Residential Treatment Program

There is established within the Guam Behavioral Health and Wellness Center a program entitled the Residential Treatment Program, to provide transitional living services for mentally ill and mentally retarded clients, to provide adequate and continuing supervision and counseling to clients released to the community and to acquaint and assist clients with various support agencies and programs. The Residential Treatment Program shall be fully operational within sixty

(60)days of enactment of this section. In evaluating clients for admission to such Program, the Department shall not require the consent of those mentally ill or retarded clients who are a physical threat to themselves, their families, or the public, but shall require the recommendation of such clients' parent(s), of the Superior Court of Guam, or of a licensed physician.