The Children's Review Program (CRP) is a unit of the Bluegrass Regional MHMR Board which contracts with the
Department of Community Based Services (DCBS) of the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services.
CRP Mission
The mission of the Children's Review Program is to provide the data and information necessary to support DCBS
workers and providers in their efforts to assure the safety, permanency and well-being of DCBS-committed children,
who are placed in out-of-home care.
Our customers are the adults who are responsible for assessment, treatment planning, service delivery, case
management, program planning, policy analysis, and legislation on behalf of these children.
CRP History
The Children's Review Program (CRP) began in 1995 as a project of the (then) Kentucky Cabinet for Families and
Children and the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Kentucky. The project was designed to assess the
needs of children in the care of the state by assigning them a level of care (LOC) and enabling the Department for
Community-Based Services (DCBS) to make better decisions about how to care for their needs. The higher the LOC, the
greater the supports and services needed by a child. In 1996, the DCBS contract for CRP was transferred to the
Bluegrass Regional MHMR Board, Inc. in Lexington, KY. Since that time, the Cabinet has contracted with CRP to expand
it's role to include assessment, placement, performance measurement, and technical assistance within a continuous
quality improvement model.
CRP Functions
The principal functions of the Children's Review Program are to:
- Assign levels of care (LOCs) based on the
documentation of children's needs.
- Review levels of care periodically to insure that
assigned LOCs continue to represent children's current needs.
- Guide placements by matching children's needs
with the capabilities of private residential and foster care treatment programs.
- Track children through the service
delivery system.
- Collect and analyze data in order to evaluate child, agency and system
outcomes.
- Provide technical assistance through
training and consultation on individuals, programs and systems of care.
- Conduct workgroups composed of CRP staff, DCBS, providers, and topical experts to jointly evaluate and
improve the quality of CRP services