Section 5878.
5878. (a) (1) The Secretary of California Health and Human Services, the Superintendent of Public Instruction, or the Secretary of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation may waive any state regulatory obstacles to the integration of public responsibilities and resources required for counties which have been approved as system of care counties. (2) The waiver shall remain in […]
Section 5878.1.
5878.1. (a) It is the intent of this article to establish programs that ensure services will be provided to severely mentally ill children as defined in Section 5878.2 and that they be part of the children’s system of care established pursuant to this part. It is the intent of this act that services provided under this […]
Section 5878.2.
5878.2. For purposes of this article, severely mentally ill children means minors under the age of 18 who meet the criteria set forth in subdivision (a) of Section 5600.3. (Added November 2, 2004, by initiative Proposition 63, Sec. 5. Operative January 1, 2005, pursuant to Sec. 16 of Prop. 63.)
Section 5878.3.
5878.3. (a) Subject to the availability of funds as determined pursuant to Part 4.5 (commencing with Section 5890) of this division, county mental health programs shall offer services to severely mentally ill children for whom services under any other public or private insurance or other mental health or entitlement program is inadequate or unavailable. Other entitlement […]
Section 5879.
5879. (a) It is the intent of the Legislature to increase the accountability of mental health and other human services programs whenever feasible by developing and implementing new and useful measures of performance, including client and cost outcomes. The Legislature recognizes the advances in performance and outcome evaluation made by counties funded under previous statutes and […]
Section 5880.
5880. For each selected county the State Department of Health Care Services shall define and establish client and cost outcome and other system performance goals, and negotiate the expected levels of attainment for each year of participation. Expected levels of attainment shall include a breakdown by ethnic origin and shall be identified by a county […]
Section 5881.
5881. (a) Evaluation shall be conducted by participating county evaluation staff and, subject to the availability of funds, by the State Department of Health Care Services and the Mental Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission. (b) Evaluation at both levels shall do all of the following: (1) Ensure that county level systems of care are serving the targeted […]
Section 5882.
5882. (a) Participating counties shall assign sufficient resources to performance evaluation to enable the county to fulfill all evaluation responsibilities specified in the contract with the department. (b) Counties shall cooperate with the department regarding the development of uniform measures of performance. (Amended by Stats. 2002, Ch. 1161, Sec. 39. Effective September 30, 2002.)
Section 5883.
5883. (a) The department shall facilitate improved access to relevant client and financial data from all state agencies, including, but not limited to, the State Department of Social Services, the State Department of Education, the State Department of Health Services, the State Department of Mental Health, the Department of the Youth Authority, and the Department of […]
Section 5886.
5886. (a) The Mental Health Student Services Act is hereby established as a mental health partnership grant program for the purpose of establishing mental health partnerships between a county’s mental health or behavioral health departments and school districts, charter schools, and the county office of education within the county. (b) The Mental Health Services Oversight and Accountability […]