PAL Services

When a region places a youth or young adult who must receive PAL services into foster care in another region, the conservatorship region’s PAL staff must notify the placement region’s PAL staff through a referral, so that the placement region can provide PAL training and services. If the PAL staff in the conservatorship region has progressed the youth’s case to the PAL stage in IMPACT, the PAL staff must include that information in the referral.

The placement region must ensure that PAL services are available to eligible youth or young adults placed in the region.

The conservatorship region’s PAL staff must document the PAL services that the conservatorship region has already provided to the youth or young adult, and must ensure that all appropriate data is entered in IMPACT. When forwarding documentation, the PAL staff must indicate if the information has been entered into IMPACT.

The placement region’s PAL staff must provide the conservatorship region’s PAL staff with documentation of PAL services to the youth or young adult occurring in the placement region. The PAL staff in the region providing services must enter PAL information in IMPACT, unless negotiated with the other PAL staff. The responsible PAL staff must complete data entry monthly.

Once the substitute care (SUB) stage of service closes, if a young adult is receiving PAL aftercare services, the PAL staff in the region where the young adult resides must document and enter PAL services in IMPACT.

PAL Payments

The conservatorship region must pay for the PAL transitional living allowance. The conservatorship region may pay the transitional living allowance and optional services if funding is not available in the placement region.

The placement region must pay for:

  •   Independent Life Skills Assessment;

  •   PAL Life Skills training;

  •   incentive to attend PAL Life Skills training sessions (if provided in the region);

  •   Case Management services; and

  •   Aftercare Room and Board expenses.