Definition

(1) “Alcohol and Drug Residential Treatment Facilities for Children and Youth” means a residential program which offers twenty-four (24) hour treatment to service recipients under eighteen (18) years of age with the primary purpose of restoring service recipients with alcohol and/or drug abuse or dependency disorders to abstinence and levels of positive functioning appropriate to the service recipient. An important goal of these services is to move the service recipient into less intensive levels of care and/or reintegration in to the community. The program must provide or arrange for an education component in compliance with the Rules, Regulations, and Minimum Standards of the Tennessee State Board of Education.