1. A. An individual treatment and service plan shall be filed with the court within the thirty (30) days after any child has been adjudicated to be delinquent or in need of supervision. Said plan shall be filed by the person, department or agency responsible for the supervision of the case or by the legal custodian if the child has been removed from the custody of its lawful parent or parents. The treatment and service plan shall include but not be limited to:

   1. 1. A history of the child and family, including identification of the problems leading to the adjudication;

   2. 2. Based upon a comprehensive assessment and evaluation of the child and family which shall include, in the case of a delinquent child, a risk-assessment of the child:

      1. a. identification of the specific services to be provided to the child to remediate or alleviate the conditions that led to the adjudication, including but not limited to educational, vocational educational, medical, drug or alcohol abuse treatment, or counseling or other treatment services, and
      2. b. identification of the services to be provided to the parent, legal guardian, legal custodian, stepparent, other adult person living in the home or other family members, to remediate or alleviate the conditions that led to the adjudication, including services needed to assist the family to provide proper care and supervision of the child. If the child is placed outside the home, the service plan shall include the services to be provided during and after any such placement;

   3. 3. If the child is to be placed outside the home, the service plan shall state:

      1. a. the reasons for such placement and a statement as to the unavailability or in appropriateness of local placement, or other good cause, for any placement more than forty (40) miles from the home of the child,
      2. b. the services to be provided to the child while in such placement and the projected date of discharge,

      3. c. the services necessary to assist the child to reintegrate with the child's family or other

         community-based placement, and

      4. d. if the child is age sixteen (16) or older, the services necessary to make the transition from community placement to independent living;
   4. 4. Performance criteria that will measure the progress of the child and family toward completion of the treatment and service plan;
   5. 5. A projected date for the completion of the treatment and service plan; and
   6. 6. The name and business address of the attorney representing the child, if any.
2. B. Whenever a child who is subject to the provisions of this section is committed for inpatient mental health treatment pursuant to the Inpatient Mental Health Treatment of Children Act, the individual treatment and service plan shall be amended as necessary and appropriate, including but not limited to identification of the treatment and services to be provided to the child and his family upon discharge of the child from inpatient mental health treatment.

Laws 1995, HB 1978, c. 352, § 131, emerg. eff. July 1, 1995.