Provider criteria

1. A clinically managed low-intensity residential care program shall maintain a safe, comfortable, alcohol-free, and drug-free environment. 2. A clinically managed low-intensity residential care program shall provide to clients a full meal service that meets established nutritional guidelines. 3. A clinically managed low-intensity residential care program shall implement written referral procedures and agreements with providers of services to enable clients to receive necessary aftercare, other therapeutic services, vocational rehabilitation and educational instruction such as general educational development preparation and literacy training and attendance at local support groups for clients not having completed high school. 4. A clinically managed low-intensity residential care program shall provide to an adolescent still enrolled in school onsite staff or onsite or offsite contractors for the provision of accredited educational services or short-term educational services linked to home school designed to maintain current learning. 5. A clinically managed low-intensity residential care program shall provide staff twenty-four hours per day. 6. A clinically managed low-intensity residential care program shall offer a minimum of five hours a week of professionally directed treatment in addition to other treatment services a client may receive such as partial hospitalization or intensive outpatient treatment. Professionally directed treatment must include two support or two group sessions a week. 7. A clinically managed low-intensity residential care program shall collaborate with care providers to develop an individual treatment plan for each client with time-specific goals and objectives. 8. A clinically managed low-intensity residential care program shall maintain a record of each client's progress and activities in the program.