Utah Admin. Code R523-2-3 - Priorities for Treatment Services
(1)
The Division shall regularly seek, and receive input from the Utah Behavioral
Health Planning and Advisory Council on priorities for services.
(2) Programs providing substance use and
mental health services with federal, state, and local matching funds shall
provide:
(a) services based on immediacy of
need, and severity of the mental illness, and priority may also be given to
under-served age groups as appropriately demonstrated through needs
studies;
(b) effective and
responsive crisis intervention, suicide prevention, assessment, direct care,
and referral program available to all citizens;
(c) the least restrictive and most
appropriate treatment and settings for:
(i)
children, youth, and adults with severe mental illness;
(ii) children, youth, and adults with acute
mental illness; and
(iii) children,
youth and adults who are receiving services from other divisions within the
Department of Human Services;
(d) services to children with emotional
disabilities, youth and aged citizens who are neither acutely nor severely
mentally ill, but whose adjustment is critical for their future as well as for
society in general;
(e) services to
emotionally disabled adults who are neither acutely nor severely mentally ill,
but whose adjustment is critical to their personal quality of life as well as
for society in general; and
(f)
consultation, education and preventive mental health services targeted at high
risk groups in particular.
(2) Programs providing substance use disorder
treatment services with federal, state, and local matching funds shall provide
priority admission to the following populations in the following order of
priority:
(a) pregnant females who use drugs
by injection;
(b) pregnant females
who use substances;
(c) other
persons who use drugs by injection;
(d) substance using females with dependent
children and their families, including women who are attempting to regain
custody of their children; and
(e)
any other client with a substance use disorder, regardless of gender or route
of use.
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