Pennsylvania Code
Title 37 - LAW
Part III - Agencies and Offices
Subpart B - DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS
Chapter 97 - STATE INTERMEDIATE PUNISHMENT DRUG OFFENDER TREATMENT PROGRAM
Section 97.111 - Outpatient addiction treatment facility

(a) A participant who successfully completes the community-based therapeutic community and any additional required programming will be assigned to an outpatient addiction treatment facility. Assignment to an outpatient addiction treatment facility will not necessarily be made immediately upon successful completion of the community-based therapeutic community and any additional required programming, but will be made in sufficient time to permit the participant to complete the remaining portions of the participant's DOTP. A participant may reside in a community corrections center, group home or an approved transitional residence while assigned to an outpatient addiction treatment facility program, but will not be permitted to begin residing in a group home or an approved transitional residence until the Department has completed its investigation, review and approval of the residence.

(b) A participant will be required to continue his individual DOTP while assigned to an outpatient addiction treatment facility program and may be required to participate in additional programming intended to address other treatment needs identified during his incarceration.

(c) The treatment staff of the outpatient addiction treatment facility shall provide the Department with an informational report concerning the participant's progress toward completion of the outpatient addiction treatment portion of his DOTP at the conclusion of the participant's first 6 months of treatment with the outpatient addiction treatment facility. The report must include a recommendation whether the participant has progressed sufficiently to begin his supervised reintegration into the community, if the participant should continue treatment with the outpatient addiction treatment facility, be returned to a community-based treatment community, institutional therapeutic community or to a State correctional institution or be expelled from the DOTP. The report must include specific reasons supporting the recommendation and a suggested plan for addressing any treatment deficiencies noted. The report shall be transmitted to the Chief of the Department's Central Office Treatment Division or a designee.

(d) The Department will not be limited to approving or disapproving the recommendation of the outpatient addiction treatment facility treatment staff and may select alternatives not recommended by the treatment staff.

(e) The Department may require the treatment staff of the outpatient addiction treatment program to submit reports in addition to the report required by subsection (c).