Section 66.02. Definitions.

  In this chapter:

(1)  "Admission" means that a potential client has undergone an assessment and has been found appropriate to participate in TAP.

(2)  "Alcohol abuse" means the use of alcohol for non-medical purposes in a manner which interferes with one or more of the following: the person's physical health, psychological functioning, social adaptation, educational performance or occupational functioning.

(3)  "AODA" means alcohol or other drug abuse.

(4)  "Assessment" means the evaluation of a potential client's suitability for substance abuse treatment.

(5)  "Case management plan" means an individualized plan for securing, coordinating and monitoring the appropriate treatment interventions and services for a TAP client's successful treatment and criminal justice system outcome.

(6)  "Client" means a person who has been assessed by the TAP agency and found to be in need of treatment.

(7)  "Criminal justice system" means the officers, agencies and officials engaged in detecting, apprehending, prosecuting, adjudicating and maintaining custody of or supervising persons who have committed crimes.

(8)  "Criminal justice system component" means any functioning part of the criminal justice system from law enforcement through parole supervision.

(9)  "Criterion" means a standard, principle or test by which a potential TAP client is measured to determine whether he or she is suitable for AODA treatment.

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

(11)  "Drug dependent" has the meaning prescribed in s. 51.01 (8) , Stats., namely, a person who uses one or more drugs to the extent that the person's health is substantially impaired or his or her social or economic functioning is substantially disrupted.

(12)  "Identification" means the act of establishing whether someone accused or convicted of a crime is potentially eligible for TAP.

(13)  "Monitoring" means supervising or overseeing clients through the application of specific criteria to determine progress and success or failure.

(14)  "Potential client" means a person referred by a criminal justice system component to a TAP agency for assessment.

(15)  "Professional staff" means a TAP agency staff member who has direct responsibility for the provision of TAP services to clients.

(16)  "Referral" means the assignment by a criminal justice system component of a potential client to a TAP agency for assessment or the assignment by a TAP agency of a client to the most appropriate, available treatment agency.

(17)  "RFP" means a request for proposals, a document issued by the department to solicit applications for project support, and which defines project priorities, who may apply for funding, the amounts available for support of given types of projects, the term of projects, application procedures and review criteria.

(18)  "Screening" means a systematic examination of all accused or convicted offenders at a particular point in criminal justice system processing to determine their potential suitability for TAP.

(19)  "TAP" means the treatment alternative program authorized under s. 46.65 , Stats., to provide alcohol or other drug abuse services, as a treatment alternative in lieu of incarceration for eligible persons in need of those services.

(20)  "TAP agency" means an agency or organization under s. DHS 66.03 (1) that meets the requirements of this chapter and either has been awarded a grant by the department to provide TAP services or has not been awarded a grant by the department for this purpose.

(21)  "Treatment" means psychological, educational, social, chemical, medical or somatic techniques designed to bring about rehabilitation of an alcohol or other drug dependent person.

(22)  "Treatment agency" means a public or private agency that is approved by the department under ch. DHS 61 to provide AODA treatment services.

(23)  "Urinalysis" means examination of urine samples by various technical methods to determine the presence or absence of specified drugs or their metabolized traces.

(24)  "Voluntary informed consent" means agreement by a potential client to participate in TAP after a thorough explanation of its advantages and disadvantages, including potential benefits, sanctions by the criminal justice system, TAP agency and treatment agency rules and the likely consequences of successful or unsuccessful termination.

History: Cr. Register, January, 1989, No. 397 , eff. 2-1-89; corrections in (10) and (22) made under s. 13.92 (4) (b) 6. and 7. , Stats., Register November 2008 No. 635 .