7 AAC 50.830 - Admission to secure care
(a) A facility that
is licensed as both a semi-secure and secure residential psychiatric treatment
center under
7
AAC 50.805 may place a child in the secure unit or
secure program of the facility if the facility complies with (b) of this
section and
(1) after the entry of a court
order under
AS
47.10.087 or
AS
47.12.255, the department applies to the
facility for the child's admission to the secure unit or program for a
specified period of time up to 90 days;
(2) the court has ordered that a child be
placed in a secure residential psychiatric treatment center for a specified
period of time, up to 90 days,
(A) by the
person taking custody of the child, if the court releases the child from the
department's custody under
AS
47.10.080(c)(2);
or
(B) as a condition of probation,
if the court releases the child from the department's custody under
AS
47.12.120(b)(2);
or
(3) the child's
parent, Indian custodian, or guardian has requested voluntary admission of the
child to the secure unit or program of the facility for a specified period of
time up to 60 days, and the facility documents that
(A) the facility has performed the
pre-admission assessment and evaluation required by
7
AAC 50.825(b);
(B) the child and the child's situation meets
the requirements of
7
AAC 50.825(d) (1); and
(C) in the written opinion of the medical
director and the clinical director of the facility, and any mental health
professional most recently involved in treatment or evaluation of the child
within a period of time no more than three months before the child's
application for admission to residential psychiatric treatment
(i) the child is gravely disabled or is
suffering from mental illness and, as a result, is likely to cause serious harm
to the child or to another person;
(ii) there is no reasonably available,
appropriate, and less restrictive alternative for the child's treatment or that
less restrictive alternatives have been tried and have failed; and
(iii) there is reason to believe that the
child's mental condition could be improved by the course of treatment or would
deteriorate if untreated.
(b) To place a child in its secure unit or
program under (a) of this section, a residential psychiatric treatment center
must find through the assessment required by
7
AAC 50.825(b) and by evaluation of
all other current professional assessments of and all treatment data available
on the child, that a child for whom a court order of authorization or placement
in secure care has been entered under (a)(1) or (a)(2) of this section, or a
child for whom an application for voluntary admission to secure care has been
made under (a)(3) of this section, can be appropriately treated in the
facility's secure unit or program.
Notes
Authority:AS 44.29.020
AS 47.10.080
AS 47.10.087
AS 47.12.120
AS 47.35.010
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