(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 1-7-103 of Title 10A of the Oklahoma Statutes (10A O.S. § 1-7-103) 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 geographic proximity as possible to the child's home.
• (2) 10A O.S. § 1-9-110 requires OKDHS, to the extent of funds available, directly, or by grant or contract, to implement a diversity of community-based residential care for children who are alleged or adjudicated deprived.  If a child is placed with a non-custodial parent, the non-custodial parent's home is construed to be the child's home community.  Community-based care is care in a:
  • (A) foster family home;
  • (B) group home;
  • (C) community residential center; or
  • (D) similar non-secure facility consistent with the individualized treatment needs of the child and provided, whenever practical, 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:

•      "Behavioral health" means mental health, substance abuse, or co-occurring mental health and substance abuse diagnoses, and the continuum of mental health, substance abuse, or co-occurring mental health and substance abuse treatment.
•       "Group home" means a residential facility licensed by OKDHS to provide full-time care and community-based services for more than five but fewer than 13 children.
•       "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.
•       "Mental health" means behavioral health, substance abuse, or co-occurring mental health and substance abuse diagnoses, and the continuum of mental health, substance abuse, or co-occurring mental health and substance abuse treatment.
•        "Runaway" 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.