67:62:12:01Eligibility criteria.

To be eligible for comprehensive assistance with recovery and empowerment services, a client must be at least eighteen years of age and: (1) The client must have one of the following: (a) Undergone psychiatric treatment more intensive than outpatient care and more than once in the client's lifetime; (b) Experienced a single episode of psychiatric hospitalization with a diagnosis of a major mental disorder; (c) Been treated with psychotropic medication for at least one year; or (d) Had frequent crisis contact with a community mental health center, or another mental health provider, for more than six months as a result of a mental illness; and (2) Meet three of the following: (a) The client must be unemployed or have markedly limited job skills or poor work history; (b) The client must exhibit inappropriate social behavior that results in concern by the community or requests for mental health or legal intervention; (c) The client must be unable to obtain public services without assistance; (d) The client must require public financial assistance for out-of-hospital maintenance, must have difficulty budgeting public financial assistance, or must require ongoing training in budgeting skills or require a payee; (e) The client must lack social support systems in a natural environment, live alone, or be isolated; or (f) The client must be unable to perform basic daily living skills without assistance.

Source: 43 SDR 80, effective December 5, 2016; 50 SDR 63, effective November 27, 2023.