(1) Family support specialist services provide support and interventions to parents and youth, under the guidance of the home-based therapist. These services may include:

(a) assisting the therapist in family therapy by providing feedback to the in-home therapist about observable family dynamics;

(b) providing education to parents regarding their child's mental illness;

(c) coaching, supporting, and encouraging parenting techniques learned through parenting classes and/or family therapy;

(d) providing, as necessary, parenting skills specific to the child;

(e) participating in family activities in order to assist parents in applying specific parenting methods in order to change family dynamics;

(f) working with youth to develop wellness recovery tools such as a wellness recovery action plan tool kit; and

(g) serving as a member of the crisis intervention team.

(2) Family support specialist services are provided by appropriate community agencies with the capacity to offer this service to parent or legal guardians of youth with serious emotional disturbance (SED).

(3) The provider of family support specialists must:

(a) ensure that its employees providing family support specialist services have a Bachelor's degree in human services;

(b) be knowledgeable about family systems and dynamics;

(c) have three years experience working with youth with SED and their families;

(d) ensure the family support specialists follow the plan of care developed by the wraparound team; and

(e) ensure that any employee providing family support services has attended a wraparound facilitation training sanctioned by the department or has been trained by someone within the community agency who has attended a wraparound facilitation training sanctioned by the department.

(4) A family support specialist may be a licensed mental health professional in the state of Montana that includes one of the following:

(a) licensed clinical professional counselor;

(b) licensed clinical social worker; or

(c) licensed clinical psychologist.

(5) A family support specialist who is also a licensed mental health professional cannot provide any other waiver services or state plan services for the youth.