Wisconsin Administrative Code › Department of Health Services › DHS 30-100 - Community Services › Chapter DHS 66 - Treatment alternative program › Section DHS 66.02 - Definitions

Current through June 24, 2024
In this chapter:
(1)
				"Admission" means that a potential client has undergone an assessment and has
				been found appropriate to participate in TAP.
(2) "Alcohol abuse" means the use of alcohol
				for non-medical purposes in a manner which interferes with one or more of the
				following: the person's physical health, psychological functioning, social
				adaptation, educational performance or occupational functioning.
(3) "AODA" means alcohol or other drug
				abuse.
(4) "Assessment" means the
				evaluation of a potential client's suitability for substance abuse
				treatment.
(5) "Case management
				plan" means an individualized plan for securing, coordinating and monitoring
				the appropriate treatment interventions and services for a TAP client's
				successful treatment and criminal justice system outcome.
(6) "Client" means a person who has been
				assessed by the TAP agency and found to be in need of treatment.
(7) "Criminal justice system" means the
				officers, agencies and officials engaged in detecting, apprehending,
				prosecuting, adjudicating and maintaining custody of or supervising persons who
				have committed crimes.
(8)
				"Criminal justice system component" means any functioning part of the criminal
				justice system from law enforcement through parole supervision.
(9) "Criterion" means a standard, principle
				or test by which a potential TAP client is measured to determine whether he or
				she is suitable for AODA treatment.
(10) "Department" means the Wisconsin
				department of health services.
(11)
				"Drug dependent" has the meaning prescribed in s.
				51.01(8),
				Stats., namely, a person who uses one or more drugs to the extent that the
				person's health is substantially impaired or his or her social or economic
				functioning is substantially disrupted.
(12) "Identification" means the act of
				establishing whether someone accused or convicted of a crime is potentially
				eligible for TAP.
(13) "Monitoring"
				means supervising or overseeing clients through the application of specific
				criteria to determine progress and success or failure.
(14) "Potential client" means a person
				referred by a criminal justice system component to a TAP agency for
				assessment.
(15) "Professional
				staff" means a TAP agency staff member who has direct responsibility for the
				provision of TAP services to clients.
(16) "Referral" means the assignment by a
				criminal justice system component of a potential client to a TAP agency for
				assessment or the assignment by a TAP agency of a client to the most
				appropriate, available treatment agency.
(17) "RFP" means a request for proposals, a
				document issued by the department to solicit applications for project support,
				and which defines project priorities, who may apply for funding, the amounts
				available for support of given types of projects, the term of projects,
				application procedures and review criteria.
(18) "Screening" means a systematic
				examination of all accused or convicted offenders at a particular point in
				criminal justice system processing to determine their potential suitability for
				TAP.
(19) "TAP" means the treatment
				alternative program authorized under s.
				46.65,
				Stats., to provide alcohol or other drug abuse services, as a treatment
				alternative in lieu of incarceration for eligible persons in need of those
				services.
(20) "TAP agency" means
				an agency or organization under s.
				DHS
				66.03(1) that meets the requirements
				of this chapter and either has been awarded a grant by the department to
				provide TAP services or has not been awarded a grant by the department for this
				purpose.
(21) "Treatment" means
				psychological, educational, social, chemical, medical or somatic techniques
				designed to bring about rehabilitation of an alcohol or other drug dependent
				person.
(22) "Treatment agency"
				means a public or private agency that is approved by the department under ch.
				DHS 61 to provide AODA treatment services.
(23) "Urinalysis" means examination of urine
				samples by various technical methods to determine the presence or absence of
				specified drugs or their metabolized traces.
(24) "Voluntary informed consent" means
				agreement by a potential client to participate in TAP after a thorough
				explanation of its advantages and disadvantages, including potential benefits,
				sanctions by the criminal justice system, TAP agency and treatment agency rules
				and the likely consequences of successful or unsuccessful
				termination.