Sec.17-226d-1. Definitions

For the purpose of sections 1 through 11 inclusive

(A) "Awardee" means the municipality or nonprofit organization which is a recipient of Commission funding.

(B) "Chart of Accounts" means a listing of the various fund accounts, income and expense classifications and their respective numerical designations, if any, that an organization utilizes to account for its financial transactions.

(C) "Client" means a person receiving services from an alcohol or drug abuse treatment program which is a recipient of Commission funding.

(D) "Commission" means the Connecticut Alcohol and Drug Abuse Commission.

(E) "Commission Staff" means one or more persons employed by the Commission in a professional capacity whose duties include responsibility for reviewing and evaluating program performance.

(F) "Continuum of Care" means the array of services including prevention, intervention and treatment services designed to meet a variety of needs resulting from potential or actual substance abuse.

(G) "Counseling Session" means a scheduled meeting of 30 minutes or longer duration where group, individual, or family counseling is provided.

(H) "Direct Costs" means those costs which can be identified specifically with a particular cost objective.

(I) "Eligible Clients" means those persons who are unable, either directly or through third party reimbursement or through a combination of both, to pay the full charge for services provided by an awardee under a fee for service award.

(J) "Employee Assistance" means a service funded by the Commission for the purpose of assisting employers in motivating and referring to appropriate professional assistance, those employees whose personal problems, which may include substance abuse, have seriously interfered with their job performance.

(K) "Excess Payments" means any payment made by the Commission pursuant to a fee for service award which exceeds the amount authorized for the actual services provided.

(L) "Executive Director" means the executive director of the Commission except where the context of a particular section indicates otherwise.

(M) "Fee-For-Service Award" means an agreement between the Commission and an awardee whereby the Commission reimburses the awardee for designated services at a predetermined rate up to a maximum amount specified in the contract or letter of award.

(N) "Governing Authority" means the person or persons with ultimate authority and responsibility for the overall operation of the awardee.

(O) "Grant" means an agreement between the Commission and a private nonprofit organization or municipality whereby the Commission awards funds to carry out specified programs, services or activities related to the prevention of, treatment of, or education about, substance abuse pursuant to the authority of Connecticut General Statutes section 17-226d.

(P) "Indirect Costs" means those costs incurred for a common or joint purpose benefiting more than one cost objective and not readily assignable to the cost objectives specifically benefited.

(Q) "Non competitive continuation award" means a subsequent award made to an awardee based on a history of satisfactory compliance with Commission requirements so that the awardee may continue to offer the services originally funded by the Commission.

(R) "Policy" means a statement of the principles which guide and govern the activities, procedures and operations of a program.

(S) "Probation" means a Commission decision to impose additional conditions on an awardee who is in violation of Commission requirements rather than terminate the awardee's letter of award or contract in order to provide an opportunity for the awardee to come into compliance with Commission requirements.

(T) "Procedure" means a series of activities designed to implement program goals or policy.

(U) "Program" means an organizational entity operated by an awardee which provides alcohol and/or drug abuse related services. A program may be an identified administrative unit within a larger organization or it may consist of more than one component.

(V) "Review and evaluation" means an assessment by Commission staff of an awardee's compliance with Commission regulations and the terms and conditions of the awardee's contract or letter of award. The assessment may include review of an awardee's records, review of an awardee's reports, on site visits, and interviews with the awardee's employees and any persons who receive services from the awardee's program.

(W) "Service Recipient" means a person who receives any type of services from a program which is a recipient of Commission funding.

(X) "State methadone authority" means the person having the powers and duties described in the Federal Methadone Regulations, 21CFR 291.505.

(Y) "Substance abuse" means the use of one or more drugs, including alcohol which significantly and negatively impacts one or more major areas of life functioning.

(Z) "Supplemental funding" means additional funding granted to an awardee by the Commission during the term of the awardee's contract or letter of award.

(AA) "Surplus"means the total amount awarded by the Commission plus the income received by the awardee for award supported activities which exceeds the total of allowable expenses.

(BB) "Terminate" means a unilateral decision by the Commission to end its financial support of an awardee because the awardee has been found to be in violation of Commission requirements.

(CC) "Treatment and rehabilitation" means one or more meetings between a client and a program's treatment staff wherein a broad range of planned services may be extended to the client including diagnostic evaluation, counseling, medical, psychiatric, psychological and supportive services which are designed to influence the behavior of clients toward identified goals and objectives.

(DD) "Treatment staff" means those persons employed by an awardee who are directly involved in client care and treatment.

(EE) "Unallocated funds" means those funds which, although appropriated by the Legislature for use by the Commission, have not been specifically designated for a particular type of recipient by the Commission.

(FF) "Unencumbered funds" means those funds which become available during a fiscal year due to underexpenditure of grant funds by awardees or delayed start-up of newly funded programs.

(Effective September 20, 1984)