Mississippi Administrative Code

A. Designated Mental Health Holding Facilities are facilities utilized to hold people who have been involuntarily civilly committed and are awaiting transportation and admission to a treatment facility. Designated Mental Health Holding Facilities provide housing, maintenance, and…

A. Each holding facility must have a manual that includes the written policies and procedures for operating and maintaining the facility holding people involved in the civil commitment process or those awaiting transportation to a certified/licensed mental health facility. Writte…

A. Supervisory and direct service employees who work with people being held in the holding facility as part of the civil commitment process must participate in training opportunities and other meetings, as specified, and required by DMH. B. Documentation of training of individual…

A. If the holding facility is being used for civil commitment purposes and is part of a correctional facility or jail, the people awaiting transfer related to civil commitment proceedings (or just people detained as part of the civil commitment process) must be held separately fr…

A. Each holding facility must have written procedures and documentation for clinical management of people who are involved in or have been involuntarily civilly committed and awaiting transportation. These procedures shall include, but not be limited to, the following:1. Immediat…

A. To ensure the dignity and rights of people being held in a holding facility for reasons of psychiatric crisis or civil commitment, reasonable access to the following must be allowed:1. Protection and advocacy services/information, such as Disability Rights Mississippi; 2. Depa…

A. The agency provider of the Consultation and Education Services must develop and implement a written plan to provide these services. The plan must include a range of activities for:1. Developing and coordinating effective mental health and substance use education, consultation,…

A. The Consultation and Education Services must be designed to specifically meet the needs of the target populations of:1. Children/youth; 2. Elderly people; 3. Pregnant and Parenting Women with a substance use disorder; 4. People who use intravenous drugs; 5. People infected wit…

A. Prevention/Early Intervention Services include preventive mental health services targeting vulnerable at-risk groups with the intent to prevent the occurrence of mental and/or emotional problems and services designed to intervene as early as possible following the identificati…

A. All Prevention/Early Intervention Services must maintain documentation that services include, but are not limited to, the following: 1. Informational activities designed to provide accurate and current information about emotional disturbance and mental illness in children/yout…

A. Records for people who are provided individualized Primary Prevention or Early Intervention/Prevention Services (such as home-based individual education, parent or sibling group education, screening/assessment or Crisis Intervention Services) must be maintained with applicable…

A. Family Support and Education Services provide self-help and mutual support for families of children/youth with serious emotional disturbances or mental health challenges. This service increases the knowledge, skills, and confidence of parents and family members in parenting th…

A. Making A Plan (MAP) Teams address the needs of children/youth, birth up to 21 years, with serious emotional/behavioral disorders and/or dually diagnosed with serious emotional/behavioral disorders and an intellectual disability or serious emotional disturbance and alcohol/drug…

A. Each agency provider certified as DMH/C must have a written plan that describes how each county in its catchment area will develop or have access to a MAP Team. The plan must include timelines for ensuring each county has access to or has developed a MAP Team. Additionally, th…

A. All certified agency providers, services, and service locations must have a current copy of the DMH Certificate of Operation. B. The following apply to a Certificate of Operation:1. The valid dates of certification, service(s), or service location(s) certified; site capacity o…

A. Initial certification is not renewable. Rather, initially certified providers must meet the timelines outlined in Chapter 2 to migrate to full certification. Otherwise, the initial certification expires. B. Certificates issued by DMH reflecting full certification are valid for…

A. Upon request, the Division of Certification may report specific information about DMH-certified providers. The fields of information which may be shared with the public are: 1. Provider Name; 2. Type of certification (Initial, Full, or Provider Designation Type); 3. Services/s…

A. Respite is short-term planned relief care in the home or community for children/youth with serious emotional/behavioral disturbances or mental health challenges. This service offers respite for caregivers and children/youth, helping family members to cope with their responsibi…

In addition to the requirements in Chapter 8, the written policies and procedures manual for the operation of Respite Services must also include the following areas: A. Written description of responsibilities of Respite Service providers/workers/mentors/volunteers. Documentation …

At the time of the initial interview, the agency provider of Respite Services must document that the following information has been provided in writing and explained in a manner easily understood to parent(s)/legal representative(s) and children/youth being served, as part of inf…

Agency providers of Respite Services must maintain case records on the children and youth served that include the following: A. A DMH Individual Crisis Support Plan; and B. Other forms, as required by DMH. Notes 24 Miss. Code. R. 2-40.4 Miss. Code Ann. § 41-4-7 Adopted 11/1/2024…

A. Wraparound Care Coordination is the creation and facilitation of a Wraparound Team for the purpose of developing a single plan of care to address the needs of children/youth with complex mental health challenges and their families. Wraparound Care Coordination is an approach t…

A. Wraparound Care Coordination must be provided in accordance with high fidelity and quality wraparound practice. Wraparound is evaluated through fidelity measures, as determined by DMH. B. Activities include:1. Engaging the family; 2. Assembling the Wraparound Team; 3. Facilita…

A. Peer Support Services are provided by Certified Peer Support Specialist Professionals (CPSSPs) who are people who self-identify as peers and have been successful in the recovery process from a behavioral health condition (mental health or substance use). CPSSPs use their lived…

A. Peer Support Services include a wide range of structured activities that are provided face-to-face or remotely to assist people in their recovery/resiliency process and are based on Peer Support Services Core Competencies, Principles, and Values for peer workers identified by …

The purpose of this chapter is to establish guidelines and incorporate best practices for the application of Applied Behavior Analysis principles and strategies to assist people demonstrating significant deficits or excesses in the areas of communication, activities of daily livi…

A. Agency providers of Support Coordination for the ID/DD Waiver and/or Targeted Case Management for the IDD Community Support Program are required to provide Support Coordination and/or Targeted Case Management statewide. B. Policies and procedures must outline the infrastructur…

A. Support Coordinators (SC) and Targeted Case Managers (TCM) are responsible for coordinating and monitoring all services a person receives, regardless of funding source, to ensure services are adequate, appropriate, meet individual needs, and ensure the person's health and welf…

A. In-Home Respite (IHR) provides temporary, periodic relief to those people normally providing care for the eligible person. In-Home Respite is provided in the home of the person receiving services. In-Home Respite personnel provide all the necessary care the usual caregiver wou…

A. Legally responsible relatives are not allowed to provide In-Home Respite. This includes legal guardians or legal representatives, including but not limited to spouses, parents/stepparents of minor children, conservators, guardians, people who hold the participant's power of at…

A. The standards in Rule 45.1 also apply (Except Rule 45.1.I). B. In-Home Nursing Respite is provided by a RN or LPN. The nurse must provide nursing services in accordance with the Mississippi Nursing Practice Act and other applicable laws and regulations. C. In-Home Nursing Resp…

A. Behavior Support provides systematic behavior assessment, Behavior Support Plan development, consultation, restructuring of the environment and training for people whose maladaptive behaviors are significantly disrupting their progress in learning, self-direction, or community…

A. Behavior Consultants must perform the following activities: 1. Provide consultation as part of the Functional Behavior Assessment; 2. Conduct Functional Behavior Assessment; 3. Develop Behavior Support Plan; 4. Implement the Behavior Support Plan to the degree determined neces…

A. Behavior Specialists are responsible for:1. Participating in the development of the Behavior Support Plan with the Behavior Consultant; 2. Continued implementation of the Behavior Support Plan; 3. Collecting and analyzing data for the effectiveness of the Behavior Support Plan…

A. All providers must allow for implementation of the Behavior Support Plan in the service setting regardless of if another provider employs the Behavior Support personnel. All appropriate employees must receive training from the Behavior Consultant and/or Behavior Specialists fr…

A. Home and Community Supports (HCS) are for people who live in the family home and provide assistance with activities of daily living (ADLs) and instrumental activities of daily living (IADLs) such as bathing, toileting, transferring and mobility, meal preparation (but not the c…

A. Legally responsible relatives are not allowed to provide Home and Community Supports (HCS). This includes legal guardians or legal representatives, including, but not limited to, spouses, parents/stepparents of minor children, conservators, guardians, people who hold the parti…

A. Transition Assistance is a one (1) time set-up expense for people who transition from institutions (ICF/IID or Title XIX nursing home) to the ID/DD Waiver. They may move to a less restrictive community living arrangement such as a house or apartment, with ID/DD Waiver Supports…

A. Examples of expenses that may be covered as Transition Assistance are: 1. Transporting furniture and personal possessions to the new living arrangement; 2. Essential furnishing expenses required to occupy and use a community domicile; 3. Linens and towels; 4. Cleaning supplies…

A. All DMH-certified service providers of substance use services must submit the Mississippi Substance Abuse Management Information System (MSAMIS) report to DMH by the 10th working day of the month following the reporting period. B. The Agency Provider must have written policies…

A. All DMH-certified substance use services must document and follow written policies and procedures that ensure: 1. People who are infected with HIV or TB are provided priority admission. 2. People who are infected with HIV or TB are placed in treatment services identified as th…

A. All providers must provide and document that all people receiving substance use disorder treatment services receive a minimum of one (1) hour of educational information concerning the following topics in a group and/or individual session: 1. HIV/AIDS (a) Modes of transmission;…

A. All substance use services must document and follow written policies and procedures that ensure:1. Pregnant women are given top priority for admission. 2. Pregnant women may not be placed on a waiting list. Pregnant women must be admitted into a substance use disorder treatmen…

A. Providers must ensure that, where appropriate, the family is treated as a unit, and both women and/or men, along with dependent children (aged five [5] and under) are admitted to treatment. Such admission may not be appropriate if, for example, the provider does not offer serv…

A. All DMH-certified substance use services must document and follow written policies and procedures that ensure: 1. People who use IV drugs are provided priority admission over non-IV drug users. 2. People who use IV drugs are placed in treatment services identified as the best …

A. Agency providers must determine and document, at intake, if the person has been convicted of more than one (1) DUI that has resulted in a suspended driver's license. If so, the agency provider must explain the DUI assessment and treatment process to the person and determine if…

A. A waiver of a specific standard may only be requested by a DMH fully certified provider. B. Approved waivers are typically granted for a maximum one (1) year period. The expectation is that the provider will be able to comply with the rule on or before the expiration of the gr…