Wis. Admin. Code Department of Health Services DHS 61.30 - Introduction

(1) PURPOSE OF RULES. The following rules establish service standards for community developmental disabilities programs whether directly operated by counties or contracted from private providers. These service standards shall apply to each of the 16 services mandated by ch. 51, Stats., and contain the minimal requirements for each service.

(a) For administrative purposes it is necessary to mesh the 16 services with the program elements used for reporting and budgeting for state grant-in-aid. In programming for individuals with developmental disabilities, the program elements of outpatient, day services, sheltered employment, transitional or community living, extended care and intervention are frequently referred to in relationship to the 16 required developmental disability services.

(2) DEFINITIONS. The following words and phrases have the designated meanings:

(a) "Board" means a community services governing and policy making board of directors as established under s. 51.42, 51.437 or 46.23, Stats.

(b) "Day care program" means comprehensive coordinated sets of services to the individual with a developmental disability in order to promote maturation and social development and skills in the areas of daily and community living and to provide an opportunity for the productive, constructive use of time. Day services programs are offered on a continuous basis for a routinely scheduled portion of a 24 hour day, in a non-residential setting.

1. Day services programs shall include day care and may include the additional developmental services of counseling, education, recreation, training, treatment, personal care, transportation and evaluation.

2. When any of these services are offered as part of an out-patient program, the appropriate standard shall apply.

(c) "Department" unless qualified, means the department of health services.

(d) "Director" means the program director appointed by the board or his or her designee.

(e) "Extended care program" means the provision of food and lodging and medical or nursing care on a continuous 24 hour a day basis for individuals with developmental disabilities who are unable to live in a less restrictive setting. Extended care programs are available in Wisconsin centers for the developmentally disabled.

1. Extended care programs shall include domiciliary care and any of the additional developmental disabilities services as needed by the person.

2. The appropriate standard shall apply.

(f) "Intervention program" means programs designed to identify individuals with developmental disabilities in need of services and to assist them in obtaining the appropriate service.

1. Intervention programs may include information and referral, follow along, counseling, recreation and transportation.

(g) "Outpatient program" means intermittent non-residential services in order to halt, ameliorate, or remove a developmental disability or a condition which aggravates a developmental disability in order to promote more effective functioning. Outpatient services may occur on a single contact basis or on a schedule of routine short visits over an extended period of time.

1. Outpatient programs may include the developmental disabilities services of diagnosis, evaluation, counseling, education, recreation, training, treatment, personal care and transportation.

2. When any of these services are offered as part of an out-patient program, the appropriate standard shall apply.

(h) "Rule" means a standard statement of policy or general order, including any amendment or repeal of general application and having the effect of law.

(i) "Sheltered employment program", means non-competitive remunerative employment and other necessary support services for individuals who are presently unemployable in the competitive labor market.

1. Sheltered employment programs shall include sheltered employment services or work activity services and may include the additional developmental disabilities services of counseling, education, recreation, training, personal care, transportation and evaluation.

2. When any of these services are offered as part of a sheltered employment program, the appropriate standard shall apply.

(j) "Transitional or community living program", means non-medical, non-institutional, partially independent living situations for individuals with developmental disabilities which may provide food, lodging and appropriate support services to facilitate social development and independence and skills in areas of daily and community living.

1. Transitional and community living programs shall include special living arrangements and may include the additional developmental disabilities services of counseling, education, recreation, training, personal care, transportation and evaluation.

2. When any of these services are offered as part of a transitional or community living program, the appropriate standard shall apply.

(3) FAMILY INVOLVEMENT IN SERVICE PROVISION. The service providers shall keep the family closely informed of service plans and services provided to the person with a developmental disability. For the purposes of these 16 service standards the phrase ". . . the person with a developmental disability and the family . . ." means that the family will receive information, counseling or assistance if appropriate and as follows:

(a) The parents or legal guardian shall be included in all matters related to a person who has not attained majority.

(b) The legal guardian shall be included in all matters related to his or her ward in which the court had adjudicated the ward incompetent and the guardian legally responsible.

(c) The family or advocate of an adult with a developmental disability shall be involved at the request of the individual.

Notes

Wis. Admin. Code Department of Health Services DHS 61.30

Cr. Register, January, 1980, No. 289, eff. 2-1-80; correction in (2) (c) made under s. 13.92(4) (b) 6, Stats., Register November 2008 No. 635.