New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 14 - DEPARTMENT OF MENTAL HYGIENE › Chapter XIV - Office for People With Developmental Disabilities › Part 690 - Day Treatment Services to Persons with Developmental Disabilities › Section 690.99 - Glossary

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
(a)
Administrator.
A party holding qualified intellectual disability
				  professional (QIDP) status, designated by the governing body to be responsible
				  and accountable for the day-to-day operation of the day treatment
				  facility.
(b)
Administrator, assistant.
A party who is a qualified intellectual disability
				  professional (QIDP), who assists the administrator in the daily operation of
				  the program, and serves in place of the administrator in the administrator's
				  absence.
(c)
Admission.
The formal acceptance of a person to the day treatment
				  facility, based on the recommendations of an interdisciplinary treatment team
				  whose conclusions are derived from a review of available assessments that are
				  current and acceptable to the team, or on preliminary screenings conducted by
				  qualified professionals during the applicant's enrollment period. The decision
				  to admit allows for an additional 21 working days for staff to develop or
				  complete assessments and prepare the person's initial individual program
				  plan.
(d)
Advocate.
For the purposes of this Part, a party chosen to assist the
				  person with the development, implementation, review and revision of the
				  services, support, and activities that the person chooses in order to attain
				  his or personal life goals and the outcomes associated with his/ her individual
				  program plan. The advocate must be 18 years or older and may include an
				  involved parent or other member of the family, legal guardian, friend or member
				  of the community who is not providing direct services to the person pursuant to
				  the individual program plan and who is not employed by an entity providing
				  direct services to the person. However, an ombudsperson at a development
				  center, appointed pursuant to section 13.34  of the Mental Hygiene Law, may also
				  be considered as a person's choice for his/her advocate. The fact that someone
				  is functioning in the role of advocate for a person does not endow that party
				  with any legal authority over the person's affairs unless they also happen to
				  be the adult person's guardian or the parent of a minor.
(e)
Agency.
A unit of government, a voluntary not-for-profit corporation,
				  or any other party or organization which intends to establish or operate a day
				  treatment facility for persons with developmental disabilities.
(f)
Agency/facility.
As used in this Part, a term used to indicate that the stated
				  requirement needs to be considered in relation to the administrative structure
				  of both the agency and the site- specific facility and acted upon accordingly.
				  This is to be distinguished from the term
agency
used alone
				  which means the "agent" or operator of a facility operated or certified by
				  OPWDD. In the case of State-operated facilities, the Developmental Disabilities
				  Services Offices (DDSO) is considered to be the "agency."
(g)
Assessment.
The process, supervised by appropriately qualified
				  professionals, that identifies the present medical and/or developmental status
				  of a person, including diagnosis; his or her capabilities, capacities and
				  needs; and the conditions that impact upon a person's development. Assessments
				  include, but are not limited to, determination of a person's functional
				  capacities and adaptive behavior using primarily assessment techniques
				  (
e.g.,
interview, observation) and instruments appropriate to
				  the person in question as determined by the assessing clinician, but whenever
				  possible having established empirically reliable and valid norms of
				  performance. All assessments which address at least the physical, mental and
				  psychosocial functioning aspects of a person taken together, analyzed and
				  synthesized by the interdisciplinary treatment team, constitute a comprehensive
				  functional assessment which forms the basis for developing an appropriate
				  individual program plan of therapies, interventions and activities.
(h)
Assessment comprehensive
				functional.
In order to develop a person's individual program plan using
				  an interdisciplinary treatment team process, it is necessary that the
				  interdisciplinary treatment team take into consideration a person's age and the
				  implications for active treatment, and, as part of that process must:
(1) identify the person's capabilities and
				disabilities, and where possible, their causes;
(2) identify the person's specific
				developmental strengths;
(3)
				identify the person's specific developmental and behavioral management
				needs;
(4) identify the person's
				need and preferences for services without regard to the actual availability of
				the services needed;
(5) include an
				assessment of physical development and health, nutritional status, sensorimotor
				development, affective development, speech and language development and
				auditory functioning, cognitive development, social development, adaptive
				behaviors or independent living skills necessary for the person to be able to
				function in the community, and vocational skills, if applicable; and
(6) include obtaining direct input from the
				person himself/herself (as is feasible), and also from the person's
				parent/guardian or correspondent/advocate, as applicable in each circumstance.
The completion of the comprehensive functional assessment
				  provides the team with the necessary information to address each person's needs
				  in priority order, and focuses team decisions regarding each need. Annually
				  thereafter, the comprehensive functional assessment is to be reviewed by the
				  interdisciplinary treatment team for relevancy and updated as needed, and the
				  individual program plan revised, as appropriate.