Title 5 Courts

5-12-104. Definitions.

(a) As used in this act: (i) "Account" means the court supervised treatment account created by W.S. 5-12-107(a); (ii) "Applicant" means one (1) or more governing bodies of a city, town or county, a tribal government of either the Northern Arapaho or Eastern Shoshone tribes of the Wind River Indian Reservation or a nonprofit organization recognized under 26 U.S.C. 501(c)(3); (iii) "Continuum of care" means a seamless and coordinated course of substance use disorder education and treatment, mental health treatment or any combination thereof designed to meet the needs of participants; (iv) "Department" means the Wyoming department of health; (v) "Dual diagnosis" means a substance use disorder and a co-occurring mental health disorder; (vi) "Participant" means a person with a mental illness or a dual diagnosis who committed or is alleged to have committed an offense, including those who have had law enforcement contact for such offenses with or without arrest, or a substance offender or any other person as provided in title 14 of the Wyoming statutes who has been referred to and accepted into a program; (vii) "Participating judge" means the district, juvenile, circuit, chancery, municipal or tribal court judge or magistrate or retired district, circuit or chancery court judge acting as part of a program team; (viii) "Program" means one (1) or more local court supervised treatment or mental health programs that comply with rules and regulations adopted by the Wyoming supreme court; (ix) "Program coordinator" means the person responsible for coordinating the establishment, operation, evaluation and integrity of a program; (x) "Program team" means the team created pursuant to W.S. 5-12-111(a); (xi) "Recidivism" means any subsequent criminal charge; (xii) "Referring judge" means the district, juvenile, circuit, municipal or tribal court judge or magistrate who refers a participant to a program; (xiii) "Staffing" means the meeting of a program team before a participant's entry into the program, and during the participant's participation in the program, to plan a coordinated response to the participant's behaviors and needs; (xiv) "Substance" means alcohol, any controlled substance as defined in W.S. 35-7-1002(a)(iv), any substance used for mind altering purpose or over-the-counter medications and inhalants which are used in a manner not intended by the manufacturer; (xv) "Substance use disorder assessment" means as defined in W.S. 7-13-1301(a)(v); (xvi) "Substance use disorder treatment" means treatment designed to provide education, therapy and medication, as appropriate, directed toward ending a substance use disorder and preventing its return; (xvii) "Substance offender" means a person arrested for, charged with or adjudicated for a substance related offense or an offense in which substance use is determined from the evidence to have been a significant factor in the commission of the offense; (xviii) "Mental health treatment" means medication, therapy and prescribed care designed to address disturbances in behavior, emotions, thoughts or judgment after an evaluation and mental health diagnosis or diagnostic impression has occurred; (xix) For purposes of W.S. 5-12-101 through 5-12-118, "mental illness" means schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, major depressive disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder or bipolar disorder, as diagnosed by a mental health professional; (xx) "Substance use disorder" means as defined by W.S. 35-1-613(a)(viii); (xxi) "This act" means W.S. 5-12-101 through 5-12-118.