30:11B-4.2 - Program standards
30:11B-4.2 Program standards.
10. a. Within six months of the effective date of this act, the Director of the Division of Mental Health Services in the Department of Human Services or the Division of Child Behavioral Health Services in the Department of Children and Families, as applicable shall develop program standards which include criteria for educational and professional experience of employees of a community residence for the mentally ill and staffing ratios appropriate to the needs of the residents of the community residences for the mentally ill.
b.Within six months after the effective date of P.L.1993, c.329, the Commissioner of Human Services or the Commissioner of Children and Families, as applicable, shall develop program standards which include criteria for educational and professional experience of employees of a community residence for persons with head injuries and staffing ratios appropriate to the needs of the residents of these community residences.
L.1987, c.112, s.10; amended 1993, c.329, s.4; 1995, c.4, s.10; 2006, c.47, s.179.