<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta charset="UTF-8" /><title></title><meta name="Generator" content="PowerTools for Open XML" /><style>span { white-space: pre-wrap; } p.sb1c7eaeb-f58f-497d-aa5c-01653c3c453dP0 { margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; text-indent: 0.00in; text-align: justify; background: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 108%; } span.sb1c7eaeb-f58f-497d-aa5c-01653c3c453dC0 { color: #000000; background: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0; padding: 0; } span.sb1c7eaeb-f58f-497d-aa5c-01653c3c453dC0-000000 { color: #0000FF; background: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin: 0; padding: 0; } span.sb1c7eaeb-f58f-497d-aa5c-01653c3c453dC0-000001 { color: #000000; background: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin: 0; padding: 0; } span.sb1c7eaeb-f58f-497d-aa5c-01653c3c453dC0-000002 { color: #0000FF; background: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0; padding: 0; } span.sb1c7eaeb-f58f-497d-aa5c-01653c3c453d000003 { color: #000000; background: white; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0; padding: 0; } p.sb1c7eaeb-f58f-497d-aa5c-01653c3c453dP0-000004 { margin-top: 0; line-height: 115.0%; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; text-indent: 0.00in; text-align: left; background: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; } </style></head><body><div><p dir="ltr" class="sb1c7eaeb-f58f-497d-aa5c-01653c3c453dP0"><span xml:space="preserve" class="sb1c7eaeb-f58f-497d-aa5c-01653c3c453dC0">    </span><a href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Rules?Rule=67:62:11:01"><span class="sb1c7eaeb-f58f-497d-aa5c-01653c3c453dC0-000000">67</span><span class="sb1c7eaeb-f58f-497d-aa5c-01653c3c453dC0-000000">:</span><span class="sb1c7eaeb-f58f-497d-aa5c-01653c3c453dC0-000000">62</span><span class="sb1c7eaeb-f58f-497d-aa5c-01653c3c453dC0-000000">:</span><span class="sb1c7eaeb-f58f-497d-aa5c-01653c3c453dC0-000000">11</span><span class="sb1c7eaeb-f58f-497d-aa5c-01653c3c453dC0-000000">:</span><span class="sb1c7eaeb-f58f-497d-aa5c-01653c3c453dC0-000000">01</span></a><span class="sb1c7eaeb-f58f-497d-aa5c-01653c3c453dC0-000001">.  Eligibility criteria.</span><span xml:space="preserve" class="sb1c7eaeb-f58f-497d-aa5c-01653c3c453dC0"> To be eligible for services </span><span xml:space="preserve" class="sb1c7eaeb-f58f-497d-aa5c-01653c3c453dC0">under § </span><a href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Rules?Rule=67:62:11:02"><span class="sb1c7eaeb-f58f-497d-aa5c-01653c3c453dC0-000002">67:62:11:02</span></a><span xml:space="preserve" class="sb1c7eaeb-f58f-497d-aa5c-01653c3c453dC0">, </span><span class="sb1c7eaeb-f58f-497d-aa5c-01653c3c453dC0">the clinical record</span><span xml:space="preserve" class="sb1c7eaeb-f58f-497d-aa5c-01653c3c453dC0"> must</span><span xml:space="preserve" class="sb1c7eaeb-f58f-497d-aa5c-01653c3c453dC0"> contain documentation that indicates:</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="sb1c7eaeb-f58f-497d-aa5c-01653c3c453dP0"><span xml:space="preserve" class="sb1c7eaeb-f58f-497d-aa5c-01653c3c453d000003"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" class="sb1c7eaeb-f58f-497d-aa5c-01653c3c453dP0"><span xml:space="preserve" class="sb1c7eaeb-f58f-497d-aa5c-01653c3c453dC0">    (1)</span><span xml:space="preserve" class="sb1c7eaeb-f58f-497d-aa5c-01653c3c453dC0">  </span><span xml:space="preserve" class="sb1c7eaeb-f58f-497d-aa5c-01653c3c453dC0">At least one child in the family under the age </span><span class="sb1c7eaeb-f58f-497d-aa5c-01653c3c453dC0">of eighteen</span><span xml:space="preserve" class="sb1c7eaeb-f58f-497d-aa5c-01653c3c453dC0"> meets the criteria of </span><span class="sb1c7eaeb-f58f-497d-aa5c-01653c3c453dC0">serious emotional disturbance,</span><span xml:space="preserve" class="sb1c7eaeb-f58f-497d-aa5c-01653c3c453dC0"> as</span><span xml:space="preserve" class="sb1c7eaeb-f58f-497d-aa5c-01653c3c453dC0"> provided</span><span xml:space="preserve" class="sb1c7eaeb-f58f-497d-aa5c-01653c3c453dC0"> in SDCL </span><a href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Statutes?Statute=27A-15-1.1"><span class="sb1c7eaeb-f58f-497d-aa5c-01653c3c453dC0-000002">27A-15-1.1</span></a><span class="sb1c7eaeb-f58f-497d-aa5c-01653c3c453dC0">; or</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="sb1c7eaeb-f58f-497d-aa5c-01653c3c453dP0"><span xml:space="preserve" class="sb1c7eaeb-f58f-497d-aa5c-01653c3c453dC0">    (2)</span><span xml:space="preserve" class="sb1c7eaeb-f58f-497d-aa5c-01653c3c453dC0">  </span><span xml:space="preserve" class="sb1c7eaeb-f58f-497d-aa5c-01653c3c453dC0">At least one youth who is eighteen years of age or older, but less than twenty-one years of age, needs a continuation of services started before the age of eighteen, in order to realize specific goals, or assist in the transition to adult services, and meets the criteria of serious emotional disturbance, provided in SDCL subdivisions </span><a href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Statutes?Statute=27A-15-1.1"><span class="sb1c7eaeb-f58f-497d-aa5c-01653c3c453dC0-000002">27A-15-1.1</span></a><span class="sb1c7eaeb-f58f-497d-aa5c-01653c3c453dC0">(2)(3)(4) and (5)</span><span class="sb1c7eaeb-f58f-497d-aa5c-01653c3c453dC0">.</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="sb1c7eaeb-f58f-497d-aa5c-01653c3c453dP0"><span xml:space="preserve" class="sb1c7eaeb-f58f-497d-aa5c-01653c3c453d000003"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" class="sb1c7eaeb-f58f-497d-aa5c-01653c3c453dP0"><span xml:space="preserve" class="sb1c7eaeb-f58f-497d-aa5c-01653c3c453dC0">    </span><span class="sb1c7eaeb-f58f-497d-aa5c-01653c3c453dC0-000001">Source:</span><span xml:space="preserve" class="sb1c7eaeb-f58f-497d-aa5c-01653c3c453dC0"> </span><span class="sb1c7eaeb-f58f-497d-aa5c-01653c3c453dC0">43</span><span xml:space="preserve" class="sb1c7eaeb-f58f-497d-aa5c-01653c3c453dC0"> SDR </span><span class="sb1c7eaeb-f58f-497d-aa5c-01653c3c453dC0">80</span><span xml:space="preserve" class="sb1c7eaeb-f58f-497d-aa5c-01653c3c453dC0">, effective </span><span class="sb1c7eaeb-f58f-497d-aa5c-01653c3c453dC0">December 5, 2016; 50 SDR 63, effective November 27, 2023</span><span class="sb1c7eaeb-f58f-497d-aa5c-01653c3c453dC0">.</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="sb1c7eaeb-f58f-497d-aa5c-01653c3c453dP0"><span xml:space="preserve" class="sb1c7eaeb-f58f-497d-aa5c-01653c3c453dC0">    </span><span class="sb1c7eaeb-f58f-497d-aa5c-01653c3c453dC0-000001">General Authority:</span><span xml:space="preserve" class="sb1c7eaeb-f58f-497d-aa5c-01653c3c453dC0"> SDCL </span><a href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Statutes?Statute=1-36-25"><span class="sb1c7eaeb-f58f-497d-aa5c-01653c3c453dC0-000002">1-36-25</span></a><span xml:space="preserve" class="sb1c7eaeb-f58f-497d-aa5c-01653c3c453dC0">, </span><a href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Statutes?Statute=27A-5-1"><span class="sb1c7eaeb-f58f-497d-aa5c-01653c3c453dC0-000002">27A-5-1</span></a><span class="sb1c7eaeb-f58f-497d-aa5c-01653c3c453dC0">.</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="sb1c7eaeb-f58f-497d-aa5c-01653c3c453dP0"><span xml:space="preserve" class="sb1c7eaeb-f58f-497d-aa5c-01653c3c453dC0">    </span><span class="sb1c7eaeb-f58f-497d-aa5c-01653c3c453dC0-000001">Law Implemented:</span><span xml:space="preserve" class="sb1c7eaeb-f58f-497d-aa5c-01653c3c453dC0"> SDCL </span><a href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Statutes?Statute=27A-3-1"><span class="sb1c7eaeb-f58f-497d-aa5c-01653c3c453dC0-000002">27A-3-1</span></a><span xml:space="preserve" class="sb1c7eaeb-f58f-497d-aa5c-01653c3c453dC0">, </span><a href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Statutes?Statute=27A-5-1"><span class="sb1c7eaeb-f58f-497d-aa5c-01653c3c453dC0-000002">27A-5-1</span></a><span class="sb1c7eaeb-f58f-497d-aa5c-01653c3c453dC0">.</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="sb1c7eaeb-f58f-497d-aa5c-01653c3c453dP0-000004"><span xml:space="preserve" class="sb1c7eaeb-f58f-497d-aa5c-01653c3c453d000003"> </span></p></div></body></html>