New York Codes, Rules and Regulations
Title 14 - DEPARTMENT OF MENTAL HYGIENE
Chapter XIII - Office of Mental Health
Part 600 - Crisis Stabilization Centers
Section 600.11 - Staffing

(a) Crisis Stabilization Centers shall continuously employ an adequate number of staff and an appropriate staff composition to carry out their goals and objectives as well as to ensure the continuous provision of sufficient ongoing and emergency supervision. Each Crisis Stabilization Center shall submit a staffing plan which includes the qualifications and duties of each staff position by title. The staffing plan and its rationale shall be subject to approval by the Office. The Office must be notified of and approve significant changes from the approved staffing plan.

(b) This staffing plan shall be based on the population to be served and the services to be provided.

(c) All clinical staff must have at least a high-school diploma or its equivalent.

(d) Supervisory staff: Crisis Stabilization Centers shall have a continuous provision of sufficient ongoing and emergency supervision.

(e) Intensive Crisis Stabilization Centers shall be overseen by a Medical Director who is a physician licensed and currently registered as such as by the New York State Education Department and shall have at least one year of education, training, and/or experience in mental health or substance use disorder services.

(f) Intensive Crisis Stabilization Centers shall have prescribing professionals on duty or on call at all times who can prescribe approved medications, including buprenorphine, consistent with state and federal rules.

(g) Program Director. Crisis Stabilization Centers shall have a Program Director pursuant to this Part for administrative oversight and quality assurance. Program director is a professional staff or certified or credentialed peer with at least two years of full-time clinical work experience in the mental health or substance use disorder treatment field and at least one year of which included supervisory responsibilities.

(h) All staff shall have qualifications appropriate to assigned responsibilities as set forth in the staffing plan and shall practice within the scope of their professional discipline and/or assigned responsibility. All staff shall submit documentation of their training and experience. Such documentation shall be verified and retained on file by the agency.

(i) The staffing plan shall include those clinical and professional staff as defined in this Part in sufficient type, schedules and numbers to meet projected volume and Recipient need.

(j) Criminal history information reviews required pursuant to Sections 19.20, 19.20a and 31.35 of the Mental Hygiene Law, Sections 424-a and 495 of the Social Services Law, and 14 NYCRR 550 and 805, shall be conducted in accordance with such laws and regulations and any guidance issued by the Offices. All prospective employees, contractors and volunteers of Crisis Stabilization Centers licensed pursuant to article 36 of the Mental Hygiene Law who have the potential for, or may be permitted, regular and substantial unsupervised or unrestricted contact with Recipients shall submit to a criminal history information review. All staff with the potential for regular and substantial contact with Recipients in performance of their duties shall submit to clearance by the New York Statewide Central Register of Child Abuse and Maltreatment. Staff who have not been screened by the New York Statewide Central Register of Child Abuse and Maltreatment shall not perform duties requiring contact with Recipients unless there is another staff member present.

(k) Multi-disciplinary team: A Crisis Stabilization Center as approved pursuant to this Part, shall be staffed with a multidisciplinary team capable of meeting the needs of presenting individuals which shall include, but not be limited to: