Local LCT partners include: Queen Anne’s Co. Public Schools, Queen Anne’s Co. Department of Health, Queen Anne’s County Addiction and Prevention Services, Developmental Disabilities Administration, Queen Anne’s Co. Department of Social Services, Mid-Shore Behavioral Health, Inc., the Maryland Coalition of Families, Department of Juvenile Services, Queen Anne’s County Local Management Board, Division of Rehabilitation Services (DORS), Wraparound Maryland, Eastern Shore Mobile Crisis, and more.

Under Maryland Code (Human Services §8-407) a Local Care Team shall: 

1) be a forum for: 

    a) families of children with intensive needs to receive assistance with the identification of individual needs and potential resources to meet identified                 needs; and 

    b) interagency discussions and problem solving for individual child and family needs and systemic needs; 

2) refer children and families to: 

    a) care management entities when appropriate; and 

    b) available local and community resources; 

3) provide training and technical assistance to local agency and community partners; 

4) identify and share resource development needs and communicate with the care management entity, local core service agencies, provider networks, local management boards, and other local care teams in surrounding jurisdictions; and 

5) discuss a request for a voluntary placement agreement for a child with a developmental disability or a mental illness under § 5-525 of the Family Law Article.