PURPOSE: This rule sets forth the requirements for outreach services and requires outreach training.

1. (1) Area agencies shall provide outreach services to identify elderly persons and inform them of the availability of services. Outreach efforts should have special emphasis on the rural elderly and on those with the greatest economic or social need. With respect to nutrition services, outreach efforts should ensure that the maximum number of eligible persons have an opportunity to receive services.

2. (2) The area agency shall provide outreach training to outreach workers which shall include, but not be limited to, the following:

   1. (A) An understanding of the limits to which workers can serve persons contacted;
   2. (B) Problems of the elderly;
   3. (C) Methods of working with the elderly;
   4. (D) Sensitivity to needs of the minority elderly; and
   5. (E) Procedures for conducting outreach services and assessing effectiveness of outreach activities conducted.

AUTHORITY: section 660.050, RSMo 1986.* This rule was previously filed as 13 CSR 15- 6.175. Original rule filed Jan. 6, 1986, effective April 30, 1986.

*Original authority: 660.050, RSMo 1984, amended 1988.