New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 14 - DEPARTMENT OF MENTAL HYGIENE › Chapter XIII - Office of Mental Health › Part 575 - Community Support Services For The Mentally Ill › Section 575.4 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
(a) Commissioner is
				the Commissioner of Mental Health.
(b) Community support services are those
				clinical, social, rehabilitative, related administrative and other mental
				health and support services which are provided within the community and which
				enhance community living skills while preventing the unnecessary
				hospitalization of the seriously and chronically mentally ill individual who is
				determined to be eligible for such services pursuant to section
				575.6 
				of this Part.
(c) Community support
				services program is a comprehensive program of community support services
				established under the jurisdiction of the Commissioner of Mental Health, funded
				by the Office of Mental Health and administered through the local government
				plan. It is designed to provide core services and a case manager system as
				essential elements of an individual's service program for purposes of extending
				community tenure and improving the quality of life.
(d) Contract agency means a provider of
				services, other than a local governmental unit, which contracts with the Office
				of Mental Health to provide community support services.
(e) Core services means the ongoing
				management, coordination, and monitoring of the implementation of the community
				support services program within a defined geographical area as determined in
				the local government plan.
(f) Core
				service agency is a local governmental unit which receives community support
				services funding or a provider of services which has contracted with a local
				governmental unit to provide such core services.
(g) Designated adult home means an adult care
				facility, licensed by the Commissioner of Social Services pursuant to article 7
				of the Social Services Law, which has been designated by the Commissioner of
				Mental Health as containing a significant number of seriously and chronically
				mentally ill individuals who are in need of community support
				services.
(h) Designated shelter
				for the homeless means a shelter for the homeless, licensed by the Commissioner
				of Social Services pursuant to article 7 of the Social Services Law, which has
				been designated by the Commissioner of Mental Health as containing a
				significant number of seriously and chronically mentally ill individuals who
				are in need of community support services.
(i) Designated single room occupancy
				residence means a single room occupancy, as defined in the Multiple Dwelling
				Law or the Multiple Residence Law, which has been designated by the
				Commissioner of Mental Health as containing a significant number of seriously
				and chronically mentally ill individuals who are in need of community support
				services.
(j) Direct contract means
				a contract between the Office of Mental Health and a provider of services other
				than a local governmental unit. Such contract shall require the provision of
				specified units of community support services, administrative services or
				management/monitoring services to be provided by the provider of services which
				shall be funded by the Office of Mental Health.
(k) Director means the director of community
				services, who is the chief executive officer of the local governmental unit, by
				whatever title known.
(l)
				Functionally disabled means a severe, chronic disability which is caused by a
				medically determined mental illness, as evidenced by a principal psychiatric
				diagnosis, which is likely to continue for a prolonged period, and which
				results in substantial functional limitations in three or more of the following
				areas: self-care, social functioning, activities of daily living, economic
				self-sufficiency, self-direction, and ability to concentrate.
(m) Local government is a county, except a
				county within the City of New York, and the City of New York.
(n) Local government plan is the local
				services plan, as defined in section 41.18  of the Mental Hygiene Law, or the
				unified services plan, as defined in sections 41.19, 41.21 and 41.23  of the
				Mental Hygiene Law. Such plan outlines current local or unified services and
				contains a comprehensive proposal for the annual, intermediate and long range
				plans and expenditures by the local governmental unit and by providers of
				services pursuant to contracts with the local governmental unit.
(o) Local governmental unit means the unit of
				local government given authority in accordance with article 41 of the Mental
				Hygiene Law to provide services in accordance with the local government plan
				for the mentally ill.
(p) Nurse is
				an individual who is currently licensed as a registered professional nurse by
				the New York State Education Department.
(q) Provider of services means a local
				governmental unit, voluntary agency, proprietary agency, association or
				corporation which provides services for the community support services eligible
				population.
(r) Psychiatrist is an
				individual currently licensed as a physician by the New York State Education
				Department, who is a diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and
				Neurology or is eligible to be certified by that board, or is certified by the
				American Osteopathic Board of Neurology and Psychiatry or is eligible to be
				certified by that board.
(s)
				Psychologist is an individual who is currently licensed as a psychologist by
				the New York State Education Department.
(t) Qualified residence means a community
				residence, residential care center for adults, family care home, or residential
				treatment facility for children and youth which is licensed or operated by the
				Office of Mental Health.
(u) Social
				worker is an individual who is either currently licensed as a certified social
				worker by the New York State Education Department or has a master's degree in
				social work from a program approved by the New York State Education
				Department.