30:4-177.55 Definitions relative to funding for community mental health, developmental disability services

3. As used in this act:

"Children and adolescents with serious emotional disturbances" means individuals under 18 years of age who meet criteria established by the commissioner, which shall include children and adolescents who are in psychiatric crisis, or children and adolescents who have a designated diagnosis of mental illness under the most recent edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders and whose severity and duration of mental illness result in substantial functional disability.

"Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Human Services.

"Community mental health and developmental disability services" means the following services for persons with serious mental illness, or for persons with developmental disabilities, as appropriate;

a. emergency and crisis services provided in programs licensed or approved by the commissioner;

b. case management services;

c. outpatient services which provide an adequate level of treatment and rehabilitation to persons with serious mental illness;

d. residential services, other than inpatient services, provided in programs licensed or approved by the commissioner and in long-term health care facilities licensed by the Department of Health and Senior Services, including, but not limited to, assisted living residences, comprehensive personal care homes and residential health care facilities;

e. psychiatric rehabilitation services, including, but not limited to, supported employment, supported living, psychosocial clubhouse and other partial care modalities;

f. other community support services, including, but not limited to, consumer advocacy, consumer operated self-help activities, drop-in centers, and family education and support services;

g. services which are directed toward the alleviation of a developmental disability or mental illness, or toward the social, personal, physical or economic habilitation or rehabilitation of a person with a developmental disability or mental illness, and provided by an agency or program approved by the commissioner; and

h. other services as approved by the commissioner.

"Department" means the Department of Human Services.

"Developmental disability" means a developmental disability as defined in the "Developmentally Disabled Rights Act," P.L.1977, c.82 (C.30:6D-1 et seq.).

"Facility" means a State psychiatric hospital or developmental center operated by the department.

"Persons with serious mental illness" means individuals who meet criteria established by the commissioner, which shall include persons who are in psychiatric crisis, or persons who have a designated diagnosis of mental illness under the most recent edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders and whose severity and duration of mental illness result in substantial functional disability. Persons with serious mental illness shall include children and adolescents with serious emotional disturbances.

L.1997,c.258,s.3.