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<section article="gcj" article_name="Courts and Judicial Proceedings" number="3-8A-20.1" title_number="3" title_name="Courts of General Jurisdiction -- Jurisdiction/special Causes of Action" subtitle_number="8A" subtitle_name="Juvenile Causes -- Children Other Than Cinas and Adults">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>In this section, “treatment service plan” means a plan recommended at a disposition hearing under § 3–8A–19 of this subtitle or at a disposition review hearing under this section by the Department of Juvenile Services to the court proposing specific assistance, guidance, treatment, or rehabilitation of a child.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>In making a treatment service plan, a juvenile counselor shall meet with the child who is the subject of the treatment service plan and the child’s parent, guardian, or legal custodian to discuss the treatment service plan.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>If a child’s parent, guardian, or legal custodian is unable or refuses to meet with the juvenile counselor, the treatment service plan shall indicate that the parent, guardian, or legal custodian is unable or refuses to meet, and the reason for the inability or refusal to meet, if known.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>At a minimum, the treatment service plan shall include:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>The recommended level of supervision for the child;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Specific goals for the child and family to meet, along with timelines for meeting those goals;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>A statement of any condition that the child’s parent, guardian, or legal custodian must change in order to alleviate any risks to the child;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>A statement of the services to be provided to the child and child’s family; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="v">
        <text>Any other information that may be necessary to make a disposition consistent with the child’s best interests and the protection of the public interest.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>In making a disposition on a petition under § 3–8A–19 of this subtitle, if the court adopts a treatment service plan, the Department of Juvenile Services shall ensure that implementation of the treatment service plan occurs within 25 days after the date of disposition.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>If a treatment service plan requires specified supervision, mentoring, mediation, monitoring, or placement, implementation of the treatment service plan is considered to have occurred only when the supervision, mentoring, mediation, monitoring, or placement occurs.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>The Department of Juvenile Services shall provide certification in writing to the court within 25 days after the date of disposition whether implementation of the treatment service plan has occurred and explain attempts made to ensure implementation.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>The Department of Juvenile Services shall forward a copy of the certification described in paragraph (3) of this subsection to the Commission on Juvenile Justice Reform and Emerging and Best Practices under § 9–3502 of the State Government Article so that the Commission may evaluate patterns of failed implementation.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>If a treatment service plan is not implemented by the Department of Juvenile Services within 25 days under subsection (b)(3) of this section, the court shall schedule, within 7 days after receipt of the certification, a disposition review hearing to be held within 30 days after receipt of the certification.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The court shall give at least 7 days’ notice of the date and time of the disposition review hearing to each party and to the Department of Juvenile Services.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The court shall hold a disposition review hearing unless the Department of Juvenile Services certifies in writing to the court prior to the hearing that implementation of the treatment service plan has occurred.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>At a disposition review hearing, the court may:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Revise, in accordance with the provisions of § 3–8A–19 of this subtitle, the disposition previously made; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Revise the treatment service plan previously adopted.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>This section may not be construed to provide entitlement to services not otherwise provided by law.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <text>The Supreme Court of Maryland may adopt rules to implement the provisions of this section.</text>
  </level>
</section>
