Behavioral Health Services for Minors.

  1. Law
  2. Revised Code of Washington
  3. Mental Illness
  4. Behavioral Health Services for Minors.

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Section
71.34.010

Purpose.

Section
71.34.020

Definitions.

Section
71.34.300

Evaluation and treatment program for minors—Authority's responsibility.

Section
71.34.305

Notice to parents, school contacts for referring students to inpatient treatment.

Section
71.34.310

Jurisdiction over proceedings under chapter—Venue.

Section
71.34.315

Mental health commissioners—Authority.

Section
71.34.320

Transfer of superior court proceedings to juvenile department.

Section
71.34.325

Court proceedings under chapter subject to rules of state supreme court.

Section
71.34.330

Attorneys appointed for minors—Compensation.

Section
71.34.335

Court records and files confidential—Availability.

Section
71.34.351

Delivery of minor to treatment facilities.

Section
71.34.355

Rights of minors undergoing treatment—Posting—Waiver—Presumption of incompetency.

Section
71.34.356

Possessions of minors undergoing treatment.

Section
71.34.360

No detention of minors after eighteenth birthday—Exceptions.

Section
71.34.365

Release of minor—Requirements.

Section
71.34.375

Family-initiated treatment—Notice to parents of available treatment options.

Section
71.34.377

Failure to notify parent or guardian of treatment options—Civil penalty.

Section
71.34.379

Notice to parent or guardian—Treatment options—Policy and protocol adoption—Report.

Section
71.34.380

Department, department of health, and authority to adopt rules to effectuate chapter.

Section
71.34.385

Uniform application of chapter—Training for designated crisis responders.

Section
71.34.387

Online training for behavioral health providers—State law and best practices when providing behavioral health services to children, youth, and families.

Section
71.34.390

Redirection of Title XIX funds to fund placements within the state.

Section
71.34.395

Availability of treatment does not create right to obtain public funds.

Section
71.34.400

Eligibility for medical assistance under chapter 74.09 RCW—Payment by authority.

Section
71.34.405

Liability for costs of minor's treatment and care—Rules.

Section
71.34.406

Liability of costs of minor's treatment—Involuntary detention—Rules.

Section
71.34.410

Liability for performance of duties under this chapter limited.

Section
71.34.415

Judicial services—Civil commitment cases—Reimbursement.

Section
71.34.420

Evaluation and treatment services—Unavailability—Single bed certification.

Section
71.34.430

Release of adolescent's mental health information to parent without adolescent's consent.

Section
71.34.440

Detention of minors—Permission to leave facility.

Section
71.34.500

Self-admission of adolescent for inpatient behavioral health treatment or substance use disorder treatment—Requirements.

Section
71.34.510

Notice to parents of adolescent voluntarily admitted to inpatient treatment—When required—Duties of professional person in charge—Form of notice.

Section
71.34.520

Notice of intent to leave inpatient treatment by adolescent voluntarily admitted—Duties of receiving staff member—Time frame for discharge of adolescent.

Section
71.34.530

Outpatient treatment of adolescent.

Section
71.34.600

Parental request for determination of whether adolescent has a behavioral health disorder requiring inpatient treatment—Adolescent's consent not required for admission, evaluation, and treatment—Duties and obligations of professional person and facility.

Section
71.34.610

Authority's review of medical necessity of inpatient treatment of adolescent admitted to a facility due to parental request—Required considerations in making determination—Procedures for release—At-risk youth petition—Costs—Public funds.

Section
71.34.620

Adolescent's court petition for release from inpatient treatment facility—Judicial review of medical necessity.

Section
71.34.630

Adolescent not released from inpatient treatment facility by court petition—Release within thirty days—Initiation of proceedings to stop release.

Section
71.34.640

Evaluation of treatment of adolescents.

Section
71.34.650

Parental request for determination of whether adolescent has a behavioral health disorder requiring outpatient treatment—Adolescent's consent not required for evaluation and certain treatment—Treatment reviews—Discharge.

Section
71.34.660

Limitation on liability for admitting or accepting adolescent.

Section
71.34.670

"Appropriately trained professional person" defined by rule.

Section
71.34.680

Data collection and tracking system for adolescents receiving treatment.

Section
71.34.700

Evaluation of adolescent brought for immediate inpatient treatment—Temporary detention.

Section
71.34.705

Evaluation of adolescent brought for immediate inpatient treatment—Considerations.

Section
71.34.706

Evaluation of adolescent brought for immediate inpatient treatment—Considerations.

Section
71.34.710

Adolescent who presents likelihood of serious harm or is gravely disabled—Transport to inpatient facility—Petition for initial detention—Notice—Facility to evaluate and admit or release adolescent.

Section
71.34.720

Examination and evaluation of minor approved for inpatient admission—Referral to a secure withdrawal management and stabilization facility or substance use disorder treatment program—Right to communication, exception—Evaluation and treatment period.

Section
71.34.730

Petition for fourteen-day commitment—Requirements.

Section
71.34.735

Commitment hearing—Continuance or postponement.

Section
71.34.740

Commitment hearing—Requirements—Findings by court—Commitment—Release.

Section
71.34.750

Petition for one hundred eighty-day commitment—Hearing—Requirements—Findings by court—Commitment order—Release—Successive commitments.

Section
71.34.755

Less restrictive alternative treatment—Requirements.

Section
71.34.760

Placement of minor in state evaluation and treatment facility or substance use disorder treatment program—Placement committee—Facility or program to report to committee.

Section
71.34.770

Release of minor—Conditional release—Discharge.

Section
71.34.780

Minor's failure to adhere to outpatient conditions—Deterioration of minor's functioning—Transport to facility or program—Order of apprehension and detention—Revocation of alternative treatment or conditional release—Hearings.

Section
71.34.790

Transportation for minors committed to state facility for one hundred eighty-day treatment.

Section
71.34.795

Transferring or moving persons from juvenile correctional institutions or facilities to evaluation and treatment facilities.

Section
71.34.796

Transfer of person committed to juvenile correction institution to institution or facility for juveniles with behavioral health disorders.

Section
71.34.905

Rule making—Access to files and records of court proceedings.

Section
71.34.910

Appearance by video technology.

Section
71.34.3871

Annual survey to measure impacts of the adolescent behavioral health care access act (2019 c 381)—Reports to governor and legislature.