(a) Purpose.

• (1) The Community-Based Residential Care (CBRC) program serves children in Oklahoma Department of Human Services (OKDHS) custody whose treatment needs cannot be met in a family setting but whose treatment needs do not require inpatient psychiatric care.
• (2) OKDHS contracts for different levels of care of CBRC placements that vary according to the level of restriction and intensity of treatment in order to meet the different treatment needs of children.  

(b) Legal base.

• (1) Section 7004-1.1 of Title 10 of the Oklahoma Statutes (10 O.S. § 7004-1.1) requires OKDHS review and assess each child in OKDHS custody to determine the type of placement consistent with the child's treatment needs in the nearest geographical proximity to the child's home.
• (2) 10 O.S. § 7004-2.1 requires OKDHS take all necessary steps, subject to the availability of funds, to develop and implement a diversity of community-based residential care, as needed, to provide for adequate and appropriate community based treatment or rehabilitation of each child in a:
  • (A) foster home;
  • (B) group home;
  • (C) community residential center; or
  • (D) non-secure facility consistent with the child's individualized treatment needs and, when possible, in or near the child's home community.

(c) Definitions.  The following words and terms, when used in this Subchapter, shall have the following meaning, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:

• (1) "Absent without leave (AWOL)" means the child in OKDHS custody is not present in a placement, such as foster care, therapeutic foster care, group home, or specialized community home, and does not have permission to be absent.
• (2) "Group home" means a residential facility housing no more than 12 children who are supervised by adults other than their parents or relatives.
• (3) "Intensive treatment services (ITS)" means a contracted eight-bed program that provides 72-hour crisis intervention services for children in OKDHS custody to prevent inpatient admission.