Transitional services for minors shall be designed to provide experiences that are structured, consistent and specialized at different levels of supervision, befitting the severity of symptoms and signs of the disorder in question by age and gender, while successfully enabling the minor to adapt to his/her environment and to become able to participate at another level of care which accords him/her greater autonomy, until he/she can reach his/her eventual independence within the community. Their main function shall be to render treatment, recovery and rehabilitation services focusing on the adequate development of the minor’s management of everyday life, in addition to providing care and custody in a safe and humane manner. An example of these services for the child and adolescent age bracket may [be] therapeutic homes or therapeutic communities provided by for-profit or nonprofit community-based organizations, among others.\nHistory —Oct. 2, 2000, No. 408, § 9.01, renumbered as § 9.01(B) on Aug. 6, 2008, No. 183, § 51.
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