Pennsylvania Code
Title 55 - HUMAN SERVICES
Part VI - Mental Health/Intellectual Disability/Autism Manual
Subpart C - Administration and Fiscal Management
Chapter 4210 - DESCRIPTION OF SERVICES AND SERVICE AREAS
REHABILITATIVE AND TRAINING SERVICES
Section 4210.71 - Description

(a) Rehabilitative and training services are ancillary to mental health and intellectual disability care provided on an inpatient or outpatient basis.

(b) These services consist of vocational evaluation, work adjustment training, job placement and group living experiences to assist an individual handicapped by mental disability, who may or may not have a physical disability, to reach his best level of social and vocational adaptation. According to the capacity of each individual, services may be successful if they result in competitive employment, transitional or indefinite employment in a sheltered workshop or work activity center, ability to maintain a home, or in enabling the client to achieve his maximum possible level or independent living.

(c) These services consist of group programs for teaching or improving self care, personal behavior and social adjustment for persons with a mental disability. Through group training, day care centers may prepare children with a mental disability to attend special classes in the public schools. For other children and for adults these services make continued community living possible by raising the level of social competency and by decreasing the necessity of constant supervision given by their families and others. The services shall include extended work activity programs in sheltered workshops or work activity centers.