Section 388-877A-0190. Optional outpatient mental health services requiring program-specific certification—Day support services.

Day support services are optional outpatient mental health services that require program-specific certification by the department's division of behavioral health and recovery. These services provide a range of integrated and varied life skills training. Day support services are designed to assist an individual in the acquisition of skills, retention of current functioning, or improvement in the current level of functioning, appropriate socialization, and adaptive coping skills. Services include training in basic living and social skills, and educational, vocational, pre-vocational, and day activities. Day support services may include therapeutic treatment. An agency providing day support services must ensure:

(1) All day support services are provided by, or under the supervision of, a mental health professional.

(2) There is at least one staff member providing services for every twenty individuals;

(3) Staff is available five hours per day, five days per week to provide support services to individuals; and

(4) The services occur in an environment easily accessible to the individual.

[Statutory Authority: Chapters 70.02, 70.96A, 71.05, 71.24, 71.34, 74.50 RCW, RCW 74.08.090, 43.20A.890, and 42 C.F.R. Part 8. WSR 13-12-053, § 388-877A-0190, filed 5/31/13, effective 7/1/13.]

Chapters 70.02, 70.96A, 71.05, 71.24, 71.34, 74.50 RCW, RCW 74.08.090, 43.20A.890, and 42 C.F.R. Part 8. WSR 13-12-053, § 388-877A-0190, filed 5/31/13, effective 7/1/13.