Conn. Agencies Regs. § 17a-212a-1

Current through December 27, 2024

Section 17a-212a-1 - Definitions

For the purposes of Sections 17a-212a-1 through 17a-212a-4 of the Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies, the following definitions shall apply:

(1) "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of the Department of Mental Retardation.

(2) "Department" means the Department of Mental Retardation.

(3) "Deputy commissioner" means the deputy commissioner of the Department of Mental Retardation.

(4) "Forensic coordinator" means the person responsible for the coordination of the forensic process, development of policies and procedures, and serving as liaison to the forensic review committees.

(5) "Forensic process" means all activities associated with the department's statutory role in the criminal justice system and the evaluation and planning associated with persons with mental retardation who may pose a serious threat in the absence of adequate supervision and services.

(6) "Forensic review committee" means a group of persons responsible for implementing and monitoring the forensic process, placements and programs.

(7) "Interdisciplinary team" means a group of persons which includes the person being served, his or her family or guardian, those persons who work most directly with the person in each of the professions, disciplines, or service areas that provide service to the person, including direct care staff; and any other persons whose participation is relevant to identifying the needs of the person, devising ways to meet them, writing an overall plan of services and reviewing the plan's effectiveness.

(8) "Legal responsibility review" means the review process conducted by a forensic review committee by which the department's legal obligations to the client are evaluated. Such reviews include, but are not limited to, evaluations concerning admissions or involuntary placements, and any other statutory, regulatory or judicial requirements or factors relevant to a person's legal relationship with the department.

(9) "Non-community based residential facility" means a specially designed residential facility operated, licensed or funded by the department which is located on a state-owned campus setting or which is otherwise segregated from a neighborhood of private single-family and multi-family homes, apartment complexes and condominiums.

(10) "Regional or training school director" means that person appointed by the commissioner to be directly responsible for the management of one of the department's three regions or of the training school.

(11) "Regional placement committee" means a group of persons who evaluate the availability and appropriateness of programs and placements for the person being served.

(12) "Risk review" means a process which evaluates the degree of serious threat associated with acts or behaviors.

(13) "Risk review screening instrument" means the format developed by the department to analyze factual information relating to clinical, legal, behavioral and psychiatric aspects of the person under review.

(14) "Serious Threat" means the expression, indication or communication by a person of a present intention to cause serious harm to others, to oneself, or serious damage to property.

Conn. Agencies Regs. § 17a-212a-1

Adopted effective September 29, 2003