(a)

1. (1)

   1. (A) The Residential Community Reintegration Program is designed to serve as an intermediate level of care between inpatient psychiatric facilities and outpatient behavioral health services.
   2. (B) The program provides twenty-four-hour-per-day intensive therapeutic care provided in a small group home setting for children and youth with emotional and/or behavior problems that cannot be remedied by less intensive treatment.
   3. (C) The program is intended to prevent acute or sub-acute hospitalization of youth, or incarceration.
   4. (D) The program is also offered as a step-down or transitional level of care to prepare a youth for less intensive treatment.
2. (2) Services include all allowable outpatient behavioral health services (OBHS) based upon the age of the beneficiary as well as any additional interventions to address the beneficiary’s behavioral health needs.

(d)

1. (1) A residential community reintegration program shall, at a minimum, have two (2) direct service staff available at all times.
2. (2) Direct service staff may include any allowable performing provider in the OBHS manual, teachers, or other ancillary educational staff.

(e)

1. (1) A residential community reintegration program shall ensure the provision of educational services to all beneficiaries in the program.
2. (2) This may include education occurring on campus of the residential community reintegration program or the option to attend a school off campus if deemed appropriate in accordance with the Department of Education.