A regional or training school director may place any resident with intellectual disability committed or admitted to such training school, regional facility or other residential facility provided for the care and training of persons with intellectual disability, under the provisions of sections 17a-210 to 17a-247, inclusive, and 17a-273, in a community companion home, community living arrangement, group home, other residential facility or residential program to be cared for in accordance with the following conditions:

Terms Used In Connecticut General Statutes 17a-277

  • intellectual disability: means a significant limitation in intellectual functioning existing concurrently with deficits in adaptive behavior that originated during the developmental period before eighteen years of age. See Connecticut General Statutes 1-1g

(1) Such resident shall, despite such transfer, remain subject to the control of the regional or training school director and the director may, at any time, order and provide for the return of any such resident to such training school, regional facility or other residential facility provided for the care and training of persons with intellectual disability;

(2) When the transfer of any such resident has been authorized or when, having been transferred to a community companion home, community living arrangement, group home, other residential facility or residential program for persons with intellectual disability, such resident has returned to the training school, regional facility or other residential facility, the regional or training school director shall forthwith so notify the Commissioner of Developmental Services;

(3) Such community companion home, community living arrangement, group home, other residential facility or residential program shall be licensed by the Department of Developmental Services, the Department of Children and Families or the Department of Public Health under such regulations as the departments adopt, in accordance with chapter 54; and

(4) The Commissioner of Developmental Services shall, upon request, be given access to the complete record of any resident placed in a community companion home, community living arrangement, group home, other residential facility or residential program pursuant to this section.