Title 21 · WY
14-6-227 or 14-6-427 shall include:
Citation: Wyo. Stat. § 14-6-227
Section: 14-6-227
14-6-227 or 14-6-427 shall include:
(i) A description of efforts to provide services to the child in the home prior to placement;
(ii) Contact with other agencies involved with the child. At a minimum, those contacted shall include the child's school and the field office of the department of family services;
(iii) The presence of any preexisting and identified handicapping conditions;
(iv) A review of the financial resources of the child's parent or guardian;
(v) A certification by the department of family services that funding for the placement is available within the appropriation. The placement of the child shall not be funded under this section if the department of family services is unable to make the certification. The department of family services shall make the certification only if unencumbered funds are available within the appropriation making allowance for the costs for children already placed. Funds shall not be certified available if an adequate, less restrictive, less expensive placement is available;
(vi) The names of persons and agencies contacted in preparing the report; and
(vii) If an out-of-state placement is under consideration, the name, address, program description and costs of each Wyoming institution and each private residential treatment facility and group home located in Wyoming that the department of family services has determined can provide adequate treatment or services for the child, and whether placement in the in-state institution, treatment facility or group home is available.
(e) If at any time the placement is found to be educationally inappropriate or not the least restrictive placement available, the placement shall be referred back to the court with a recommendation on what would be a suitable placement.
(f) Only group homes and residential treatment facilities certified by the department of family services are eligible to receive funding for residential and treatment services under this section. Costs for education services shall be paid by the department of education under this section only if the educational program of the group home or residential treatment facility or the program provided by the board of cooperative educational services meets the standards of subsection (b) of this section and has been approved by the department. The department of family services and the department of education shall provide the courts with a list of approved facilities and services. The court shall determine the parents' or the guardian's contribution to the court ordered placement for all costs excluding necessary education costs based on the parents' or guardian's ability to pay as provided by W.S. 14-6-236 or