1720 General Information Related to Other Programs

 

1721 Addiction And Prevention Services - The Addiction And Prevention Services (AAPS) of the Division of Health Care Policy provides substances abuse treatment to low income clients statewide through a network of publicly funded treatment providers. Clients access these services through the five Regional Alcohol and Drug Assessment Centers (RADAC). (See the Web links.) The centers provide a central point of entry to substance abuse treatment services, determine financial eligibility for these services, provide an assessment for alcohol and drug abuse, and refer individuals to an appropriate substance abuse treatment program.
 

To receive services, the person's income must be at or below 100% of the federal poverty level. For those between 100% and 200% of the federal poverty level, services are provided as treatment services are available and may be subject to a sliding scale fee.
 

The following continuum of services are available:
 

  1. Residential services which include:
     
    1. Social Detoxification Treatment Programs which provide short term (2-3 days) 24 hour non-hospital treatment to persons under the influence of alcohol and/or drugs.
       
    2. Intermediate Treatment Programs which provide a 24 hour therapeutic setting for diagnostic and primary treatment services to live-in clients with a past or present alcohol and/or drug abuse history.
       
    3. Reintegration Treatment Programs which provide 24 hour supported residential living to recovering alcoholics and/or drug dependent persons.
       
  2. Outpatient services which include:
     
    1. Outpatient Day Treatment Programs which provide basic alcohol and drug abuse services on less than a 24 hour basis.
       
    2. Outpatient Counseling Programs which provide non-residential alcohol and/or drug abuse treatment. 

 

Programs may also provide child care for clients in residential treatment as well as case management or other supportive services as authorized on a case by case basis.
 

When a member of a TANF assistance plan enters residential treatment, it will be necessary to determine whether the absence is of a temporary nature or if the person is no longer considered to be living with other family members. The determining factor will be the person's living arrangement if it were not for the person's admission in a treatment center.

 

In those instances in which the person is "temporarily" absent from the home, the needs of such person shall be included in the TANF assistance plan. In one parent TANF cases it may be necessary to plan with the client to assure adequate care of the children. If the children are living with another caretaker (such as grandmother), it may be advisable to make a payee change.

TANF clients who receive outpatient treatment do not reside in the treatment center and thus continue to be subject to normal assistance planning and budgeting rules.