The secretary of children, youth and families shall adopt rules to provide for:
A. minimum standards that shall be met by a residential treatment program, including a requirement that the program make reasonable provisions for adequate physical space for a school district to provide the required free appropriate public education;
B. procedures and forms for applying for a departmental grant or contract;
C. procedures and criteria for review and approval or denial of such applications;
D. procedures for approval of facilities and programs in or through which services are to be performed;
E. procedures and specifications of programmatic and financial information to be reported by residential treatment programs to the children, youth and families department for purposes of evaluating the effectiveness of programs funded by the department; and
F. procedures for review of potential clients for residential treatment or therapeutic group home care.
History: Laws 1979, ch. 227, § 2; 1992, ch. 57, § 38; recompiled as 1978 Comp., § 32A-12-2 by Laws 1993, ch. 77, § 213; 2009, ch. 162, § 2.
ANNOTATIONSCross references. — For children, youth and families department, see 9-2A-1 NMSA 1978 et seq.
The 2009 amendment, effective July 1, 2009, in Subsection A, after "residential treatment program", added the remainder of the sentence.