North Carolina Administrative Code
Title 10A - HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Chapter 71 - ADULT AND FAMILY SUPPORT
Subchapter R - SOCIAL SERVICES BLOCK GRANT
Section .0900 - SERVICE DEFINITIONS
Section 71R .0917 - RESIDENTIAL TREATMENT FOR THE EMOTIONALLY DISTURBED

(a) Primary Service. Residential treatment means services provided in an environment effectively structured and designed as a therapeutic milieu to meet individualized needs of emotionally disturbed individuals. Services should initiate and direct recovery from the incidence and debilitating effects of emotional disturbance in such manner that rehabilitation toward adequate social and emotional functioning can be continued by follow-up support and treatment in home and community. Included are room and board for up to six consecutive months for any one placement in residential treatment. Psychiatric counseling and drug therapy specifically related to the treatment of the individual's emotional disturbance may be provided as integral but subordinate to the regimen of residential treatment services.

(b) Components. None.

(c) Resource Items. None.

(d) Target Population. Emotionally disturbed children who are a placement responsibility (by legal custody or voluntary agreement) of county departments of social services and for whom other program resources are not available.