Section 63.02. Definitions.

  In this chapter:

(1)  "Alcoholic" has the meaning prescribed in s. 51.01 (1) , Stats., namely, a person who is suffering from alcoholism.

(2)  "Alcoholism" has the meaning prescribed in s. 51.01 (1m) , Stats., namely, a disease which is characterized by the dependency of a person on the drug alcohol, to the extent that the person's health is substantially impaired or endangered or his or her social or economic functioning is substantially disrupted.

(3)  "Applicant" means a person who has begun, but not completed, the admissions process under s. DHS 63.09 .

(4)  "Assessment" means the process used to evaluate a client's presenting problems with an accompanying description of the reported or observed conditions which led to the classification or diagnosis of the client's chronic mental illness.

(5)  "Case management" means an organized process for providing a full range of appropriate treatment, rehabilitation and support services to a client in a planned, coordinated, efficient and effective manner.

(6)  "Certification" means the approval of a community support program by the department.

(7)  "Chronic mental illness" means a mental illness which is severe in degree and persistent in duration, which causes a substantially diminished level of functioning in the primary aspects of daily living and an inability to cope with the ordinary demands of life, which may lead to an inability to maintain stable adjustment and independent functioning without long-term treatment and support and which may be of lifelong duration."Chronic mental illness" includes schizophrenia as well as a wide spectrum of psychotic and other severely disabling psychiatric diagnostic categories, but does not include organic mental disorders or a primary diagnosis of mental retardation or of alcohol or drug dependence.

(8)  "Client" means an individual who has completed the admissions process under s. DHS 63.09 and is receiving treatment or services for mental illness.

(9)  "Community support program" or "CSP" means a coordinated care and treatment program which provides a range of treatment, rehabilitation and support services through an identified treatment program and staff to ensure ongoing therapeutic involvement, individualized treatment, rehabilitation and support services in the community for persons with chronic mental illness.

(10)  "County department" means a county department of community programs established under s. 51.42 , Stats.

(11)  "Department" means the Wisconsin department of health services.

(12)  "Developmental disability" has the meaning prescribed in s. 51.01 (5) (a) , Stats., namely, a disability attributable to brain injury, cerebral palsy, epilepsy, autism, mental retardation, or another neurological condition closely related to mental retardation or requiring treatment similar to that required for mental retardation, which has continued or can be expected to continue indefinitely and constitutes a substantial handicap to the afflicted individual. "Developmental disability" does not include senility which is primarily caused by the process of aging or the infirmities of aging.

(13)  "Drug dependence" has the meaning prescribed in s. 46.973 (1) (c) , Stats., namely, a condition arising from the periodic or continuous use of a drug which may result in psychic or physical dependence which would affect or potentially affect the public health, safety or welfare.

(14)  "Mental illness" means mental disorder to such an extent that an afflicted person requires care and treatment for his or her own welfare or the welfare of others or of the community. For purposes of involuntary commitment, "mental illness" means a substantial disorder of thought, mood, perception, orientation or memory which grossly impairs judgment, behavior, capacity to recognize reality or ability to meet the ordinary demands of life, but does not include organic mental disorder or a primary diagnosis of mental retardation, or of alcohol or drug dependence.

(15)  "Organic mental disorder" means a disorder which has as its essential feature psychological or behavioral abnormalities, or both, associated with transient or permanent dysfunction of the brain that prevents a person from adequately providing for his or her own care.

(16)  "Outreach" means procedures for identifying and contacting chronically mentally ill persons who are in need of CSP treatment and services, including referral agreements with psychiatric inpatient units, outpatient treatment clinics, and other community treatment and service providers.

(17)  "Practitioner" means any of the CSP staff members specified under s. DHS 63.06 (2) and (4) (a) .

(18)  "Service provider" means a county department or a private agency that provides one or more services under this chapter.

(19)  "Supervision" means intermittent face-to-face contact between a supervisor and a staff member to review the work of the staff member.

History: Cr. Register, April, 1989, No. 400 , eff. 5-1-89; correction in (11) made under s. 13.92 (4) (b) 6. , Stats., Register November 2008 No. 635 .