New Jersey Administrative Code
Title 3A - CHILDREN AND FAMILIES
Chapter 58 - CHILDREN'S PARTIAL CARE PROGRAMS
Subchapter 1 - CHILDREN'S PARTIAL CARE PROGRAM STANDARDS
Section 3A:58-1.1 - Purpose, scope, and goals

Universal Citation: NJ Admin Code 3A:58-1.1

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 18, September 16, 2024

(a) Children's partial care programs provide seriously emotionally/behaviorally challenged youth with a highly structured intensive day treatment program.

(b) Program goals include:

1. Prevention of psychiatric hospitalization of youth at risk of psychiatric hospitalization;

2. Prevention of re-hospitalization of youth who have been psychiatrically hospitalized;

3. Provision of a transition for psychiatrically hospitalized youth from the hospital back into the community; and

4. Provision of services to at-risk children under the age of five years.

(c) Agencies operating children's partial care programs shall:

1. Respect the rights and dignity of youth and family members and when appropriate preserve the family unit;

2. Foster community living by teaching skills and improving functioning;

3. Help each youth to realize his or her potential for learning;

4. Foster healthy interdependence;

5. Help clients develop and use social support systems;

6. Help clients and their family members or legal guardians learn to manage the client's illness in order to prevent relapse, re-hospitalization, or placement in a restrictive environment;

7. Empower clients and families to actively participate in treatment and programming and to determine personal and program goals;

8. Affirm clients' strengths and abilities; and

9. Encourage and support clients' and families' efforts to help each other.

(d) A provider agency operating a children's partial care program shall comply with the provisions of this chapter and N.J.A.C. 10:190.

(e) No children's partial care program shall operate unless it has secured a license from the Department of Children and Families as a children's partial care program.

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