Section 4. Definition of Terms
Effective August 31, 2021
The following terms, when used in these rules, shall have the meanings below unless the context clearly indicates a different meaning:
"Addiction treatment services" means a broad range of planned and continuing care, treatment, and rehabilitation, including, but not limited to, counseling, psychological, medical, and social service care designed to influence the behavior of individual alcohol abusers or drug abusers, based on an individual treatment plan.
"Alcohol abuse" means use of alcohol to an extent that harms the individual or society.
"Alcohol and drug services program" means an entity that provides a service for persons charged with or convicted of an infraction, a misdemeanor, or a felony and that provides substance abuse assessment, intervention, education, referral, treatment, or rehabilitation pursuant to IC 12-23-14 under the operation of a court or under a private contract between a court and a contractor.
"Assessment" means a process of evaluating and determining an appropriate level of alcohol and drug services intervention based on information obtained from the client in a personal interview and from other sources to develop the individual service contract.
The program’s assessment process may incorporate the alcohol and drug assessment with the IRAS.
"Assessment staff status" means a program staff member hired prior to January 1, 2005, who has completed the requirements, and maintains continuing education requirements as set forth in the rules, that make the staff member eligible to conduct assessments on an ongoing basis.
"Case management" means goal-oriented activities that facilitate, coordinate, or monitor the full range of basic human needs, treatment, and service resources and delivery for individual alcohol and drug program clients.
"Case termination" means following the procedure for terminating a client’s court-imposed obligation to participate in the services of an alcohol and drug services program.
"Certification areas" means the areas of compliance with the statutes and rules that are evaluated during a certification review. They include administration, program management, clinical standards, facilities, fiscal management, and personnel management.
"Certified organization" means an applicant that has successfully applied for and has received a certification of approval from the Indiana Office of Court Services.
"Client" means any person who has applied for and has received services in the program. This term does not include persons whose only contact with the program has been through telephone.
"Client intake" means the administrative process for admission to a program.
"Client record" means any documentation created, collected, received or maintained by the program on a client.
"Cognitive-based" means an approach to substance abuse education that attempts to reduce the desire to use alcohol or drugs by weakening the beliefs that promote risky use and teaching ways to modify behavior.
"Court-administered alcohol and drug service" means the same as “alcohol and drug services program.”
"Court Substance Abuse Management Specialist" (CSAMS) means a designation and a credential awarded to staff members of alcohol and drug services programs that meet established professional standards and testing requirements.
"Documentation" means a written, paper or electronic, record acceptable as evidence to demonstrate compliance with these rules.
"Drug" includes any controlled substance as defined in IC 35-48-1-9 and any drug as defined in IC 9-13-2-49.1.
"Drug abuse" means the use of drugs or harmful substances to an extent that harms the individual or society.
"Education, alcohol and drug" means cognitive and affective presentation of topics relevant to alcohol and drug abuse, the nature of alcohol and other drug dependence, the role of self-help groups in recovery, personal support systems, and relapse prevention.
"Eligibility determination" means, in the case of an alcohol and drug services program, a procedure for determining a prospective client's eligibility for admission to the program, including a review of the prospective client's legal eligibility under IC 12-23-5-7, a review of eligibility under court-imposed rules, and recorded entries of the court's finding in each case.
"Evaluation" means a systematic process used to assess program outcomes in light of identified goals and objectives.
"Governing body" means an individual, board, or other entity that has ultimate responsibility for the management, operation and control of the program.
"Harmful substance" means any substance used by an individual to produce the effect of a controlled substance, although the substance is not classified as a controlled substance under IC 35-48 or as a drug under IC 9-13-2-49.1.
"Indiana Risk Assessment System" (IRAS) means the system made up of several instruments to be used at specific points in the criminal justice process to identify a client’s risk to reoffend and criminogenic needs and assist with developing individual service contracts.
"Individual service contract" means a written contract between a client and an alcohol and drug services program, appropriate to meet the identified needs of the client, which specifies goals, activities and services required as determined through a process of assessment.
"Policy" means a statement of the principles that guide and govern the activities, procedures, and operations of a program.
"Procedure" means a series of activities designed to implement program goals or policy.
"Professional staff member" means an employee, contractor, or volunteer employed by a program and performs a minimum of 15 hours of program management, client assessment, or client case management services as defined by these rules, each quarter of each calendar year.
"Program" means any person, firm, corporation, partnership, association, foundation, governmental unit, or agency, whether public or private, that provides or intends to provide court-administered alcohol or drug services to persons who are ordered by the court to participate in the program.
"Program director" means the person responsible for program management.
"Program management" means the responsibilities of a program director for the daily oversight of the program including the direct supervision of professional staff members.
"Service" means the broad range of planned care, including intervention, diagnostic evaluation, referral, case management, and monitoring, which may be extended to program clients, and which influences the behavior of such individuals toward identified goals and objectives.
"Substance" means any drug, controlled substance, or alcohol.
"Substance abuse" means the use of alcohol or other drugs to an extent that harms the individual or society.
"Volunteer" means a person who, without direct financial remuneration, provides ongoing services to the program.