Florida Administrative Code
63 - DEPARTMENT OF JUVENILE JUSTICE
63N - Mental Health/Substance Abuse/Developmental Disability Services
Chapter 63N-1 - SERVICE DELIVERY
Section 63N-1.0035 - Retaining a Designated Mental Health Authority or Clinical Coordinator

(a) Each facility with an operating capacity of 100 or more youths, each facility providing DJJ Specialized Treatment Services and every Detention Center shall employ or contract with a single Licensed Mental Health Professional to act as the Designated Mental Health Clinician Authority for the facility or program, or if the facility or program contracts with an agency or corporate entity, rather than a single Licensed Mental Health Professional, then a single Licensed Mental Health Professional within the agency or corporate entity shall be identified as the Designated Mental Health Clinician Authority for the DJJ facility or program.

(b) The Designated Mental Health Clinician Authority must be onsite in the DJJ facility/program at least once a week for a sufficient time period to ensure that appropriate coordination and implementation of mental health and substance abuse services is taking place.

(a) Each facility that does not meet any of the criteria in paragraph (1)(a), above, shall identify either a Designated Mental Health Clinician Authority or a Clinical Coordinator to be responsible for coordinating and verifying implementation of Necessary and Appropriate Mental Health and Substance Abuse Treatment services in the facility/program.

(b) Identification of a non-licensed Mental Health Clinical Staff Person as a Clinical Coordinator does not confer upon the non-licensed Mental Health Clinical Staff Person the authority to provide clinical supervision of clinical staff.