New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 10 - HUMAN SERVICES › Chapter 73 - CASE MANAGEMENT SERVICES › Subchapter 2 - ADULT CASE MANAGEMENT PROGRAM/MENTAL HEALTH (CMP/MH) › Section 10:73-2.7 - Service responsibilities of staff members of the adult CMP/MH provider

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 14, July 15, 2024
(a) The case
				manager (CM) providing clinical case management services to adults shall:
1. Identify mentally ill beneficiaries in
				need of CMP/MH services regardless of residence (for example: homeless,
				shelter, family, boarding home);
2.
				Provide clinical assessment of the beneficiary's strengths, needs, resources,
				motivation, level of functioning, mental status, and risk category;
3. Provide functional assessment of the
				beneficiary's skills (daily living, self-care, social, vocational, and other
				skills);
4. Provide intensive
				community based engagement services to maximize the beneficiary's access to
				services and ability to function adequately and integrate into the
				community;
5. Provide or arrange
				for direct clinical intervention;
6. Provide assessment of the need for crisis
				intervention, and assistance to providers of psychiatric emergency services in
				resolving crises;
7. Provide
				assessment of the beneficiary's substance abuse symptoms;
8. Provide assessment of available social
				services, health and mental health resources and the ability of these services
				to meet each beneficiary's needs;
9. Develop beneficiary individualized service
				plans with the primary goal to motivate the beneficiary to access,
				appropriately use, and remain in community programs;
10. Develop and monitor a plan for medication
				management for the beneficiary in need of such a plan, in consultation with the
				county mental health system's psychiatric services components;
11. Provide ongoing service planning and
				periodic reviews and revisions of such plans;
12. Provide access to appropriate services,
				and ensure the beneficiary receives needed transportation in order to attend
				services;
13. Ensure that the
				beneficiary engages in the community mental health and non-mental health
				systems through provision of ongoing individualized clinical support and
				monitoring;
14. Provide clinical
				consultation with other providers in a beneficiary's network;
15. Coordinate and integrate services from
				multiple providers until the beneficiary exits from the CMP/MH, which shall
				include coordination of treatment team meetings of the service providers of a
				beneficiary in the community.
16.
				Monitor service delivery to meet a beneficiary's changing needs;
17. Identify resource gaps and problems of
				service delivery, and advocate for the resolution of these issues;
18. Provide direct service support to the
				beneficiary's natural support system, including family, friends, employers,
				self-help and other natural support groups; and
19. Develop discharge plans, in conjunction
				with other State or county psychiatric hospital or short-term care facility
				treatment team members, for beneficiaries assessed as able or willing to access
				or engage in necessary community mental health services after hospital
				discharge.