Section 5850.

5850. This part shall be known and may be cited as the Children’s Mental Health Services Act. (Repealed and added by Stats. 1992, Ch. 1229, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 1993.)

Section 5851.

5851. (a) The Legislature finds and declares that there is no comprehensive county interagency system throughout California for the delivery of mental health services to seriously emotionally and behaviorally disturbed children and their families. Specific problems to be addressed include the following: (1) The population of children which should receive highest priority for services has not been […]

Section 5851.5.

5851.5. For the purposes of this part, a “system of care county” means a county which has been approved by the State Department of Health Care Services as having the capability to provide child- and family-centered services in a collaborative manner, resulting in quantitative outcome measures. (Amended by Stats. 2012, Ch. 34, Sec. 196. (SB […]