SERVICE

One or more organization-operated programs or activities that have a common general objective and deploy the organization's material and human resources in a planned and systematic manner. An organization that publicly promotes or identifies itself in writing as offering a service, is licensed to deliver a service, assigns personnel and/or space to a service, or allocates financial resources to a service is considered to offer that service.		  
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  PROGRAM

A system of services offered by an organization. For example, an organization providing a mental health service may offer several mental health programs to different populations, e.g., a mental health program for adolescent teens. The word "program" can be used interchangeably with the word "service" or to describe specific programs.		  
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Day Treatment Services: Social Adjustment Services; Intensive Outpatient Treatment; Partial Hospitalization
  
Private Org Public Agency  
Definition
  
Day Treatment Services are daytime programs that provide integrated, comprehensive treatment; educational, pre-vocational or vocational, and activity services to individuals; and therapeutic services to their families.
Interpretation: Day Treatment Services provide structured, daily activities for persons with physical or mental disabilities, emotional disorders, behavioral disorders, and/or substance use conditions. Day Treatment Services are designed to prevent movement to a more intensive level of care or as transitional or maintenance services for those who have stepped down from more intensive levels of care.
Note: An agency that provides day treatment for persons with substance use conditions will also complete standards for Services for Substance Use Conditions.

Note: Please see Self-Paced_Training: Day Treatment Services (DTX) in the Tools Index for additional assistance with this standard.
 
PURPOSE: Individuals with cognitive, psychiatric, behavioral, and/or substance use conditions and serious emotional disturbances who receive Day Treatment Services improve psychosocial, educational, vocational, and cognitive functioning, and learn to manage their symptoms.
 
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