Pennsylvania Code › Title 55 - HUMAN SERVICES › Part IV - Adult Services Manual › Subpart D - Nonresidential Agencies/Facilities/Services › Chapter 2380 - ADULT TRAINING FACILITIES › GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 2380.3 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 28, July 13, 2024
The following words and terms, when used in this chapter,
						have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates
						otherwise:
Adult
-A person 18 years of age or
						older.
Adult training facility
or
facility
-A building or portion of a building in which services
						are provided to four or more individuals, who are 59 years of age or younger
						and who do not have a dementia-related disease as a primary diagnosis, for part
						of a 24-hour day, excluding care provided by relatives. Services include the
						provision of functional activities, assistance in meeting personal needs and
						assistance in performing basic daily activities.
Department
-The Department of Human
						Services of the Commonwealth.
Direct service worker
-A person whose
						primary job function is to provide services to an individual who attends the
						facility.
Fire safety expert
-A local fire
						department, fire protection engineer, State certified fire protection
						instructor, college instructor in fire science, county or State fire school,
						volunteer fire person trained by a county or State fire school or an insurance
						company loss control representative.
Health care practitioner
-A person who is
						authorized to prescribe medications under a license, registration or
						certification by the Department of State.
Individual
-An adult with disabilities
						who receives care in an adult training facility and who has developmental needs
						that require assistance to meet personal needs and to perform basic daily
						activities. Examples of adults with disabilities include adults who exhibit one
						or more of the following:
(i) A
					 physical disability such as blindness, visual impairment, deafness, hearing
					 impairment, speech or language impairment, or a physical handicap.
(ii) A mental illness.
(iii) A neurological disability such as
					 cerebral palsy, autism or epilepsy.
(iv) An intellectual disability.
(v) A traumatic brain injury.
Individual plan
-A coordinated and
						integrated description of activities and services for an individual.
Restraint
-A physical, chemical or
						mechanical intervention used to control acute, episodic behavior that restricts
						the movement or function of the individual or a portion of the individual's
						body, including an intervention approved as part of the individual plan or used
						on an emergency basis.
Services
-Actions or assistance provided
						to the individual to support the achievement of an outcome.
Volunteer
-A person who is an organized
						and scheduled component of the service system and who does not receive
						compensation, but who provides a service through the facility that recruits,
						plans and organizes duties and assignments.
The provisions of this §
													2380.3 amended under 201(2),
						  403(b), 403.1(a) and (b), Articles IX and X of the Human Services Code
						  (62
						  P.S. §§
														201(2),
						  403(b), 403.1(a) and (b),
						  901-922 and 1001-1088); and section 201(2) of the Mental Health and
						  Intellectual Disability Act of 1966 (50 P.S. §
														4201(2)).
This section cited in 55 Pa. Code §
													2380.33 (relating to program
						  specialist).