New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 3A - CHILDREN AND FAMILIES › Chapter 58 - CHILDREN'S PARTIAL CARE PROGRAMS › Subchapter 1 - CHILDREN'S PARTIAL CARE PROGRAM STANDARDS › Section 3A:58-1.2 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 14, July 15, 2024
The words and terms in this chapter shall have the following
				  meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
"Authorized consent" means written authorization to provide
				  services or medical care to a youth from that youth's parent, legal guardian, or
				  other person or entity with the legal authority to provide such authorization.
"Children's crisis intervention services" or "CCIS" means an
				  acute care inpatient psychiatric service, under the auspices of the Department of
				  Health, pursuant to
				  N.J.A.C. 8:33-1.3 and
				  8:43G-26.
"Children's partial care program" means a day treatment program
				  offering structured activities for youth including activities for daily living,
				  recreation, and socialization activities and other mental health services based upon
				  the needs of the youth. The term "children's partial care program" shall not include
				  health care facilities licensed by the Department of Health.
"Comprehensive assessment" means the assessment of a youth
				  through consideration of psychological, medical, developmental, substance abuse,
				  spiritual, recreational, and vocational components.
"Comprehensive treatment plan" means the formulation of service
				  and treatment goals, objectives, and interventions based on a comprehensive
				  assessment, which shall include psychological, medical, developmental, substance
				  abuse, spiritual, recreational, and vocational components.
"Counseling" means the use of therapeutic methodologies, which
				  enable individuals and families to resolve problems or temporary stress of
				  situations that they have encountered.
"Daily living skills" means the activities which enable a youth
				  to perform functions for every day living, such as basic housekeeping, grooming,
				  dressing, maintaining schedules, social and recreational activities.
"Department" means the New Jersey Department of Children and
				  Families.
"Group counseling" means the use of group processes and supports
				  to develop in individuals the capacity to overcome specific personal problems or
				  problem conditions.
"Level I standards" means those standards, as specified in this
				  chapter, with which a children's partial care program must be in full compliance in
				  order to be granted or to continue to receive a Department license. Level I
				  standards are those standards that relate most directly to client rights, safety,
				  and staffing.
"Level II standards" means all licensing standards, as specified
				  in this chapter, not designated as Level I.
"License" means a Department document which provides the provider
				  agency with the authority to operate a children's partial care program.
"Seriously emotionally/behaviorally challenged" means a youth
				  exhibiting one or more of the following characteristics: behavioral, emotional, or
				  social impairment that disrupts the youth's academic or developmental progress and
				  may also impact upon family or interpersonal relationship. This disturbance shall
				  have also impaired functioning for at least one year or the impairment shall be of
				  short duration and high severity.
"Therapeutic nursery" means a children's partial care program
				  serving children five years of age and younger, offering children age-appropriate
				  structured activities including activities for daily living, recreation, and
				  socialization activities and other mental health services based upon the needs of
				  the children.
"Treatment setting" means a CCIS unit, psychiatric community home
				  for children, group home, treatment home, residential child care facility,
				  drug/alcohol program, private hospital, or other out-of-home mental health treatment
				  setting.
"Youth" means a person under 18 years of age, but may include
				  persons over 18 and younger than 21 years of age, if eligible to receive partial
				  care services under
				  N.J.A.C.
				  3A:58-1.5(c).