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<section article="ghu" article_name="Human Services" number="8-407" title_number="8" title_name="Children, Youth, and Families" subtitle_number="4" subtitle_name="Services to Children With Special Needs">
  <text>A local care team shall:</text>
  <level label="1">
    <text>be a forum for:</text>
    <level label="i">
      <text>families of children with intensive needs to receive assistance with the identification of individual needs and potential resources to meet identified needs; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="ii">
      <text>interagency discussions and problem solving for individual child and family needs and systemic needs;</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="2">
    <text>refer children and families to:</text>
    <level label="i">
      <text>care management entities when appropriate; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="ii">
      <text>available local and community resources;</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="3">
    <text>provide training and technical assistance to local agency and community partners;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="4">
    <text>identify and share resource development needs and communicate with the care management entity, local core service agencies, or local behavioral health authority, provider networks, local management boards, and other local care teams in surrounding jurisdictions; and</text>
  </level>
  <level label="5">
    <text>discuss a request for a voluntary placement agreement for a child with a developmental disability or a mental illness under § 5–525 of the Family Law Article.</text>
  </level>
</section>
