CLTS FS Instructions Module 9 - Screen Time and Notes
Contents
9.1 Screen Completion Date
9.2 Time to Complete Screen
9.3 Final Notes
9.1 Screen Completion Date
The screener enters the Screen Completion Date on the day they finish entering all the required information into the Children's Long-Term Support Functional Screen (CLTS FS) and are prepared to calculate eligibility. The Screen Completion Date is on the last page of the CLTS FS.
Screen “Determined On” Date
This is system-generated and will report the date eligibility was calculated by the system.
9.2 Time to Complete Screen
Face-to-Face Contact with Child and Parent(s) or Guardian
This is time a screener spends doing a home visit with the child and/or their primary caregiver(s).
Collateral Contacts
This is time the screener spent in face-to-face meetings or on the phone with collateral contacts (extended family members, teachers, therapists, health care providers). Do not include time from the home visit (for example, if the child’s teacher is present at the home visit, this is recorded as face-to-face contact even though a teacher is considered a collateral contact).
Paper Work
This is the time the screener spent doing paperwork and research to complete the CLTS FS. Phone contact with the parent or primary caregiver should be included in this category. This does not include intake preparation.
Travel Time
This is the time the screener spent traveling to and from appointments associated with the gathering of information necessary to complete the CLTS FS.
- Write all times as hours and minutes rounded to the nearest 15 minutes.
- The CLTS FS application will sum them up for the total time.
9.3 Final Notes
The primary purpose of the notes is to strengthen and corroborate items checked or not checked on the CLTS FS. If notes are added to existing notes later, the most current notes should always be at the top of the list. Notes are to be entered in the following format:
Date (MM/DD/YY): Comments… Screener initials
In this format, a screener’s comments are written between the date of the note and their initials, reducing the opportunity for other screeners to inadvertently add comments to someone else’s notes. Screeners are responsible for the notes they create.