105 CMR 164.423
Program Components
(A) Residential rehabilitation programs for adults, regardless of program model, shall:
(1) provide daily clinical services to improve residents' ability to structure and organize the
tasks of daily living and recovery;
(2) advocacy and ombudsman services to support residents in obtaining needed resources
and services and actively promote residents' interests; and
(3) directly connect the resident to substance use disorder treatment or community support
services upon discharge.
(B) Transitional Support Services. Residential rehabilitation programs based on a Transitional
Support model shall provide:
(1) at a minimum, four hours of nursing services available each day;
(2) case management services;
(3) a dedicated staff member to provide transportation services available at least 12 hours
per day, seven days per week; and
(4) health monitoring, education and crisis services.
(C)
Social Model Recovery Homes. Residential rehabilitation programs based on a Social
Model shall provide:
individual treatment plans developed by residents with assistance within the first 30
calendar days of residence;
planned program activities to stabilize and maintain the stability of the resident's
substance dependence symptoms and to help the resident develop and apply recovery skills;
and
(3) case management and support to promote successful involvement in regular, productive
daily activity, such as work or school, and, as indicated, successful reintegration into family
and community living.
(D) Recovery Homes. Residential rehabilitation services based on a Recovery Home model
shall provide:
(1) planned daily clinical program activities to stabilize the resident's substance dependence
symptoms and to help the resident develop and apply recovery skills;
(2) counseling and clinical monitoring by qualified staff to promote successful involvement
in regular, productive daily activity, such as work or school, and, as indicated, successful
reintegration into community living;
(3) a range of cognitive and motivational therapies on a group and individual basis; and
(4) a daily schedule of services designed to develop and apply recovery skills.
(E)
Therapeutic Communities. Residential rehabilitation services based on a Therapeutic
Community model shall provide:
(1) daily clinical services to promote the residents' ability to develop and practice pro-social
behaviors;
planned daily clinical program activities to stabilize and maintain stabilization of the
resident's substance dependence symptoms and to help the resident develop and apply
recovery skills;
(3) counseling and clinical monitoring by qualified staff to promote successful involvement
in regular, productive daily activity, such as work or school, and, as indicated, successful
reintegration into family and community living;
(4) a range of cognitive and motivational therapies on a group and individual basis;
(5) motivational enhancement and engagement strategies appropriate to the resident's stage
of readiness to change; and
(6) planned community reinforcement designed to foster pro-social values and group living
skills.
(F) Co-occurring Enhanced Residential Services. Residential rehabilitation services based on
a Co-occurring Enhanced Services model shall be delivered by appropriately credential medical
staff who are available to assess and treat co-occurring disorders and to monitor the patients'
administration of medication in accordance with a physician's prescription, as well as provide:
(1) staffing patterns that include appropriately credentialed mental health professionals, who
are able to assess and treat co-occurring disorders with the capacity to involve addiction
trained psychiatrists or in coordination with community physicians for review of treatment
as needed;
planned daily clinical program activities constituting at least five hours a week of
professionally directed treatment designed to stabilize and maintain the resident's substance
dependence symptoms and to help the resident develop and apply recovery skills;
(3) counseling and clinical monitoring by qualified staff to promote successful involvement
in regular, productive daily activity, successful reintegration into community living;
(4) a range of cognitive and motivational therapies on a group and individual basis, where
the goals of such therapies pertain to both the substance use disorder and any mental health
disorder;
a daily schedule of self-help, health education, relapse and overdose prevention and
recovery maintenance education as well individual and group services designed to develop
and apply recovery skills;
trauma-informed care, with an emphasis on individual choice and decision making,
including trauma screening in all assessments and access to trauma specific services;
(7) specific medication education and management services; and
(8) Recovery Support services, referral, and engagement.
(G)
Programs may provide services through telemedicine where appropriate and at the
discretion of the program director, based on federal guidance.