New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 14 - DEPARTMENT OF MENTAL HYGIENE › Chapter XXI - OFFICE OF ALCOHOLISM AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE SERVICES › Part 823 - Outpatient Chemical Dependency Services For Youth Programs And Services › Section 823.4 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
For purposes of this Part, the following terms are
				  defined:
(a) "Certified Recovery Peer
				Advocate - Family Peer Advocate" (CRPA-FPA) means a parent or caregiver with
				lived experience who is authorized by the Office.
(b) "Certified Recovery Peer Advocate - Youth
				Peer Advocate" (CRPA-YPA) means a self-identified consumer recipient of
				behavioral health services, aged 18-28, who is authorized by the
				Office.
(c) "Child/youth" or
				"children/youth" means a person or persons aged twenty-one (21) and under for
				purposes of the services as defined in this Part.
(d) "Children's Behavioral Health and Health
				Services Transformation Medicaid State Plan Provider Manual" (Manual) means the
				guide describing six children's health and behavioral health benefits approved
				pursuant to the Medicaid State Plan (the Manual is incorporated by reference
				pursuant to Part 800 of this Title).
(e) "Children's services" means health and
				behavioral health services as defined in 18 NYCRR Part 507 and authorized by
				the NYS Department of Health to be provided by certified treatment providers
				pursuant to rules and regulations of the Office.
(f) "Crisis plan" means a plan developed in
				consultation with the child/youth, their family and their crisis intervention
				provider; it may also be shared with other providers with the family's consent.
				The crisis plan is developed to reduce or manage crisis related symptoms,
				promote healthy behavior, address safety concerns, and prevent or reduce the
				risk of harm or diffusion of dangerous situations.
(g) "Early Periodic Screening and Diagnostic
				Treatment" (EPSDT) means the provision of comprehensive and preventive health
				and behavioral health services for children/youth under age twenty-one (21)
				enrolled in Medicaid. EPSDT is intended to ensure that such children/youth
				receive appropriate preventive, dental, health, behavioral health,
				developmental and specialty services.
(h) "Evidence based practice" (EBP) means an
				intervention for which there is rigorous scientific evidence demonstrating
				their effectiveness or efficacy in improving child/youth outcomes.
(i) "Family" means the primary caregiving
				unit and is inclusive of the wide diversity of primary caregiving units such as
				birth, foster and adoptive parents or a self-created unit of people with
				significant attachment to one another.
(j) "Licensed practitioner of the healing
				arts" (LPHA) mean s an individual who is licensed and practicing within the
				scope of their state license and may recommend rehabilitative services.
A Licensed practitioner of the healing arts includes:
(1) A Registered Professional
				Nurse;
(2) Nurse
				Practitioner;
(3)
				Psychiatrist;
(4) Licensed
				Psychologist;
(5) Licensed Clinical
				Social Worker (LCSW);
(6) Mental
				Health Practitioner including: a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC), a
				marriage and family therapist (LMFT), a creative arts therapist (LCAT), and
				licensed psychoanalyst.
(7)
				Physician.
(8) A Licensed Master
				Social Worker and Physician Assistant who are licensed and practicing within
				the scope of their state license may recommend rehabilitation services only
				where noted in the Manual.