New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 14 - DEPARTMENT OF MENTAL HYGIENE › Appendices › Appendix 11

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
Additional Definitions
A transitional facility is one that provides services rendered
				at day training centers for social and vocational rehabilitation including
				habilitation and instructional classes, day hospitals, night hospitals, summer
				rehabilitation programs, rehabilitation workshops, activity centers, halfway
				houses or other type of non-permanent domiciliary arrangement, but does not
				include State mental hospital inpatient care, State school residence or
				outpatient psychiatric clinic treatment.
Testing and evaluation are tests, examinations, evaluative or
				diagnostic statements made by a psychiatrist, physician psychologist, social
				worker, rehabilitation specialist, educational specialist, occupational
				therapist or other professional person in a related discipline which appraise a
				person's capacity to acquire occupational skills and acceptable patterns of
				social and employment behavior and that assess the individual's capacity for
				productivity in an educational social or work situation, real or
				simulated.
Therapeutic recreation is a habilitative or rehabilitative
				program consisting of social and recreational activities designed to help the
				mentally retarded person improve his personal adjustment and his relationship
				with others.
A job try-out or on-the-job training is a work experience
				within a sheltered work-shop or in conjunction with outside industry planned
				for the purpose of helping a mentally retarded person acquire employment
				knowledge, develop skills or of assessing his readiness for job
				placement.
Personal adjustment training or work adjustment emphasizes the
				development of adjustment to work rather than the development of a particular
				skill. This may be achieved by long-term exposure to a real work situation
				stressing personal and social skills required to get along with others in a
				work setting the development of work tolerance, appropriate work habits and
				emotional stability in responding to work pressures.
Job placement and follow-up service is that aspect of a
				workshop program in which a mentally retarded person is placed in a job with
				subsequent determination as to whether he has been suitably placed in
				competitive employment to the satisfaction of himself, his family and the
				employer. It also involves a decision as to whether the mentally retarded
				person needs further service and if so what kind.
Supportive services are designed to strengthen the abilities of
				mentally disabled persons to help them move ahead toward maximum independent
				functioning by working with their total environments including home and family,
				job and employer and the community as a whole.
Perceptual-motor training is a service designed to alleviate
				existing developmental deficit in sensory perception, motor learning and
				integrated functioning through a series of graded activities which are based on
				prior evaluation.
Mileu therapy is the total environment of a program including
				physical surroundings, equipment and staff attitudes integrated in such a way
				as to enhance the effectiveness of other therapeutic activities that improve
				the mentally retarded person's abilities.
The following professional disciplines must be licensed,
				certified or registered in the State of New York:
A physician or other specialist in the medical profession must
				have a license to practice medicine in the State of New York and one year of
				acceptable experience. A psychiatrist, in addition must have completed a
				three-year residency in an approved psychiatric program.
A psychologist must be certified in the State of New York.
				Certification is waived for psychologists employed by public agencies.
A social worker must be certified in the State of New York. A
				master's degree from an approved school of social work that includes two years
				of part-time supervised field work is required for certification. Certification
				is waived for social workers employed by public agencies.
A nurse must be registered with the State of New York. To
				qualify for registration a nurse must have graduated from an accredited school
				of nursing that includes the proper academic training and supervised student
				nursing.
A physical therapist or speech therapist must be licensed by
				the State of New York.
A teacher in a rehabilitation program in an institution must
				hold a bachelor's degree from a recognized four-year college or university,
				which includes satisfactory completion of the necessary hours in the subject of
				the teaching specialty or specialties.
Other specialists including occupational therapists, for whom
				licensure, certification or registration is not required by New York State must
				be eligible for membership in their national standard-setting
				organization.
(1) Section
			 100.3(d)
			 (1)  of the New York State Community Mental
			 Health Services Program reads in part: ". . . . Psychiatric consultation shall
			 be required in the selection of persons to be served and psychiatric
			 supervision shall be required in all instances where the program includes
			 medical treatment."
Section
				100.3(d)
				(2)  reads in part: ". . . . Rehabilitation
				services shall be considered to include day training centers for those
				suffering from or who have suffered from mental illness, mental deficiency,
				epilepsy or behavior or emotional disorders who are not eligible for special
				educational classes in public school because of age, or who are so handicapped
				by their disorders in the opinion of medical and/or psychological and/or
				educational authorities as to be unsuitable for special education classes in
				public schools."
Discharge policies shall take the following into
				consideration:
The child has been accepted for regular or special classes in
				the public school system.
The adult has been placed in a job and requests no further
				service from the day training center or workshop except possibly occasional
				follow-up to check on current job status.
The client requires another service not offered by the day
				training center.
The client and his family have moved out of the geographic area
				served by the day training center.
The client shows gross lack of cooperation with the agency
				program and procedures or is found to be disruptive to the disadvantage of
				other program participants.
The following certifications or approvals are required if
				applicable. In relation to premises:
Written approval by the local fire department that the premises
				are fire-safe.
Approval from the building department that the building or
				space in the building is in safe repair for the purposes or the program.
Written indication where required front the zoning authority
				that the day training center is in the proper zone.
Certificate of occupancy from the building department that the
				premises may be used for a day training center unless the program is housed in
				a pubic [public] building in which case this requirement is waived.
Approval as required by the health and sanitation department if
				food is prepared on the premises.