Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 44, November 2, 2024
(a)
Aftercare services shall be available to prevent unnecessary and prolonged
institutionalization and to facilitate the return of persons to their homes or
communities. These services shall be designed to enable persons with an
intellectual disability to achieve their maximum potential for self-care,
self-support, self-sufficiency and social competence.
(b) Aftercare services shall include the
following:
(1) Evaluation of persons
currently in residential placement.
(2) Preparation of individual life-management
plans for persons in placement, to include a definition of the special purpose
served by the placement as part of the life-management plan of each
individual.
(3) Establishment of an
individually appropriate and realistic social development goal to be
accomplished by each placement.
(4)
Regular liaison with the facility to ensure that time spent in residence is
limited to the time required to accomplish the established goal, and that
service provided by the facility is consistently more suitable than the person
might receive in the community.
(5)
Prerelease counseling services to resident and family, referral with
follow-through to appropriate community resources for post-release services and
follow-along responsibility for post-release life management.
(6) Provision of short-term inpatient,
emergency, out-patient, partial hospitalization and rehabilitation and training
services, as indicated by individual life-management plans.
(7) Nursing home care for older individuals
primarily in need of medically supervised nursing services.
(8) Supervised sheltered personal care living
arrangements-groups or singly-for those whose primary need is not medical.
(9) Foster home care, individual
and group living.
The provisions of this §6201.14 amended under sections
201(2) and (8) and 202 of the Mental Health and Intellectual Disability Act of
1966 (50 P.S. §§
4201(2) and
(8) and
4202).
