Current through Register Vol. 43, No. 39, September 26, 2024
(a) Each
participating community mental health center shall provide directly, or through
a contractor, an affiliated center, or any other provider with which the center
has an affiliation agreement, enhanced community support services in extension
of the services required to be provided by K.A.R. 30-60-64, including the
following:
(1) Outreach services designed to
achieve the following:
(A) Identify and
locate persons in the target population, particularly persons who do not often
seek mental health services in traditional ways;
(B) encourage these persons to utilize the
services of the center, its affiliated centers, or other affiliates; and
(C) offer special assistance to
these persons, as required, in order to enable them to utilize the services of
the center, its affiliated centers, or other affiliates;
(2) public education about the enhanced
services that are available at the center or through its contractors,
affiliated centers, or other affiliates;
(3) liaison services with any nursing
facilities for mental health that are located in the center's service area or
to which a person from the center's service area has been admitted, designed to
facilitate the discharge of persons residing in those nursing facilities who
could live in the community with the assistance and support provided by the
services available through the center, its affiliated centers, or other
affiliates;
(4) any services
necessary to provide any treatment required to fulfill a court order for
outpatient treatment that is issued by the district court of any county within
the service area of the center; and
(5) attendant care services, designed as an
extension of the center's basic outpatient treatment services, basic case
management services for adults, basic community-based support services for
children, adolescents, and their families, and basic case management services
for children, adolescents and their families, required by K.A.R. 30-60-64,
tailored specifically to accomplish the following:
(A) To enhance the independence of consumers
in the target population;
(B) to
reduce the risks for the need to be admitted to a state psychiatric hospital
that are known to be associated with consumers in the target population;
(C) to facilitate the discharge of
consumers in the target population who have been admitted to any state
psychiatric hospital; and
(D) to
otherwise assist consumers in the target population to be able to live in the
community.
(b) Each center shall adopt and adhere to
written policies and procedures that shall require all of the following:
(1) The services required to be provided by
this regulation shall be provided by staff who are supervised by professionals
who are sufficiently qualified by education and experience.
(2) The caseloads of staff members providing
these services shall be monitored and managed to ensure the quality of the
services provided.
(3) No consumer
shall be denied access to any of these services solely on the basis of any
previous unsuccessful intervention or experience.
(4) Continuity shall be maintained, whenever
possible, in any relationship that might be established between a consumer and
staff member that provides any services to that consumer.
(5) Appropriate staff shall be encouraged to
provide the majority of their services to consumers in settings outside of the
offices of the center.
(c) If a participating community mental
health center elects to provide any of these enhanced community support
services through any contractor, affiliated center, or other provider with
which the center has an affiliation agreement, the center shall regularly
monitor that contractor, center, or provider to ensure compliance with the
requirements of this regulation and the quality of the services that are
provided.
