California Code of Regulations
Title 9 - Rehabilitative and Developmental Services
Division 6 - Division of Juvenile Justice
Chapter 5 - Health Care Services
Article 3 - Mental Health
Section 30656 - Availability of Mental Health Services

Universal Citation: 9 CA Code of Regs 30656

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 38, September 20, 2024

(a) The Department shall provide wards, who have been diagnosed by a Youth Authority Global Assessment of Function (YA-GAF) as having a mental disorder, with available mental health treatment services.

(b) Mental health services shall be provided in a manner consistent with the community standards of mental health care.

(c) The goal shall be to achieve a standardized and integrated system of care designed to augment current treatment programs and to create a continuum of services as follows:

(1) Treatment in a Correctional Treatment Center (CTC), which provides licensed hospital inpatient acute and nonacute care.

(2) Treatment in an Intensive Treatment Program (ITP), which provides residential intensive treatment.

(3) Treatment in a Special Counseling Program (SCP) which provides residential specialized counseling services and therapy.

(4) Treatment while housed in a general population program, which provides therapy with a psychiatrist or psychologist.

1. Change without regulatory effect adopting article 3 (sections 30656-30664) and renumbering title 15, section 4742 to title 9, section 30656 filed 2-13-2020 pursuant to section 100, title 1, California Code of Regulations (Register 2020, No. 7).

Note: Authority cited: Section 1712, Welfare and Institutions Code. Reference: Sections 1001, 1002, 1004, 1752 and 1755.3, Welfare and Institutions Code.

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