§ 35-1-613 — Definitions

Wyoming § 35-1-613

• Jurisdiction: Wyoming
• Title 35: Public Health and Safety
• Ch. 1: ADMINISTRATION
• Art. 6: COMMUNITY HUMAN SERVICES

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(a) As used in this act:
(i) "Community board" means a community mental health
board, a substance use disorder board, a developmental
disabilities board, or a family violence and sexual assault
board, or a board offering a combination of human services
programs, created under this act. For the purposes of this act
every community board is also a public agency;
(ii) "Developmental disabilities" means a disability
attributable to intellectual disability, cerebral palsy,
epilepsy, autism or any other neurological condition requiring
services similar to those required by persons with intellectual
disabilities, that has continued or can be expected to continue
indefinitely and constitutes a substantial impairment to the
individual's ability to function in society;
(iii) "Department" means the department of health;
(iv) "Human services program" means community
facilities, services and programs which exclusively or in part,
are used or operated to prevent or treat mental illness,
substance use disorders or developmental disabilities, to
provide shelter and crisis services for victims of family
violence or sexual assault or to provide other community based
services which serve a public purpose;
(v) "Mental illness" means a condition which is
manifested by a disorder or disturbance in behavior, feeling,
thinking or judgment to such an extent that care and treatment
are required, but does not include addiction to drugs or
alcohol, drug or alcohol intoxication or developmental
disabilities;
(vi) "Public agency" means an organization operated
by a unit of local government or a combination of governments or
agencies formed under the Wyoming Joint Powers Act;
(vii) "Substance" means alcoholic beverages and other
drugs;
(viii) "Substance use disorder" means the use,
without compelling medical reason, of any substance which
results in psychological or physiological dependency as a
function of continued use in such a manner as to induce mental,
emotional or physical impairment or to cause socially
dysfunctional behavior;
(ix) "Client" means any individual receiving services
from a human service program authorized under this act;
(x) "Crisis services for victims of family violence
and sexual assault" means emergency intervention, information,
referral services and medical, legal and social services
advocacy;
(xi) "Sexual assault" means any act made criminal
under W.S. 6-2-302 through 6-2-304 and 6-4-402;
(xii) "Family violence" means domestic abuse as
defined by W.S. 35-21-102(a)(iii);
(xiii) "Shelter" means a place of temporary refuge,
offered on a twenty-four (24) hour, seven (7) day per week basis
to victims of domestic violence and their children;
(xiv) "Adults with acute mental illness" means
persons who are subject to an emergency detention under W.S. 25-
10-109, an involuntary hospitalization order under W.S. 25-10-
110 or a directed outpatient commitment order under W.S. 25-10-
110.1, or who were released from an emergency detention or were
discharged from an involuntary hospitalization or directed
outpatient commitment order within the last six (6) months;
(xv) "Adults with severe mental illness" means
persons who, based on diagnosis and history, have a substantial
probability of being unable to meet their needs for food,
shelter and medical care if they do not receive regular mental
health treatment or case management;
(xvi) "Behavioral health center" means:
(A) A nationally accredited organization that is
licensed to conduct business in the state of Wyoming and
provides a comprehensive range of services for the treatment and
management of mental illness and substance use disorders for
priority populations; or
(B) For the purpose of federal reimbursement, a
tribal federally qualified health center or a behavioral health
service provider certified by the Indian health service of the
United States department of health and human services.
(xvii) "Families at high risk" means:
(A) Children who have been discharged from an
acute psychiatric facility or a psychiatric residential
treatment facility within the previous six (6) months, and their
immediate family members as defined by rule of the department of
family services;
(B) A child or the parent, legal guardian or
other immediate family member of a child, as defined by rule of
the department of family services, who has been referred to a
behavioral health center by the department of family services
for treatment for a mental illness or a substance use disorder
and the treatment is necessary to prevent the removal of the
child from the child's home or to reunify the child with the
child's family;
(C) A child who has been referred to a
behavioral health center by a youth crisis shelter, school,
primary care provider, licensed therapist or law enforcement
officer for treatment for mental illness or a substance use
disorder that impacts the child's life.
(xviii) "General access clients" means persons who do
not meet the definition of a priority population under paragraph
(xxii) of this subsection;
(xix) "Indigent general access clients" means persons
who do not have private or public health insurance that provides
coverage for mental illness or substance use disorder treatment
and whose total household income is not more than two hundred
percent (200%) of the federal poverty level;
(xx) "Indigent clients with high needs" means persons
who meet the definition of indigent general access clients under
paragraph (xix) of this subsection and who have a mental illness
or substance use disorder that substantially impairs their
ability to function in society;
(xxi) "Nonstate level justice involved" means:
(A) Persons who within the previous six (6)
months have been placed on probation and made subject to an
intensive supervision program under W.S. 7-13-1102 that includes
treatment for a mental illness or a substance use disorder;
(B) Persons who within the previous six (6)
months have been convicted of or pled nolo contendere to a
criminal offense and ordered to enroll in a treatment program
for a mental illness or substance use disorder as part of their
sentence;
(C) Persons on probation, parole or who have
been conditionally released, who within the previous six (6)
months have been sanctioned under W.S. 7-13-1802(b)(iv) through
(vi) and ordered to receive treatment for a mental illness or a
substance use disorder;
(D) Qualified offenders under W.S. 7-13-1301
through 7-13-1304 who within the previous six (6) months have
been ordered to receive treatment for a substance use disorder.
(xxii) "Priority population" means any person, as
determined by the department, who falls into any of the
following categories:
(A) State level justice involved;
(B) Nonstate level justice involved;
(C) Families at high risk;
(D) Adults with acute mental illness;
(E) Adults with severe mental illness;
(F) Indigent clients with high needs;
(G) Indigent general access clients.
(xxiii) "State level justice involved" means persons
that within the previous six (6) months have been released or
paroled from an institution as defined by W.S. 7-13-401(a)(vi)
or who are awaiting admission to, evaluation from or have been
evaluated by a facility as defined under W.S. 7-11-301(a)(ii)
and who require continuing treatment for a mental illness or
substance use disorder;
(xxiv) "This act" means W.S. 35-1-611 through 35-1-
627.