Authority: IC 12-13-2-3; IC 12-13-5-3

Affected: IC 12-17-15

Sec. 5. The SPOE shall support the development of procedures to ensure that, in the event of exceptional circumstances that make it impossible to complete the evaluation and assessment within the required forty-five (45) day time period specified in 470 IAC 3.1-8-3, the intake coordinator will:

1. (1) document those circumstances;
2. (2) develop and implement an interim IFSP, to the extent appropriate; and
3. (3) assemble and maintain all available data and information, to the extent feasible, until the IFSP process can be completed, or forward the information to the appropriate entities for inclusion in a subsequent IFSP.

(Division of Family Resources; 470 IAC 3.1-9-5; filed Jan 29, 1996, 5:15 p.m.: 19 IR 1342; filed Mar 9, 1999, 2:05 p.m.: 22 IR 2263; readopted filed Jul 12, 2001, 1:40 p.m.: 24 IR 4235; readopted filed Oct 24, 2007, 11:25 a.m.: 20071121-IR-470070448RFA; readopted filed Aug 23, 2013, 3:36 p.m.: 20130918-IR-470130306RFA; readopted filed Nov 13, 2019, 11:56 a.m.: 20191211-IR-470190490RFA; readopted filed Oct 8, 2025, 3:15 p.m.: 20251105-IR-470240501RFA)