It is the purpose of the Community Mental Health Services Act to (1) provide a range of community-based inpatient, outpatient, and support services for persons with mental disorders; (2) assist communities in planning, organizing, and financing community mental health services through locally developed, administered, and controlled community mental health programs; (3) better develop and use […]
(a) It is the policy of the state that (1) the community mental health program provide a comprehensive and integrated system of community-based facilities, supports, and mental health services, including child and adolescent screening and diagnosis, inpatient, outpatient, prevention, consultation, and education services; (2) persons most in need of community mental health services receive appropriate […]
(a) The department shall administer the provisions of AS 47.30.520 – 47.30.620 and shall (1) define and develop standards for various levels and qualities of mental health care; (2) provide fiscal and professional technical assistance in planning, organizing, developing, implementing, and administering local mental health services; (3) develop budgets and receive and distribute state appropriations […]
(a) A city or borough government or other political subdivision of the state, a nonprofit corporation, or a combination of these, is eligible to receive funds and administer local programs under AS 47.30.520 – 47.30.620. In order to ensure equitable access to funds and programs through the state, the department shall determine appropriate geographical areas […]
The entities designated by the department to receive money under AS 47.30.540(b) shall provide one or more of the services that are set out in AS 44.25.290(i) to persons identified in AS 44.25.290.
An entity that provides community mental health services shall (1) make services available at times and locations that enable residents of the entity’s service area to obtain services readily; (2) ensure each client’s right to confidentiality and treatment with dignity; (3) establish staffing patterns of qualified and trained personnel that reflect the cultural, linguistic, and […]
(a) In a district designated by the department as a poverty area, the department may fund not more than 90 percent of the eligible costs of the community mental health services to be furnished under an entity’s approved plan. (b) In a district that has not been designated by the department as a poverty area, […]
The contracts for services provided for in AS 47.30.520 – 47.30.620 shall be reviewed, revised if necessary, and approved at the expiration of each contract year. A contract shall be approved if the department finds that the community entity has complied with its plan, AS 47.30.520 – 47.30.620, and any applicable regulations adopted by the […]
The department shall adopt regulations specifying the types of services and program costs eligible for state participation. These regulations must include (1) a provision excluding capital expenditures as eligible costs; and (2) a requirement that the community entity contractor or applicant agrees as a condition of contract approval that it will not supplant existing local […]
Plans and regulations adopted under AS 47.30.520 – 47.30.620 must allow local programs sufficient administrative and program flexibility so that local community mental health programs may be joined with other programs such as intellectual and developmental disability programs, drug abuse programs, alcoholism programs, and comprehensive mental health services programs.
(a) An entity designated by the department under AS 47.30.520 – 47.30.620 may provide community mental health services authorized under AS 47.30.520 – 47.30.620 through telehealth to a patient in this state. (b) If an individual employed by an entity designated by the department under AS 47.30.520 – 47.30.620, in the course of a telehealth […]
(a) The department shall adopt regulations to assure patient rights and to safeguard the confidential nature of records and information about the recipients of services provided under this chapter. The regulations must require that entities identified in AS 47.30.540(b) develop and include in any plan submitted for approval adequate provisions for safeguarding confidential information. The […]
In AS 47.30.520 – 47.30.610, (1) “authority” means the Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority established in AS 44.25.200; (2) “department” means the Department of Health; (3) “persons with mental disorders” means persons with disorders currently included within nationally accepted diagnostic systems of the mental health professions; (4) “trust” has the meaning given in AS 44.25.295.
AS 47.30.520 – 47.30.620 may be cited as the Community Mental Health Services Act.
