Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 17a - Social and Human Services and Resources › 212a - Placement and Care of Clients Who Pose a Serious Threat to Others › Section 17a-212a-1 - Definitions

Current through July 10, 2024
For the purposes of Sections 17a-212a-1 through
				17a-212a-4
				of the Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies, the following definitions
				shall apply:
(1) "Commissioner" means
			 the Commissioner of the Department of Mental Retardation.
(2) "Department" means the Department of
			 Mental Retardation.
(3) "Deputy
			 commissioner" means the deputy commissioner of the Department of Mental
			 Retardation.
(4) "Forensic
			 coordinator" means the person responsible for the coordination of the forensic
			 process, development of policies and procedures, and serving as liaison to the
			 forensic review committees.
(5)
			 "Forensic process" means all activities associated with the department's
			 statutory role in the criminal justice system and the evaluation and planning
			 associated with persons with mental retardation who may pose a serious threat
			 in the absence of adequate supervision and services.
(6) "Forensic review committee" means a group
			 of persons responsible for implementing and monitoring the forensic process,
			 placements and programs.
(7)
			 "Interdisciplinary team" means a group of persons which includes the person
			 being served, his or her family or guardian, those persons who work most
			 directly with the person in each of the professions, disciplines, or service
			 areas that provide service to the person, including direct care staff; and any
			 other persons whose participation is relevant to identifying the needs of the
			 person, devising ways to meet them, writing an overall plan of services and
			 reviewing the plan's effectiveness.
(8) "Legal responsibility review" means the
			 review process conducted by a forensic review committee by which the
			 department's legal obligations to the client are evaluated. Such reviews
			 include, but are not limited to, evaluations concerning admissions or
			 involuntary placements, and any other statutory, regulatory or judicial
			 requirements or factors relevant to a person's legal relationship with the
			 department.
(9) "Non-community
			 based residential facility" means a specially designed residential facility
			 operated, licensed or funded by the department which is located on a
			 state-owned campus setting or which is otherwise segregated from a neighborhood
			 of private single-family and multi-family homes, apartment complexes and
			 condominiums.
(10) "Regional or
			 training school director" means that person appointed by the commissioner to be
			 directly responsible for the management of one of the department's three
			 regions or of the training school.
(11) "Regional placement committee" means a
			 group of persons who evaluate the availability and appropriateness of programs
			 and placements for the person being served.
(12) "Risk review" means a process which
			 evaluates the degree of serious threat associated with acts or
			 behaviors.
(13) "Risk review
			 screening instrument" means the format developed by the department to analyze
			 factual information relating to clinical, legal, behavioral and psychiatric
			 aspects of the person under review.
(14) "Serious Threat" means the expression,
			 indication or communication by a person of a present intention to cause serious
			 harm to others, to oneself, or serious damage to property.