N.J. Admin. Code § 3A:58-1.1

Current through Register Vol. 57, No. 1, January 6, 2025

Section 3A:58-1.1 - Purpose, scope, and goals

(a) Children's partial care programs provide seriously emotionally/behaviorally challenged youth with a highly structured intensive day treatment program.

(b) Program goals include:

1. Prevention of psychiatric hospitalization of youth at risk of psychiatric hospitalization;

2. Prevention of re-hospitalization of youth who have been psychiatrically hospitalized;

3. Provision of a transition for psychiatrically hospitalized youth from the hospital back into the community; and

4. Provision of services to at-risk children under the age of five years.

(c) Agencies operating children's partial care programs shall:

1. Respect the rights and dignity of youth and family members and when appropriate preserve the family unit;

2. Foster community living by teaching skills and improving functioning;

3. Help each youth to realize his or her potential for learning;

4. Foster healthy interdependence;

5. Help clients develop and use social support systems;

6. Help clients and their family members or legal guardians learn to manage the client's illness in order to prevent relapse, re-hospitalization, or placement in a restrictive environment;

7. Empower clients and families to actively participate in treatment and programming and to determine personal and program goals;

8. Affirm clients' strengths and abilities; and

9. Encourage and support clients' and families' efforts to help each other.

(d) A provider agency operating a children's partial care program shall comply with the provisions of this chapter and N.J.A.C. 10:190.

(e) No children's partial care program shall operate unless it has secured a license from the Department of Children and Families as a children's partial care program.

N.J. Admin. Code § 3A:58-1.1

Recodified from N.J.A.C. 10:37-12.1 and amended by R.2007 d.37, effective 2/5/2007.
See: 38 N.J.R. 2566(a), 39 N.J.R. 450(b).
Added (d) and (e).
Amended by R.2013 d.135, effective 11/18/2013.
See: 44 N.J.R. 2431(a), 45 N.J.R. 2429(d).
Section was "Purpose, scope and goals". In (a), substituted "emotionally/behaviorally challenged" for "emotionally disturbed", and deleted the last sentence; in (b)2, deleted "and" from the end; in (b)3, substituted "; and" for a period at the end; added (b)4; rewrote the introductory paragraph of (c); in (c)3, substituted "his or her" for "their own"; and in (e), deleted ", or is licensed by the Department of Health and Senior Services as a health care facility" from the end.