Rhode Island Code of Regulations › Title 212 - Department of Behavioral Healthcare, Developmental Disabilities and Hospitals › Chapter 30 - Self-Sufficiency Fund › Subchapter 00 - N/A › Part 1 - Self Sufficiency Trust Fund › Section 212-RICR-30-00-1.3 - DEFINITIONS

Current through June 14, 2024
A. "Community provider" or "Provider" means
				 those community agencies which are licensed or certified by the Department or
				 other State agency to provide services to persons with developmental
				 disabilities, mental illness, or other eligible individuals.
B. "Data profile" mean a document describing
				 the details of the Life Care Plan in terms of specific services required by the
				 Participant and projected dates on which these services are needed.
C. "Department" means the Rhode Island
				 Department of Behavioral Healthcare, Developmental Disabilities and
				 Hospitals.
D. "Director" means the
				 Director of the Department of Behavioral Healthcare, Developmental Disabilities
				 and Hospitals.
E. "Financial plan"
				 means a plan describing the amount of principal required to be contributed to
				 the Self-Sufficiency Trust to pay for the services described in the Life Care
				 Plan with earnings generated by the principal.
F. "Life care plan" means the plan developed
				 between the donor and the Self-Sufficiency Trust which includes the services
				 expected to be required by the Participant throughout his or her life. The plan
				 projects when the services are likely to be needed and their anticipated
				 costs.
G. "Participant" means an
				 individual beneficiary enrolled with a Self-Sufficiency Trust for whom services
				 and/or goods are being funded in whole or in part by the Self-Sufficiency Trust
				 or an individual beneficiary of the Public-Sector Fund for the Disabled. An
				 otherwise qualified Participant does not have to be eligible for or receiving
				 services from the Department in order to be an enrolled beneficiary.
H. "Private charitable fund" means the fund
				 established from residual assets of the Private Trust Fund of deceased
				 beneficiaries and from other bequests, gifts, or monies which the Board may
				 receive.
I. "Private trust fund"
				 means the pooled assets of each family participating in the Self-Sufficiency
				 Trust.
J. "Private vendor" means an
				 agency or an individual able to provide goods and/or services not available
				 through community providers. The Board may contract with private vendors to
				 provide goods and/or services in accordance with the Participant's Life Care
				 Plan when the goods and/or services are not otherwise available from a
				 community provider.
K.
				 "Public-sector fund for the disabled" means the special restricted receipt fund
				 established pursuant to R.I. Gen. Laws §
										40.1-21-17.
				 The Director may accept money from any source for deposit into the fund and the
				 Director shall also receive earnings from the principal of the Private
				 Charitable Fund. The money in this fund shall be used by the Department for the
				 purpose of providing for the care and treatment of low-income, persons with
				 mental illness, developmental disabilities, and persons otherwise eligible for
				 Department services.
L.
				 "Self-sufficiency trust" means the trust created pursuant to R.I. Gen. Laws §
										40.1-21-15 to provide for the care, encouragement and treatment of persons with
				 developmental disabilities, mental illness, or persons otherwise eligible for
				 the services of the Department.
M.
				 "Self-Sufficiency Trust Board of Trustees" or "Board" means the individuals who
				 establish policies, contract for necessary services for the Self-Sufficiency
				 Trust and control the Private Trust Fund and the Private Charitable
				 Fund.