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:58-1.2 - Definitions
The words and terms in this chapter shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
"Authorized consent" means written authorization to provide services or medical care to a youth from that youth's parent, legal guardian, or other person or entity with the legal authority to provide such authorization.
"Children's crisis intervention services" or "CCIS" means an acute care inpatient psychiatric service, under the auspices of the Department of Health, pursuant to N.J.A.C. 8:33-1.3 and 8:43G-26.
"Children's partial care program" means a day treatment program offering structured activities for youth including activities for daily living, recreation, and socialization activities and other mental health services based upon the needs of the youth. The term "children's partial care program" shall not include health care facilities licensed by the Department of Health.
"Comprehensive assessment" means the assessment of a youth through consideration of psychological, medical, developmental, substance abuse, spiritual, recreational, and vocational components.
"Comprehensive treatment plan" means the formulation of service and treatment goals, objectives, and interventions based on a comprehensive assessment, which shall include psychological, medical, developmental, substance abuse, spiritual, recreational, and vocational components.
"Counseling" means the use of therapeutic methodologies, which enable individuals and families to resolve problems or temporary stress of situations that they have encountered.
"Daily living skills" means the activities which enable a youth to perform functions for every day living, such as basic housekeeping, grooming, dressing, maintaining schedules, social and recreational activities.
"Department" means the New Jersey Department of Children and Families.
"Group counseling" means the use of group processes and supports to develop in individuals the capacity to overcome specific personal problems or problem conditions.
"Level I standards" means those standards, as specified in this chapter, with which a children's partial care program must be in full compliance in order to be granted or to continue to receive a Department license. Level I standards are those standards that relate most directly to client rights, safety, and staffing.
"Level II standards" means all licensing standards, as specified in this chapter, not designated as Level I.
"License" means a Department document which provides the provider agency with the authority to operate a children's partial care program.
"Seriously emotionally/behaviorally challenged" means a youth exhibiting one or more of the following characteristics: behavioral, emotional, or social impairment that disrupts the youth's academic or developmental progress and may also impact upon family or interpersonal relationship. This disturbance shall have also impaired functioning for at least one year or the impairment shall be of short duration and high severity.
"Therapeutic nursery" means a children's partial care program serving children five years of age and younger, offering children age-appropriate structured activities including activities for daily living, recreation, and socialization activities and other mental health services based upon the needs of the children.
"Treatment setting" means a CCIS unit, psychiatric community home for children, group home, treatment home, residential child care facility, drug/alcohol program, private hospital, or other out-of-home mental health treatment setting.
"Youth" means a person under 18 years of age, but may include persons over 18 and younger than 21 years of age, if eligible to receive partial care services under N.J.A.C. 3A:58-1.5(c).
