New York Codes, Rules and Regulations
Title 14 - DEPARTMENT OF MENTAL HYGIENE
Chapter XIII - Office of Mental Health
Part 504 - Placement Of Individuals Leaving Transitional Care Funding
Section 504.4 - Definitions
Universal Citation: 14 NY Comp Codes Rules and Regs ยง 504.4
Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 39, September 25, 2024
(a) Administrative review for purposes of this regulation shall be by the Commissioner of Mental Health or his/her designee. Such review shall be conducted as a hearing pursuant to section 504.6 of this Part.
(b) Appropriate placement and services means meeting an individual's needs for care and treatment, as determined by clinical staff exercising professional judgement.
(c) Commissioner means the Commissioner of Mental Health.
(d) Transitional care for purposes of this Part shall mean care and treatment of persons:
(1) who were placed in foster care by a
social services district pursuant to Article 6 of chapter 600 of the Laws of
1994 and who have become 21 years of age, or who were placed in a residential
educational placement by a school district pursuant to article 89 of the
Education Law and who are no longer eligible for free educational services
because they have completed the school year in which they became 21;
(2) who were disabled and in need of
residential care prior to becoming age 21 or prior to becoming ineligible for
free education services and who have since remained continuously disabled and
continuously in need of residential care;
(3) who became 21 or become ineligible for
free educational services prior to July 1st, 1996;
(4) with respect to whom the Office of Mental
Health, as appropriate, has approved a plan of continued out-of-home care for
the person but has not yet identified a currently available appropriate
placement within those care systems;
(5) whose residential needs can be met by the
facility in which the persons resided prior to becoming age 21 or becoming
ineligible for free educational services; and
(6) with respect to whom approved
expenditures for transitional care currently are being made by a social
services district pursuant to section 466(2) of the Social Services
Law.
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