CHAPTER 3. SILVERCREST CHILDREN'S DEVELOPMENT CENTER
IC 16-33-3
Chapter 3. Silvercrest Children's Development Center
IC 16-33-3-1
Center defined
Sec. 1. As used in this chapter, "center" refers to the Silvercrest
children's development center.
As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.16.
IC 16-33-3-2
Establishment
Sec. 2. The Silvercrest children's development center is
established as a state center.
As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.16.
IC 16-33-3-3
Care provided
Sec. 3. The center shall provide for the educational diagnosis,
evaluation, assessment, short term remediation, referral, and care of
children who may benefit from such service, but who, because of
serious disabling conditions, cannot make satisfactory progress in the
programs of public schools or special institutions of the state. The
provision of services shall be for the purpose of properly referring
these children to more appropriate programs operated by other
agencies or institutions and providing reassessment of these children
as indicated.
As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.16. Amended by P.L.23-1993, SEC.73;
P.L.142-1995, SEC.14.
IC 16-33-3-4
Administration
Sec. 4. The state department shall administer the center. The state
health commissioner, subject to IC 20-35-2, has complete
administrative control and responsibility for the center.
As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.16. Amended by P.L.1-2005, SEC.144.
IC 16-33-3-5
Programs of center
Sec. 5. The center shall provide the following:
(1) Educational diagnosis, needs assessment, evaluation, short
term remediation, reassessment, referral, and follow-up, in
cooperation with other agencies or institutions, necessary to
assure continuity of services and proper placement.
(2) Short term training and retraining allowable within the
confines of the client's stay to permit the client to achieve
maximum potential to benefit from the services of the receiving
agency or institution.
(3) Reassessment of clients whose behavioral needs, family
structure, or services available at a receiving agency or
institution change to the extent that the original assessment of
the client's needs are no longer descriptive or useful to the
client, the client's family, or the receiving agency or institution.
As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.16.
IC 16-33-3-6
Director; appointment and qualifications
Sec. 6. (a) The director of the center is responsible for the
immediate supervision of the center.
(b) The state health commissioner shall appoint the director of the
center. The director of the center must possess the following
qualifications:
(1) The director must possess the appropriate knowledge, skill,
and ability in education or rehabilitation.
(2) The director must have experience and association with
training programs for persons with multiple disabilities.
(3) The director must have a master's degree or higher degree.
(4) The director must be competent and qualified to provide the
administrative services essential to the achievement of the
center's intended goals.
As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.16. Amended by P.L.23-1993, SEC.74.
IC 16-33-3-7
Director; powers and duties
Sec. 7. (a) The director of the center, subject to the approval of
the state health commissioner, has complete charge and management
of the center and is charged with the direction of the development
program for the clients in attendance.
(b) The director of the center is the chief appointing authority for
all employees necessary to properly conduct and operate the center.
As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.16.
IC 16-33-3-8
Clients; qualifications
Sec. 8. Subject to the review and approval of the department of
education and the state health commissioner or the commissioner's
designee, the director of the center shall receive as clients in the
center children with multiple disabilities who meet the following
conditions:
(1) Are expected to benefit from residence in the center as part
of an individualized education program (as defined in
IC 20-18-2-9).
(2) Are residents of Indiana.
(3) Possess at least two (2) major disabling conditions.
(4) Are less than twenty-two (22) years of age.
(5) Whose admissions have been approved by the department
of education in accordance with the procedures implementing
IC 20-35-6-2.
As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.16. Amended by P.L.23-1993, SEC.75;
P.L.142-1995, SEC.15; P.L.291-2001, SEC.220; P.L.1-2005,
SEC.145.
IC 16-33-3-8.5
Placement review committee
Sec. 8.5. (a) A placement review committee for the center is
established. The committee consists of one (1) representative of each
of the following:
(1) The office of the secretary of family and social services.
(2) The state department.
(3) The superintendent of public instruction.
(b) The placement review committee shall meet on a quarterly
basis to review the following:
(1) Applications to the center denied through the process
described in section 8 of this chapter.
(2) All instances of dismissal from the center for reasons other
than graduation, voluntary transition to another educational
facility, or voluntary departure from the center.
(c) The director shall serve as an advisor to the placement review
committee. The director shall provide the placement review
committee with information and justification for all application
denials and dismissals under review.
(d) The placement review committee may recommend that
application denials or dismissals be reconsidered.
As added by P.L.55-1997, SEC.6. Amended by P.L.253-1997(ss),
SEC.17.
IC 16-33-3-9
Duties of parents and center to provide for child's care
Sec. 9. (a) The center shall provide tuition, board, room, laundry,
and ordinary medical attention, including emergencies.
(b) The parents, guardian, or other persons shall provide medical,
optical, and dental care involving special medication or prostheses.
(c) When a client is properly admitted to the center, the client's
parents, guardian, responsible relative, or other person shall suitably
provide the client with clothing at the time of the client's entrance
into the center and during the client's stay at the center.
(d) The client's parent or guardian shall bear the cost of
transportation not required by the client's individualized education
program (as defined by IC 20-18-2-9). The school corporation in
which the client has legal settlement shall bear the cost of
transportation required by the client's individualized education
program under IC 20-35-8-2.
(e) The client's parents, guardian, or responsible relative or other
person shall provide incidental expense money needed by the client.
As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.16. Amended by P.L.1-2005, SEC.146.
IC 16-33-3-10
Parents of child in center unable to pay for costs for services;
payment by county
Sec. 10. Whenever the circuit court having jurisdiction finds,
upon application by the county office of the division of family
resources, that the parent or guardian of a client placed in the center
is unable to meet the costs that the parent or guardian is required to
pay for the services of the center, the court shall order payment of the
costs from the county general fund.
As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.16. Amended by P.L.4-1993, SEC.236;
P.L.5-1993, SEC.249; P.L.146-2008, SEC.436; P.L.44-2009,
SEC.31.
IC 16-33-3-11
Gifts, legacies, devises, and conveyances
Sec. 11. The director, subject to IC 4-24-3, may receive, for the
use of the center, gifts, legacies, devises, and conveyances of real and
personal property that may be made, given, or granted to or for the
center or in the center's name.
As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.16.