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§43A-3-302.


§43A-3-302.
   
   As used in the Unified Community Mental Health Services Act:
   
   1. "Catchment area or service area" means a geographic area
   established by the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse
   Services for support of mental health and substance abuse services;
   
   2. "Community mental health services", in conformance with federal
   requirements, means services for the treatment of alcoholism, drug
   addiction or abuse, and mental illness, and the prevention, diagnosis,
   or rehabilitation of such persons;
   
   3. "Board" means the Alcohol, Drug Abuse and Community Mental Health
   Planning and Coordination Board;
   
   4. "Mental health facility" means:
   
   a. a comprehensive community mental health center offering services
   including, but not limited to, the following basic services:
   Inpatient, outpatient, partial hospitalization, emergency care, and
   consultation and education; and offering the following services at the
   option of the center: Prescreening services, rehabilitation services,
   precare and aftercare services, training programs, and research and
   evaluation programs,
   
   b. an outpatient facility offering diagnostic and treatment services,
   
   c. a day care facility offering a treatment program for children or
   adults suffering from mental or emotional problems, or
   
   d. community residential mental health programs and facilities which
   provide supervised residential care, counseling, case management or
   other similar services to children or adults suffering from mental or
   emotional problems;
   
   5. "Domestic violence program" or "sexual assault program" means a
   facility, agency or organization which offers or provides or a person
   who engages in the offering of shelter, residential services or
   support services to:
   
   a. victims or survivors of domestic abuse as defined in Section 60.1
   of Title 22 of the Oklahoma Statutes, any dependent children of said
   victims or survivors and any other member of the family or household
   of such victim or survivor,
   
   b. victims or survivors of sexual assault, and
   
   c. persons who are homeless as a result of domestic or sexual violence
   or both domestic and sexual violence,
   
   and which may provide other services, including, but not limited to,
   counseling, case management, referrals or other similar services to
   victims or survivors of domestic abuse or sexual assault;
   
   6. "Day treatment program" means nonresidential, partial
   hospitalization programs, day treatment programs, and day hospital
   programs as defined by subsection A of Section 1 of this act.
   

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