ISSUE | APPROPRIATE | NOT
APPROPRIATE |
| age | ages
4 to 15 years | infants
or adults |
| gender | male
or female | |
| serious
behaviour problems | youth
with personality disorders, learning disabilities, exaggerated emotional and behavioural
difficulties and parental neglect | children
whose behaviour is such a threat to their personal safety that 24 hour awake supervision
is required |
| special
medical conditions or needs | HIV
or Hep B infections, epilepsy, FAS/FAE, diabetes | blind,
deaf, quadriplegia |
| developmental
level | mild
deficits to superior | moderately
handicapped, PDD, including autism |
| family
characteristics | physical
and sexual abuse, serious neglect, parental personality disorders and substance
abuse | |
| willingness
to participate in treatment plan | children
or parents who are unwilling to participate in the treatment plan | children
who persistently refuse to accept placement |
| previous
C.A.S involvement & placements | prior
history of care, previous placements in Children's Mental Health Centres or psychiatric
hospitals | |
| psychological/psychiatric
assessments | not
necessary | |
| academic
history | expelled
from school | |
| court
involvement | under
a YOA probation order, or under care by agreement to crown ward | YOA
custody order |
| | |
