As used in the Sheltered Workshop Act:

1. “Community services worker” means any person who:

a.contracts with the Oklahoma Health Care Authority to provide specialized foster care, habilitation training specialist services, or homemaker services to persons with developmental disabilities,

b.is not a licensed health professional, and

c.is employed by or under contract with a community services provider to provide for compensation or as a volunteer the following:

(1)health-related services,

(2)training, or

(3)supportive assistance;

2. “Contract” means the binding legal agreement to provide sheltered workshop services, entered into between the provider and the Developmental Disabilities Services Division of the Department of Human Services or the Oklahoma Health Care Authority;

3. “DDSD” means the Developmental Disabilities Services Division of the Department of Human Services;

4. “Department” means the Department of Human Services;

5. “Developmental disability” means a severely chronic disability of a person which:

a.is attributable to a physical or mental impairment or a combination of physical or mental impairments,

b.is manifested before the person attains the age of twenty-two (22) years,

c.is likely to continue indefinitely,

d.results in substantial functional limitations in three or more of the following areas of major life activity:

(1)self-care,

(2)receptive and expressive language,

(3)learning,

(4)mobility,

(5)self-direction,

(6)capacity for independent living, or

(7)economic self-sufficiency, and

e. reflects the need of the person for a combination and sequence of special interdisciplinary or generic care, treatment or other services which are of lifelong or extended duration and are individually planned and coordinated;

6. “Director” means the Director of Human Services;

7. “Licensee” means a person, corporation, partnership, limited liability company, or association operating a sheltered workshop which is licensed pursuant to the provisions of the Sheltered Workshop Act;

8. “Provider” means a person, corporation, partnership, limited liability company, association, or other entity that contracts with the Developmental Disabilities Services Division of the Department of Human Services or the Oklahoma Health Care Authority to operate a sheltered workshop for persons with developmental disabilities;

9. “Service recipient” means a person participating in the sheltered workshop; and

10. “Sheltered workshop” means a facility, or any portion thereof, operated by a nonprofit organization, corporation, partnership, limited liability company or association whose purpose is to provide meaningful work or training activities to individuals with developmental disabilities and holds a current certificate under Section 14c of the Fair Labor Standards Act by the Wage and Hour Division, U.S. Department of Labor.

Added by Laws 2011, c. 65, § 2, eff. Nov. 1, 2011.