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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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