Washington Administrative Code › Title 388 - Social and Health Services, Department of › AGING AND ADULT SERVICES › Chapter 388-101 - Certified community residential services and supports › DEFINITIONS › Section 388-101-3000 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 24-14, July 15, 2024
The definitions in this section apply throughout this
					 chapter and chapter 388-101D WAC unless the context clearly indicates
					 otherwise.
(1)
"Abandonment"
has the same meaning as defined in
				  RCW
				  74.34.020.
(2)
"Abuse"
has the same meaning
				  as defined in
				  RCW
				  74.34.020.
(3)
"Associated with the
				  applicant"
means any person listed on the application as a partner,
				  officer, director, or majority owner of the applying entity, or who is the
				  spouse or domestic partner of the applicant.
(4)
"Case manager"
means the
				  developmental disabilities administration case resource manager or social
				  worker assigned to a client.
(5)
"Certification"
means a process used by the department to
				  determine if an applicant or service provider complies with the requirements of
				  this chapter and is eligible to provide certified community residential
				  services and support to clients.
(6)
"Chaperone agreement"
means
				  a plan or agreement that describes who will supervise a community protection
				  program client when service provider staff is not present. This plan or
				  agreement is negotiated with other agencies and individuals who support the
				  client, including the client's legal representative and family.
(7)
"Chemical restraint"
has the
				  same meaning as defined in
				  RCW
				  74.34.020.
(8)
"Client"
means a person who
				  has a developmental disability as defined in
				  RCW
				  71A.10.020(4) and has been
				  determined eligible to receive services by the developmental disabilities
				  administration under chapter 71A.16 RCW. For purposes of informed consent and
				  decision making requirements, the term "client" includes the client's legal
				  representative to the extent of the representative's legal authority.
(9)
"Client services"
means
				  instruction and support services that service providers are responsible to
				  provide as identified in the client's individual support plan.
(10)
"Consent"
means express
				  written consent granted after the vulnerable adult or their legal
				  representative has been fully informed of the nature of the services to be
				  offered and that the receipt of services is voluntary.
(11)
"Crisis diversion"
means
				  temporary crisis residential services and supports provided to clients at risk
				  of psychiatric hospitalization and authorized by the developmental disabilities
				  administration.
(12)
"Crisis
				  diversion bed services"
means crisis diversion that is provided in a
				  residence maintained by the service provider.
(13)
"Crisis diversion support
				  services"
means crisis diversion that is provided in the client's own
				  home.
"Department"
means the Washington state
					 department of social and health services.
(14)
"Financial exploitation"
has the same meaning as defined in
				  RCW
				  74.34.020.
(16)
"Functional assessment"
means a comprehensive evaluation of a client's challenging behavior(s). This
				  evaluation is the basis for developing a positive behavior support
				  plan.
(17)
"Group
				  home"
means a residence that is licensed as either an assisted living
				  facility or an adult family home by the department under chapter 388-78A or
				  388-76 WAC. Group homes provide community residential instruction, supports,
				  and services to two or more clients who are unrelated to the
				  provider.
(18)
"Group
				  training home"
means a certified nonprofit residential facility that
				  provides full-time care, treatment, training, and maintenance for clients, as
				  defined under
				  RCW
				  71A.22.020(2).
(19)
"Immediate"
or
"immediately"
means within twenty-four hours for purposes of
				  reporting abandonment, abuse, neglect, or financial exploitation of a
				  vulnerable adult.
(20)
"Immediate risk,"
"immediate threat,"
or
"imminent danger"
means serious physical harm to or death of a
				  client or serious threat to a client's life, health, or safety.
(21)
"Individual financial plan"
means a plan describing how a client's funds will be managed when the service
				  provider is responsible for managing any or all of the client's
				  funds.
(22)
"Individual
				  instruction and support plan"
means a plan developed by the service
				  provider and the client. The individual instruction and support plan:
(a) Uses the information and assessed needs
				  documented in the individual support plan to identify areas the client would
				  like to develop;
(b) Includes
				  client goals for instruction and support that will be formally documented
				  during the year; and
(c) Must
				  contain or refer to other applicable support or service information that
				  describes how the client's health and welfare needs are to be met (such as,
				  individual financial plan, positive behavior support plan, cross system crisis
				  plan, individual support plan, individual written plan, client-specific
				  instructions).