NC Education Code · NC Policy Manual
NC 1506-1.5 Behavior Support Services
Plain English summary
This regulation governs Behavioral Support Service Funds (PRC 29), which are allotted on a needs basis to LEAs to support IEP implementation for children with disabilities who have chronic and acute behavioral/emotional needs. Funds are add-on grants that cannot supplant existing funding sources and must be returned if the approved needs no longer exist. The regulation also addresses ADM counting procedures for students in cooperative treatment programs and establishes DPI monitoring authority over educational service providers.
Key requirements
- All requests for funds must include a completed Behavioral Support Service Funding Request form (with appropriate signatures) and a copy of the student's IEP.
- The IEP shall address all the required components as delineated in NC1503-5.1.
- These funds may not be used to supplant or replace other funding sources (e.g., state aid exceptional children funds).
- They are to be used only to provide services to children with disabilities and accompanying chronic and acute behavioral/emotional needs including students previously served by Department of Health and Human Services as Willie M class members.
- Funds not utilized as approved must be returned as soon as it is determined that the needs stipulated and funded by the original grant proposal no longer exist or have been modified.
- Any student who attends the program for his/her full educational services will be counted in the ADM of the local school administrative unit which is supervising the program until the student returns to full-time status in his/her sending school administrative unit.
- Any student who attends the day treatment and educational program on a part-time basis will remain in the ADM of the sending school administrative unit.
- The Department of Public Instruction through the Exceptional Children Division will monitor all local school administrative units and/or other facilities that are providing educational services to determine if the program is appropriate to meet the needs of the child.
Affected parties
- Students with disabilities with chronic and acute behavioral/emotional needs
- Former Willie M class members served by DHHS
- Local Education Agencies (LEAs)
- Local school administrative units
- Parents of students with disabilities
- Department of Public Instruction Exceptional Children Division
- Cooperative treatment and education program facilities
- Group homes, residential treatment centers, therapeutic homes, and IRT providers