities explicitly documented on the DoHS’s child case plan, or the provision of transportation on buses, planes, and/or trains. This may be used for local bus passes or long-distance bus tickets. Rental Cars, tolls if a rental car is used, taxi fares and parking are also included in this service. This service can be used for bus passes for a parent attending visitation with his/her child. This service is for transportation to medical services in which non-emergency medical transportation (NEMT) could not be accessed and/or to participate in services/treatment, office visits, Multidisciplinary Treatment Team meetings, reviews, and court hearings explicitly documented on the DoHS’s service plan. The least costly means available must be utilized. This service covers the fare for the shortest practical route to/from the traveler’s destination.
● Private Transportation - to provide reimbursement for foster parents who attend Multidisciplinary Treatment Team meetings, reviews, and court hearings explicitly documented on the DoHS service plan. Private Transportation is also for reimbursement of the biological parent(s) of mileage traveled to participate in visitation with the child, services/treatment, office visits, Multi-Disciplinary Treatment Team meetings, reviews, and court hearings explicitly documented on the DoHS treatment plan. This service can be used for the transportation of a foster child to medical services in which Page 27