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<regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".01" citation="COMAR 07.02.15.01" title_num="07" subtitle_num="02" chapter_num="15" heading="Purpose.">
  <paragraph num="A.">
    <text>The purpose of the Social Services to Adults (SSTA) Program is to engage clients and their formal and informal resources while in the process of decreasing risk to the client and achieving successful client goals through identification, linkage and enhancement of client supports and resources. This includes:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>Achieving or maintaining the client’s safe living environment in the community with formal and informal supports;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>Achieving or maintaining self-sufficiency;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(3)">
      <text>Preventing or avoiding abuse, neglect, self-neglect, or exploitation;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(4)">
      <text>Preventing or reducing unnecessary or inappropriate institutionalization;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(5)">
      <text>Achieving or maintaining economic self-support; and</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(6)">
      <text>Securing necessary and appropriate institutional care services.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="B.">
    <text>The program seeks to build, sustain, and augment, rather than to replace, the adult's formal or informal resources.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="C.">
    <text>SSTA targets service delivery resources to those clients most in need.</text>
  </paragraph>
</regulation>