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37.90.403    HOME AND COMMUNITY-BASED SERVICES FOR ADULTS WITH SEVERE DISABLING MENTAL ILLNESS: DEFINITIONS

(1) "Adult residential care" means a residential habilitation option for persons residing in an adult foster home, group home, or an assisted living facility.

(2) "Case management" means a service that provides the planning for, arranging for, implementation of, and monitoring of the delivery of services available to an person through the program.

(3) "Community transitions services" means nonrecurring set-up expenses for persons who are transitioning from an institutional or other provider-operated living arrangement to a living arrangement in a private residence where the person is directly responsible for his or her own living expenses.

(4) "Habilitation" means intervention services designed to assist a person to acquire, retain, and improve the self-help, socialization, and adaptive skills necessary to reside successfully at home and in the community.

(5) "Health and wellness" means services that assist persons in acquiring, retaining, and improving self-help, socialization, and adaptive skills to reside successfully in the community.

(6) "Homemaker chore" means services provided for persons who are unable to manage their own homes, or when the person normally responsible for homemaking is absent.

(7) "Illness management and recovery (IMR)" means an evidence-based program to provide services consisting of personalized strategies for managing mental illness and achieving personal goals.

(8) "Nonmedical transportation" means transportation through common carrier or private vehicle for access to social or other nonmedical activities.

(9) "Pain and symptom management" means a service of traditional and nontraditional methods of pain management.

(10) "Personal assistant services (PAS)" is defined at 53-6-145, MCA and includes attendant PAS and socialization/supervision PAS.

(11) "Plan of care" means a written plan of supports and interventions to guide the provision of services based on an assessment of the status and needs of a consumer.

(12) "Respite care" means the provision of supportive care to a consumer to relieve those unpaid persons normally caring for the consumer.

(13) "Serious occurrence" means a significant event which affects the health, welfare, and safety of a person served in home and community-based services. The department has established a system of reporting and monitoring serious incidents that involve persons served by the program in order to identify, manage, and mitigate overall risk to the person.

(14) "Severe disabling mental illness" is defined in ARM 37.86.3503.

(15) "Specially trained attendant care" means an option under personal assistance that is the provision of supportive services to a person residing in their own residence.

(16) "Substance use related disorder services" means provision of counseling to a person with a substance use related disorder by a licensed addiction counselor or appropriate licensed professional.

(17) "Supported living" means the provision of comprehensive supportive services to a person residing in an individual residence or in a group living situation.

(18) "Wellness, recovery and action plan (WRAP)" means an individualized plan developed by a person to manage their mental illness. This is a tool to guide persons through the process of identifying and understanding their personal wellness resources.

History: 53-6-402, MCA; IMP, 53-6-402, MCA; NEW, 2012 MAR p. 1265, Eff. 7/1/12.

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