R539-10-5. Selection for Short-Term Limited Respite Care Services

  (1) Non-lapsing Funds may be available to provide short-term limited respite care services for persons determined eligible who are on the Division's waiting list.

  (2) If the Division determines that sufficient funds are available to provide short-term limited respite care services, persons will be selected to receive short-term limited respite care according to the following method:

  (a) The Division shall identify all persons on the waiting list who have indicated that they are in need of respite services;

  (b) Persons identified by the Division as needing respite services, who had not been selected to receive respite services in the previous selection period, shall be grouped together, from which the Division shall use a random selection process to select persons to receive short-term limited respite care services.

  (c) if the Division determines that sufficient funds are available to provide additional short-term limited respite care services, after all persons who had not been selected to receive respite services during the previous selection period have been given an opportunity to receive short-term limited respite care services, the Division may use a random selection process to select persons to receive short-term limited respite care services from the remaining persons on the waiting list who have indicated that they are still in need of respite services regardless of whether the person had been selected previously.

  (d) a sibling of a person selected to receive short-term limited respite care services, at the discretion of the Division, may also be selected to receive short-term limited respite care services in the same selection period despite not being selected.

  (3) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Division Emergency Services Management Committee (ESMC) may select a person on the waiting list to receive short-term limited respite care services if the ESMC determines that short-term limited respite care services are appropriate to address the emergency circumstances faced by the person.