Common use of Day Treatment Intensive Services Clause in Contracts

Day Treatment Intensive Services. a. Contractor shall provide Day Treatment Intensive Services to seriously emotionally and behaviorally disturbed San Mateo County resident youth(s) pre- authorized for service by the BHRS Deputy Director of Child and Youth Services or designee. b. The program is multi-disciplinary in its approach and provides a range of treatment services, including, but not limited to: i. Psychological assessment, evaluation, and plan development; ii. Education/special education programming; iii. Occupational, speech/language, and recreation therapies; iv. Individual, group, and family psychotherapy; v. Medication assessment and mediation management; vi. Psychosocial and functional skills development; vii. Crisis intervention; and viii. Outreach social services. c. Day Treatment Intensive Services shall occur in a therapeutic milieu. The purposes of the therapeutic milieu are as follows: i. To provide the foundation for the provision of Day Treatment Intensive Services and differentiate these services from other specialty mental health services; ii. To include a therapeutic program that is structured by well-defined service components with specific activities being performed by identified staff; iii. To create a supportive and nurturing interpersonal environment that teaches, models, and reinforces constructive interaction; iv. To support peer/staff feedback to clients on strategies for symptom reduction, increasing adaptive behaviors, and reducing subjective distress; v. To empower clients through involvement in the overall program (such as the opportunity to lead community meetings and to provide feedback to peers) and the opportunity for risk taking in a supportive environment; and vi. To support behavior management interventions that focus on teaching self-management skills that children, youth, adults and older adults may use to control their own lives, to deal effectively with present and future problems, and to function with minimal or no additional therapeutic intervention.

Day Treatment Intensive Services. a. Contractor shall provide Day Treatment Intensive Services to seriously emotionally and behaviorally disturbed San Mateo County resident youth(s) pre- authorized who are pre-approved for service by the BHRS Deputy Director of Child and Youth Services or designee. b. The Contractor’s full-day Day Treatment Intensive Services hours of operation are five (5) days per week, fifty-two weeks per year. The half-day Day Treatment Intensive Services hours of operation are 12:30 PM to 4:50 PM, five (5) days per week, fifty-two weeks per year. c. The program is multi-disciplinary in its approach and provides a range of treatment services, including, but not limited to: i. Psychological assessment, evaluation, and plan development; ii. Education/special education programming; iii. Occupational, speech/language, and recreation therapies; iv. Individual, group, and family psychotherapy; v. Medication assessment and mediation management; vi. Psychosocial and functional skills development; vii. Crisis intervention; and viii. Outreach social services. c. d. Day Treatment Intensive Services shall occur in a therapeutic milieu. The purposes of the therapeutic milieu are as follows: i. To provide the foundation for the provision of Day Treatment Intensive Services and differentiate these services from other specialty mental health services; ii. To include a therapeutic program that is structured by well-defined service components with specific activities being performed by identified staff; iii. To create a supportive and nurturing interpersonal environment that teaches, models, and reinforces constructive interaction; iv. To support peer/staff feedback to clients on strategies for symptom reduction, increasing adaptive behaviors, and reducing subjective distress; v. To empower clients through involvement in the overall program (such as the opportunity to lead community meetings and to provide feedback to peers) and the opportunity for risk taking in a supportive environment; and vi. To support behavior management interventions that focus on teaching self-management skills that children, youth, adults and older adults may use to control their own lives, to deal effectively with present and future problems, and to function with minimal or no additional therapeutic intervention. e. Therapeutic Milieu Service Components The following services must be made available during the course of the therapeutic milieu for an average of at least three hours per day for a full-day Day Treatment Intensive Services program, and an average of at least two hours per day for a half-day program. One program staff member must be present and available to the group during the milieu for all scheduled hours of therapeutic milieu.

Day Treatment Intensive Services. a. Contractor shall provide Day Treatment Intensive Services to seriously emotionally and behaviorally disturbed San Mateo County resident youth(s) pre- authorized for service by the BHRS Deputy Director of Child and Youth Services or designee. b. The Contractor’s full-day Day Treatment Intensive Services hours of operation are 10:00 A.M. to 3:30 P.M., Monday through Friday, five (5) days per week, fifty-two weeks per year. c. A half-day Day Treatment Intensive Services program must provide services a minimum of three (3) hours per program day. d. The program is multi-disciplinary in its approach and provides a range of treatment services, including, but not limited to: i. Psychological assessment, evaluation, and plan development; ii. Education/special education programming; iii. Occupational, speech/language, and recreation therapies; iv. Individual, group, and family psychotherapy; v. Medication assessment and mediation management; vi. Psychosocial and functional skills development; vii. Crisis intervention; and viii. Outreach social services. c. e. Day Treatment Intensive Services shall occur in a therapeutic milieu. The purposes of the therapeutic milieu are as follows: i. To provide the foundation for the provision of Day Treatment Intensive Services and differentiate these services from other specialty mental health services; ii. To include a therapeutic program that is structured by well-defined service components with specific activities being performed by identified staff; iii. To create a supportive and nurturing interpersonal environment that teaches, models, and reinforces constructive interaction; iv. To support peer/staff feedback to clients on strategies for symptom reduction, increasing adaptive behaviors, and reducing subjective distress; v. To empower clients through involvement in the overall program (such as the opportunity to lead community meetings and to provide feedback to peers) and the opportunity for risk taking in a supportive environment; and vi. To support behavior management interventions that focus on teaching self-management skills that children, youth, adults and older adults may use to control their own lives, to deal effectively with present and future problems, and to function with minimal or no additional therapeutic intervention. f. Therapeutic Milieu Service Components The following services must be made available during the course of the therapeutic milieu for an average of at least three hours per day for a full-day Day Treatment Intensive Services program, and an average of at least two hours per day for a half-day program. One program staff member must be present and available to the group during the milieu for all scheduled hours of therapeutic milieu.