LICENSED HOUSING

• REGULATIONS
• CHARTS AND SURVEYS
• ACCESS TO THE PROGRAMS

Licensed Residential Program Descriptions

The following are the basic descriptions of the majority of licensed beds in the state. Hybrids exist.

Treatment Apartment - A program which provides adults an apartment, in the community with staff visits as necessary to provide rehabilitative services designed to improve functioning and develop greater independence – no more than one to three beds per unit.

Congregate Treatment - A single site residence that provides group living for adults, three meals a day, 24 hour supervision/ staff, and rehabilitative activities – 8 to 48 beds

Community Residence Single Room Occupancy (CR-SRO) or Service Enriched Single Room Occupancy - A single site residence that provides group living for adults, three meals a day, 24 hour supervision/staff, activities geared toward maintaining or improving functioning – up to 100 single bedrooms with private bath, or single studio apartments.

Children and Youth Community Residence - A single site residence that provides group living for six to eight children and or adolescents. The program provides a supervised, therapeutic environment which seeks to develop the resident's skills and capacity to live in the community and attend school/ work as appropriate.

Crisis Residence - A single site residence designed to provide 24 hr supervision, generally for up to 30 days, to adults or children/adolescents experiencing acute symptoms or a temporary disruption in community supports. Services are designed to avoid hospitalization, and return the resident to a stable environment.

Family Based Treatment - A residential program for children or adolescents with serious emotional disturbances which allows a child to move into the home of specially trained teaching parents.

Teaching Family Home - A home which provides specially trained teaching parents who provide individualized care for up to four children/adolescents with serious emotional disturbances at a time in a family setting.