New Jersey Administrative Code
Title 10 - HUMAN SERVICES
Chapter 37B - COMMUNITY SUPPORT SERVICES FOR ADULTS WITH SERIOUS MENTAL ILLNESSES
Subchapter 2 - ACCESSING COMMUNITY SUPPORT SERVICES
Section 10:37B-2.2 - Freedom of choice

(a) Each consumer found eligible for community support services may select one agency that will be his or her primary services provider.

(b) The Division will make reasonable efforts to make choices available in all areas of the State, and to communicate those options to consumers.

(c) Within each agency, the consumer will have access to a primary service coordinator who will be identified as the primary point of contact, and while this person may provide a majority of services and interventions, the consumer will have access to a team of community support workers.

(d) Consumers have the option of selecting different staff within an agency, or a different agency, if desired.

(e) Some community support services may be designed to operate as programs for targeted population subgroups of consumers who live in consumer-rented or consumer-owned housing, and eligibility for those programs may have additional clinical requirements provided in contracts with the Division; as such, those programs may not be available to all consumers. They currently include "enhanced supportive housing," "medically enhanced supportive housing," "at risk (of homelessness) supportive housing," and consumers served by a "residential intensive support team (RIST)" or "medically enhanced RIST."