California Health and Safety Code

§ 1562.03

HSC § 1562.03 Effective Jan 1, 2018Div. 2 · Ch. 3 · Art. 6

Statute text

(a)The department shall establish regulations for short-term residential therapeutic programs that are operated as children’s crisis residential programs. At a minimum, the regulations shall include all of the following:

(1)Therapeutic programming shall be provided seven days a week, including weekends and holidays, with sufficient mental health professional and paraprofessional staff, as required by the facility’s children’s crisis residential mental health program approval in accordance with the standards and procedures established pursuant to Section 11462.011 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, to maintain an appropriate treatment setting and services, based on individual children’s needs.

(2)The program shall be staffed with sufficient personnel to accept children 24 hours per day, seven days a week and to admit children, at a minimum, from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m., seven days a week, 365 days per year. The program shall be sufficiently staffed to discharge children, as appropriate, seven days a week, 365 days per year.

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Legislative history

Added by Stats. 2017, Ch. 704, Sec. 4. (AB 501) Effective January 1, 2018.