AGENCY: Department of Health and Human Services. Division of Services for People with Disabilities

SERIES: 80133
TITLE: Inactive small group homes
DATES: 1984-2009.
ARRANGEMENT: Alphabetical by client's name

DESCRIPTION: These are the files of clients who have been placed in small group homes. These children may come from the training school as well as other institutions.

RETENTION

DISPOSITION

RETENTION AND DISPOSITION AUTHORIZATION

Retention and disposition for this series is authorized by Archives general schedule Inactive small group home files, GRS-2540

AUTHORIZED: 01/02/2018

FORMAT MANAGEMENT

Paper: Retain in Office for 1 year after case closes and then transfer to State Records Center. Retain in State Records Center for 4 years and then destroy.

APPRAISAL

Administrative Fiscal

It is a federal requirement that the agency have an active outward bound program under title XIX regulations. These records are part of that program. If the record is a duplicate of the client record from the training school, the agency may want to send unduplicated materials to the training school. The training school is keeping the record copy of the client records as the official record copy. If records are not part of or related to training school records, then they must be kept fpt ten years after the age of majority. They will be reevaluated by Archives and DSS to determine research value and need.

PRIMARY DESIGNATION

Controlled

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