Wisconsin Administrative Code › Department of Health Services › DHS 30-100 - Community Services › Chapter DHS 36 - Comprehensive Community Services For Persons With Mental Disorders And Substance-Use Disorders › Subchapter I - General Provisions › Section DHS 36.03 - Definitions

Current through June 24, 2024
In this chapter:
(1) "Adult" means an individual 18 years of
				  age or older.
(2) "Assessment"
				  means the process used to identify the strengths, needs and desired outcomes of
				  a consumer and to evaluate progress toward desired outcomes.
(3) "Certification" means the approval by the
				  department of a comprehensive community services program.
(4) "Comprehensive community services
				  program" or "CCS" has the same meaning as "community-based psychosocial service
				  program" under s. 49.45 (30e),
				  Stats., namely a county-wide or tribal community-based psychosocial
				  rehabilitation program that is operated by a county department or tribe to
				  provide or arrange for the provision of psychosocial rehabilitation
				  services.
(5) "Coordination
				  committee" means a group of individuals appointed by the county department or
				  tribal government to advise and assist the county department or tribal
				  government in the development and quality improvement of psychosocial
				  rehabilitation services.
(6)
				  "Comprehensive community services plan" means the plan developed under s.
				  DHS
				  36.07.
(7)
				  "Consumer" means an individual who has been determined to need psychosocial
				  rehabilitation services.
Note:
Family members of the consumer or the
					 consumer's primary caregivers also are considered to be consumers, and
					 therefore, may receive services related to the consumer's
					 disorder.
(8) "Co-occurring
				  disorder" means any combination of a substance-use disorder and a mental
				  disorder identified in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorder
				  - Fourth Edition - Text Revision (DSM-IV-TR) published by the American
				  Psychiatric Association.
(9)
				  "County department" means a county department of human services under s.
				  46.23, Stats., or a county
				  department of community programs established under s.
				  51.42, Stats., to administer
				  community mental health and alcohol and drug abuse programs on a single-county
				  or multi-county basis.
(10)
				  "Department" means the Wisconsin department of health services.
(10m) "Elder" means a person who is age 60 or
				  older.
(10r) "Face to face" means
				  engaging in contact with the recipient via in person, real-time interactive
				  audio-visual telehealth, or real-time interactive audio-only
				  telehealth.
(11) "Family member,"
				  means a parent, legal custodian, sibling, spouse, child, or primary caregiver
				  of a consumer.
(11m) "Functionally
				  equivalent" means a service provided via telehealth where the transmission of
				  information is of sufficient quality as to be the same level of service as an
				  in-person visit. Transmission of voices, images, data, or video must be clear
				  and understandable.
(12) "Legal
				  custodian" means an individual to whom legal custody of a minor has been
				  granted by a court in an action under ch. 48 or 767, Stats.
(13) "Legal representative" means any of the
				  following:
(a) A guardian as defined under s.
				  54.01 (10),
				  Stats.
(b) A health care agent as
				  defined in s. 155.01 (4),
				  Stats., if the principal has a finding of incapacity pursuant to s.
				  155.05 (2),
				  Stats.