- (a) Licensure is required of any individual, partnership, association, or corporation operating or seeking to operate a substance abuse treatment program in the State of Arkansas.
- (b) Upon promulgation of revisions to the standards, the Office of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Prevention will provide to each of the programs known to be operating within Arkansas a copy of the newly issued Licensure Standards for Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse Treatment Programs manual.
(c)
- (1) A schedule for the licensure process for each treatment program with the participation of the program under review will be developed by the office.
(2) The entire licensure process for a program is shown below, with explanatory comments following:
- (A) Step 1.
(i) Programs currently licensed shall be notified by the office of the upcoming licensure review.
(ii) First-time applicants seeking licensure shall submit a completed application for licensure to the office.
- (iii) Unlicensed alcohol and other drug abuse treatment programs will be notified by the office of the need to make application for licensure;
(B) Step 2.
- (i) Receipt by the office of the program's completed application for licensure.
- (ii) First-time applicants shall submit a nonrefundable seventy-five dollar ($75.00) application fee.
- (iii) All licensed programs are billed annually by the office for a seventy-five dollar ($75.00) renewal fee;
- (C) Step 3. The office staff shall develop the schedule and requirements for the review of the program;
(D) Step 4. The office will provide written confirmation and notification to the program to include:
- (i) Timetable developed in Step 1 through Step 3 above;
- (ii)
- (a) (a) Members of the standards review team for that program.
(b) (b) See standards review team member selection process; and
- (iii)
- (a) (a) Notice of Requirement form.
(b) (b) The form must be signed and returned to the office prior to the start of the licensure review;
(E) Step 5. Formal on-site reviews by the office’s standards review team;
- (F) Step 6. Report by the office standards review team and recommendations to the Director of Program Compliance and Outcome Monitoring, Office of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Prevention;
- (G) Step 7. Formal report to the program including findings and recommendations of the office’s standards review team with the type of license awarded;
- (H) Step 8. When applicable, responses to the program's appeal and/or scheduling of a follow-up licensure review; and
(I) Step 9.
- (i) Submission to the office, by the program, of a one thousand five hundred dollar ($1,500) nonrefundable licensure review fee, for first-time applicants only, due after the review.
- (ii) Note. The formal license will only be issued upon receipt of payment of the licensure review fee.