Okla. Stat. tit. 10, § 10-175.20: Day treatment programs - Definition - Required programs

and policies.

A. As used in Sections 603.4 and 7102 of this title and the

Oklahoma Children’s Code, "day treatment program" means

nonresidential, partial hospitalization programs, day treatment

programs, and day hospital programs in which children and

adolescents are placed for psychiatric or psychological treatment.

Day treatment programs shall serve children and adolescents who are

experiencing severe psychiatric symptoms, disturbances of conduct,

decompensating conditions affecting mental health, or severe

developmental delays that seriously impair their capacity to

function age-appropriately in their daily lives and that place them

at risk of inpatient hospital, residential or other institutional

care. Day treatment programs shall provide mental health

ambulatory, active treatment programs that shall include

therapeutic, coordinated and structured clinical services in a

stable, therapeutic milieu, with the goal of preventing the need for

or reducing the length of inpatient or institutional care, and

reintegrating of the child into the school and the community. A day

treatment program shall not mean an alternative school or

alternative education program as such terms are defined in rules

promulgated by the State Board of Education.

B. All day treatment programs shall adopt:

1. A patient and family bill of rights;

2. Grievance procedures for reporting complaints or grievances

to the State Department of Health, the Department of Mental Health

and Substance Abuse Services or the Office of Client Advocacy, and

that are appropriate for the complaint or grievance; and

3. Policies governing the use of force, which shall be in

compliance with the provisions of Section 7004-3.3 of this title.

C. The Commission for Human Services shall promulgate rules

governing participation of a foster care family in the treatment of

a child and in family therapy with a child when the child is in

foster care.