Residential Vocational or Life Skills Programs

The Division regulates Residential Vocational or Life Skills Programs pursuant to Utah Code Ann. §13-53.

A residential vocational or life skills program means a program that:

1. is operated by a nonprofit corporation, as defined in Section 16-6a-102,
2. does not accept local, state, or federal government funding, government grant money, or any other form of government assistance to operate or provide services or training;
3. operates on a mutually voluntary basis with each participant,
4. houses at a program facility in this state participants who are unrelated to an owner or a manager of the program facility without charging money for lodging, food, clothing, or training,
5. may house transitional graduates for a fee,
6. provides vocational training to participants,
7. provides life skills training to participants,
8. maintains a director or senior staff member at a program facility at all times when the facility is in use,
9. does not provide mental health services,
10. does not provide substance use disorder treatment,
11. does not accept payment from an insurance provider for a participant;
12. does not award a degree, diploma, or other educational credential commensurate with a degree or diploma,
13. does not hold itself out as a human services program, and
14. does not hold itself out as a proprietary school.

If a program does not meet the requirements included in the list, it is not eligible for registration with the Division as a residential vocational or life skills program.