Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 17 - Public Assistance and Welfare Services › 226d - Minimum Standards of Eligibility for Commission Funding for Private Nonprofit Organizations and Municipalities › Section 17-226d-1 - Definitions

Current through July 10, 2024
For the purpose of sections 1 through 11 inclusive
(A) "Awardee" means the municipality or
			 nonprofit organization which is a recipient of Commission funding.
(B) "Chart of Accounts" means a listing of
			 the various fund accounts, income and expense classifications and their
			 respective numerical designations, if any, that an organization utilizes to
			 account for its financial transactions.
(C) "Client" means a person receiving
			 services from an alcohol or drug abuse treatment program which is a recipient
			 of Commission funding.
(D)
			 "Commission" means the Connecticut Alcohol and Drug Abuse Commission.
(E) "Commission Staff" means one or more
			 persons employed by the Commission in a professional capacity whose duties
			 include responsibility for reviewing and evaluating program
			 performance.
(F) "Continuum of
			 Care" means the array of services including prevention, intervention and
			 treatment services designed to meet a variety of needs resulting from potential
			 or actual substance abuse.
(G)
			 "Counseling Session" means a scheduled meeting of 30 minutes or longer duration
			 where group, individual, or family counseling is provided.
(H) "Direct Costs" means those costs which
			 can be identified specifically with a particular cost objective.
(I) "Eligible Clients" means those persons
			 who are unable, either directly or through third party reimbursement or through
			 a combination of both, to pay the full charge for services provided by an
			 awardee under a fee for service award.
(J) "Employee Assistance" means a service
			 funded by the Commission for the purpose of assisting employers in motivating
			 and referring to appropriate professional assistance, those employees whose
			 personal problems, which may include substance abuse, have seriously interfered
			 with their job performance.
(K)
			 "Excess Payments" means any payment made by the Commission pursuant to a fee
			 for service award which exceeds the amount authorized for the actual services
			 provided.
(L) "Executive Director"
			 means the executive director of the Commission except where the context of a
			 particular section indicates otherwise.
(M) "Fee-For-Service Award" means an
			 agreement between the Commission and an awardee whereby the Commission
			 reimburses the awardee for designated services at a predetermined rate up to a
			 maximum amount specified in the contract or letter of award.
(N) "Governing Authority" means the person or
			 persons with ultimate authority and responsibility for the overall operation of
			 the awardee.
(O) "Grant" means an
			 agreement between the Commission and a private nonprofit organization or
			 municipality whereby the Commission awards funds to carry out specified
			 programs, services or activities related to the prevention of, treatment of, or
			 education about, substance abuse pursuant to the authority of Connecticut
			 General Statutes section 17-226d.
(P) "Indirect Costs" means those costs
			 incurred for a common or joint purpose benefiting more than one cost objective
			 and not readily assignable to the cost objectives specifically
			 benefited.
(Q) "Non competitive
			 continuation award" means a subsequent award made to an awardee based on a
			 history of satisfactory compliance with Commission requirements so that the
			 awardee may continue to offer the services originally funded by the
			 Commission.
(R) "Policy" means a
			 statement of the principles which guide and govern the activities, procedures
			 and operations of a program.
(S)
			 "Probation" means a Commission decision to impose additional conditions on an
			 awardee who is in violation of Commission requirements rather than terminate
			 the awardee's letter of award or contract in order to provide an opportunity
			 for the awardee to come into compliance with Commission requirements.
(T) "Procedure" means a series of activities
			 designed to implement program goals or policy.
(U) "Program" means an organizational entity
			 operated by an awardee which provides alcohol and/or drug abuse related
			 services. A program may be an identified administrative unit within a larger
			 organization or it may consist of more than one component.
(V) "Review and evaluation" means an
			 assessment by Commission staff of an awardee's compliance with Commission
			 regulations and the terms and conditions of the awardee's contract or letter of
			 award. The assessment may include review of an awardee's records, review of an
			 awardee's reports, on site visits, and interviews with the awardee's employees
			 and any persons who receive services from the awardee's program.
(W) "Service Recipient" means a person who
			 receives any type of services from a program which is a recipient of Commission
			 funding.
(X) "State methadone
			 authority" means the person having the powers and duties described in the
			 Federal Methadone Regulations, 21CFR 291.505.
(Y) "Substance abuse" means the use of one or
			 more drugs, including alcohol which significantly and negatively impacts one or
			 more major areas of life functioning.
(Z) "Supplemental funding" means additional
			 funding granted to an awardee by the Commission during the term of the
			 awardee's contract or letter of award.
(AA) "Surplus"means the total amount awarded
			 by the Commission plus the income received by the awardee for award supported
			 activities which exceeds the total of allowable expenses.
(BB) "Terminate" means a unilateral decision
			 by the Commission to end its financial support of an awardee because the
			 awardee has been found to be in violation of Commission requirements.
(CC) "Treatment and rehabilitation" means one
			 or more meetings between a client and a program's treatment staff wherein a
			 broad range of planned services may be extended to the client including
			 diagnostic evaluation, counseling, medical, psychiatric, psychological and
			 supportive services which are designed to influence the behavior of clients
			 toward identified goals and objectives.
(DD) "Treatment staff" means those persons
			 employed by an awardee who are directly involved in client care and
			 treatment.
(EE) "Unallocated funds"
			 means those funds which, although appropriated by the Legislature for use by
			 the Commission, have not been specifically designated for a particular type of
			 recipient by the Commission.
(FF)
			 "Unencumbered funds" means those funds which become available during a fiscal
			 year due to underexpenditure of grant funds by awardees or delayed start-up of
			 newly funded programs.