Provider criteria

1. A program shall maintain a safe, comfortable, alcohol-free, and drug-free environment. 2. A program shall provide to clients or help clients gain access to full meal service that meets established nutritional guidelines. 3. A program shall implement written referral procedures and agreements with providers of services to enable clients to receive necessary aftercare, other therapeutic services, vocational rehabilitation, educational instruction, literacy training, and attendance at local support groups. 4. A program shall provide staff twenty-four hours per day. 5. A program shall offer a minimum of five hours a week of professionally directed treatment in addition to other treatment services offered to clients such as partial hospitalization or intensive outpatient treatment. Professionally directed treatment must include two support or group sessions a week for clients. 6. A program shall collaborate with care providers to develop an individual treatment plan for each client with time-specific goals and objectives. 7. A program shall maintain a record of the client's progress and activities in the program.