1. If the head of a facility operated by the department determines that placement out of the facility would be appropriate for any patient or resident, the head of the facility shall refer the patient or resident for placement according to the department’s rules. If a patient or resident is accepted and placed under this chapter, then the patient or resident shall be considered as discharged as a patient or resident of the facility and reclassified as a client of the department.

2. Any person, his authorized representative, his parent, if the person is a minor, his guardian, a court of competent jurisdiction or a state or private facility or agency having custody of the person may apply for placement of the person under this chapter.

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Terms Used In Missouri Laws 630.610

  • Client: any person who is placed by the department in a facility or program licensed and funded by the department or who is a recipient of services from a regional center, as defined in section 633. See Missouri Laws 630.005
  • Department: the department of mental health of the state of Missouri. See Missouri Laws 630.005
  • Developmental disability: a disability:

    (a) Which is attributable to:

    a. See Missouri Laws 630.005

  • Drug abuse: the use of any drug without compelling medical reason, which use results in a temporary mental, emotional or physical impairment and causes socially dysfunctional behavior, or in psychological or physiological dependency resulting from continued use, which dependency induces a mental, emotional or physical impairment and causes socially dysfunctional behavior. See Missouri Laws 630.005
  • following: when used by way of reference to any section of the statutes, mean the section next preceding or next following that in which the reference is made, unless some other section is expressly designated in the reference. See Missouri Laws 1.020
  • Habilitation: a process of treatment, training, care or specialized attention that seeks to enhance and maximize a person with an intellectual disability or a developmental disability to cope with the environment and to live as determined by the person as much as possible, as is appropriate for the person considering his or her physical and mental condition and financial means. See Missouri Laws 630.005
  • Head of the facility: the chief administrative officer, or his designee, of any residential facility. See Missouri Laws 630.005
  • Intellectual disability: significantly subaverage general intellectual functioning which:

    (a) Originates before age eighteen. See Missouri Laws 630.005

  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Mental disorder: any organic, mental or emotional impairment which has substantial adverse effects on a person's cognitive, volitional or emotional function and which constitutes a substantial impairment in a person's ability to participate in activities of normal living. See Missouri Laws 630.005
  • Mental illness: a state of impaired mental processes, which impairment results in a distortion of a person's capacity to recognize reality due to hallucinations, delusions, faulty perceptions or alterations of mood, and interferes with an individual's ability to reason, understand or exercise conscious control over his actions. See Missouri Laws 630.005
  • Minor: any person under the age of eighteen years. See Missouri Laws 630.005
  • Patient: an individual under observation, care, treatment or rehabilitation by any hospital or other mental health facility or mental health program pursuant to the provisions of chapter 632. See Missouri Laws 630.005
  • person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, and to partnerships and other unincorporated associations. See Missouri Laws 1.020
  • Rehabilitation: a process of restoration of a person's ability to attain or maintain normal or optimum health or constructive activity through care, treatment, training, counseling or specialized attention. See Missouri Laws 630.005
  • Resident: a person receiving residential services from a facility, other than mental health facility, operated, funded or licensed by the department. See Missouri Laws 630.005
  • State: when applied to any of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories, and the words "United States" includes such district and territories. See Missouri Laws 1.020

3. If the department finds the application to be appropriate after review, it shall provide for or arrange for a comprehensive evaluation, and the preparation of an individualized treatment, habilitation or rehabilitation plan of the person seeking to be placed, whether from a department facility or directly, to determine if he meets the following criteria:

(1) The person is affected by a mental disorder, mental illness, intellectual disability, developmental disability or alcohol or drug abuse; and

(2) The person is in need of special care, treatment, habilitation or rehabilitation services as described in this chapter, including room or board, or both; provided, however, that no person shall be accepted for placement if the sole reason for the application or referral is that residential placement is necessary for a school-aged child, as defined in chapter 162, to receive an appropriate special education.

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