Maryland Code, HEALTH – GENERAL 8-6C-01
Terms Used In Maryland Code, HEALTH - GENERAL 8-6C-01
- including: means includes or including by way of illustration and not by way of limitation. See
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
- Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
(b) “Eligible functions” includes:
(1) Transportation to and from treatment services;
(2) Treatment, prevention, or coordination staff;
(3) Data sharing services among counties and other appropriate treatment providers;
(4) Education or outreach programs and materials;
(5) In-community emergency behavioral health services or crisis stabilization units; and
(6) Behavioral health programs in schools.
(c) “Eligible population” includes:
(1) Mothers of drug-addicted infants;
(2) Parents of children in need of assistance;
(3) Hospital emergency room admittees;
(4) Needy families receiving temporary cash assistance;
(5) Foster care children and parents;
(6) Children in after-school programs and their parents, including children and parents in programs supported by the Maryland After-School Opportunity Fund;
(7) Adolescents;
(8) Parents subject to arrearages in child support payments;
(9) Drug offenders under the supervision of the Division of Parole and Probation;
(10) Pretrial correctional inmates;
(11) Prerelease correctional inmates;
(12) The general inmate population within county-managed correctional facilities;
(13) Parents of children entering out-of-home placements or at risk of entering out-of-home placements; and
(14) Drug offenders under the supervision of the problem solving courts.
(d) “Partnership funding” means money granted from the Substance Abuse Treatment Outcomes Partnership Fund to match local funding.
(e) “Proposal” means a plan under this subtitle to provide new or expanded substance abuse treatment services.
(f) “Request for Partnership funding” means a proposal, submitted by the governing bodies of one or more jurisdictions, to provide substance abuse treatment services to one or more eligible populations or to provide eligible functions within the requesting jurisdiction or jurisdictions.