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• § 5525 — (a) An employer, or any person acting on behalf of the employer, shall not make, adopt, or enforce any rule, regulation, or policy preventing a county patients’ rights advocate from disclosing informa
• § 5530 — (a) County patients’ rights advocates shall have access to all clients and other recipients of mental health services in any mental health facility, program, or service at all times as are necessary t
• § 5540 — Except as otherwise provided in this chapter or in other provisions of law, information about and records of recipients of mental health services shall be confidential in accordance with the provision
• § 5541 — (a) A specific authorization by the client or by the guardian ad litem is necessary for a county patients’ rights advocate to have access to, copy or otherwise use confidential records or information
• § 5542 — County patients’ rights advocates shall have the right to inspect or copy, or both, any records or other materials not subject to confidentiality under Section 5328 or other provisions of law in the p
• § 5543 — (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, with the authorization of the client, a county patients’ rights advocate may, to the extent necessary for effective advocacy, communicate to the client
• § 5544 — Any written client information obtained by county patients’ rights advocates may be used and disseminated in court or administrative proceedings, and to any public agencies, or authorized officials th
• § 5545 — Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to limit access to recipients of mental health services in any mental health facility, program, or service or to information or records of recipients of ment
• § 5546 — The actual cost of copying any records or other materials authorized under this chapter, plus any additional reasonable clerical costs, incurred in locating and making the records and materials availa
• § 5550 — (a) Any person participating in filing a complaint or providing information pursuant to this chapter or participating in a judicial proceeding resulting therefrom shall be presumed to be acting in goo
• § 5585 — This part shall be known as the Children’s Civil Commitment and Mental Health Treatment Act of 1988.
• § 5585.10 — This part shall be construed to promote the legislative intent and purposes of this part as follows: (a) To provide prompt evaluation and treatment of minors with a mental health disorder, with partic
• § 5585.20 — This part shall apply only to the initial 72 hours of mental health evaluation and treatment provided to a minor.
• § 5585.21 — The Director of Health Care Services may promulgate regulations as necessary to implement and clarify the provisions of this part as they relate to minors.
• § 5585.22 — The Director of Health Care Services, in consultation with the County Behavioral Health Directors Association of California, may develop the appropriate educational materials and a training curriculum
• § 5585.25 — “Gravely disabled minor” means a minor who, as a result of a mental disorder, is unable to use the elements of life that are essential to health, safety, and development, including food, clothing, and
• § 5585.50 — (a) When any minor, as a result of mental disorder, is a danger to others, or to himself or herself, or gravely disabled and authorization for voluntary treatment is not available, a peace officer, me
• § 5585.52 — Any minor detained under the provisions of Section 5585.
• § 5585.53 — If, in the opinion of the professional person conducting the evaluation as specified in Section 5585.
• § 5585.55 — The minor committed for involuntary treatment under this part shall be placed in a mental health facility designated by the county and approved by the State Department of Health Care Services as a fac
• § 5585.57 — A minor experiencing a mental health condition, upon being considered for release from involuntary treatment, shall have an aftercare plan developed.
• § 5585.58 — This part shall be funded under the Bronzan-McCorquodale Act pursuant to Part 2 (commencing with Section 5600), as part of the county performance contract.
• § 5585.59 — For the purposes of this part, legally emancipated minors requiring involuntary treatment shall be considered adults and this part shall not apply.
• § 5600 — (a) This part shall be known and may be cited as the Bronzan-McCorquodale Act.
• § 5600.1 — The mission of California’s mental health system shall be to enable persons experiencing severe and disabling mental illnesses and children with serious emotional disturbances to access services and p
• § 5600.2 — To the extent resources are available, public mental health services in this state should be provided to priority target populations in systems of care that are client-centered, culturally competent,
• § 5600.3 — To the extent resources are available, the primary goal of the use of funds deposited in the mental health account of the local health and welfare trust fund should be to serve the target populations
• § 5600.35 — (a) Services should be encouraged in every geographic area to the extent resources are available for clients in the target population categories described in Section 5600.
• § 5600.4 — Community mental health services should be organized to provide an array of treatment options in the following areas, to the extent resources are available: (a) Precrisis and Crisis Services.
• § 5600.5 — The minimum array of services for children and youth meeting the target population criteria established in subdivision (a) of Section 5600.
• § 5600.6 — The minimum array of services for adults meeting the target population criteria established in subdivision (b) of Section 5600.
• § 5600.7 — The minimum array of services for older adults meeting the target population criteria established in subdivision (b) of Section 5600.
• § 5600.9 — (a) Services to the target populations described in Section 5600.
• § 5601 — As used in this part: (a) “Governing body” means the county board of supervisors or boards of supervisors in the case of counties acting jointly; and in the case of a city, the city council or city co
• § 5602 — The board of supervisors of every county, or the boards of supervisors of counties acting under the joint powers provisions of Article 1 (commencing with Section 6500) of Chapter 5 of Division 7 of Ti
• § 5604 — (a) (1) (A) Each community mental health service shall have a behavioral health board consisting of 10 to 15 members, depending on the preference of the county, appointed by the governing body, except
• § 5604.1 — (a) Local behavioral health boards are subject to the provisions of Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 54950) of Part 1 of Division 2 of Title 5 of the Government Code, relating to meetings of local a
• § 5604.2 — (a) The local behavioral health board shall do all of the following: (1) Review and evaluate the community’s public behavioral health needs, services, facilities, and special problems in a facility wi
• § 5604.3 — (a) (1) The board of supervisors may pay from available funds the actual and necessary expenses of the members of the behavioral health board of a community mental health service incurred incident to
• § 5604.5 — The local behavioral health board shall develop bylaws to be approved by the governing body that shall do all of the following: (a) Establish the specific number of members on the behavioral health bo
• § 5607 — The local mental health services shall be administered by a local director of mental health services to be appointed by the governing body.
• § 5608 — The local director of mental health services shall have the following powers and duties: (a) Serve as chief executive officer of the community mental health service responsible to the governing body t
• § 5610 — (a) Each county mental health system shall comply with reporting requirements developed by the State Department of Health Care Services, in consultation with the California Behavioral Health Planning
• § 5611 — (a) The Director of State Hospitals shall establish a Performance Outcome Committee, to be comprised of representatives from the Public Law 99-660 Planning Council and the County Behavioral Health Dir
• § 5612 — (a) (1) The Performance Outcome Committee shall develop measures of performance for evaluating client outcomes and cost effectiveness of mental health services provided pursuant to this division.
• § 5613 — (a) Counties shall annually report data on performance measures established pursuant to Section 5612 to the local behavioral health board and to the Director of Health Care Services.
• § 5614 — (a) The department, in consultation with the Compliance Advisory Committee that shall have representatives from relevant stakeholders, including, but not limited to, local behavioral health department
• § 5614.5 — (a) The department, in consultation with the Quality Improvement Committee which shall include representatives of the California Behavioral Health Planning Council, local mental health departments, co
• § 5615 — If they so elect, cities that were operating independent public mental health programs on January 1, 1990, shall continue to receive direct payments.
• § 5616 — Nothing in this part shall prevent any city or combination of cities from owning, financing, and operating a mental health program.
• § 5618 — Mental health plans shall be responsible for providing information to potential clients, family members, and caregivers regarding specialty Medi-Cal mental health services offered by the mental health
• § 5622 — (a) A licensed inpatient mental health facility, as described in subdivision (c) of Section 1262 of the Health and Safety Code, operated by a county or pursuant to a county contract, shall, prior to t
• § 5623.5 — Commencing October 1, 1991, and to the extent resources are available, no county shall deny any person receiving services administered by the county mental health program access to any medication whic
• § 5623.6 — (a) Individuals who have been found incompetent to stand trial and whose charges have been dismissed by the court pursuant to paragraph (2) of subdivision (b) of Section 1370.
• § 5650 — (a) The State Department of Health Care Services and each county shall have a performance contract for community mental health services, the Mental Health Services Act, the Projects for Assistance in
• § 5650.5 — Any other provision of law referring to the county Short-Doyle plan shall be construed as referring to the county mental health services performance contract described in this chapter.
• § 5651 — (a) Counties shall comply with the terms of the county mental health services performance contract.
• § 5652.5 — (a) Each county shall utilize available private and private nonprofit mental health resources and facilities in the county prior to developing new county-operated resources or facilities when these pr
• § 5652.7 — A county shall have only 60 days from the date of submission of an application to review and certify or deny an application to establish a new mental health care provider.
• § 5653 — (a) Optimum use shall be made of appropriate local public and private organizations, community professional personnel, and state agencies.
• § 5653.1 — In conducting evaluation, planning, and research activities, counties may contract with public or private agencies.
• § 5654 — In order to serve the increasing needs of children and adolescents with mental and emotional problems, county mental health programs may use funds for the purposes of consultation and training.
• § 5655 — All departments of state government and all local public agencies shall cooperate with county officials to assist them in mental health planning.
• § 5657 — (a) The private organization or private nonprofit organization awarded a contract with the county agency to supply mental health services under this part shall provide an invoice to the county for the
• § 5664 — (a) In consultation with the County Behavioral Health Directors Association of California, the State Department of Health Care Services, the Behavioral Health Services Oversight and Accountability Com
• § 5665 — After the development of performance outcome measures pursuant to Section 5610, whenever a county makes a substantial change in its allocation of mental health funds among services, facilities, progra
• § 5667 — (a) A community mental health center shall be considered to be a licensed facility for all purposes, including all provisions of the Health and Safety Code and the Insurance Code.
• § 5670 — (a) It is the intent of the Legislature to encourage the development of a system of residential treatment programs in every county which provides a range of alternatives to institutional care based on
• § 5670.5 — Criteria for community residential treatment system programs are as follows: (a) Facilities: (1) Settings, whether residential or day, should be as close to a normal home environment as possible witho
• § 5671 — The following should be the programs in the community residential treatment system.
• § 5671.5 — It is the intent of the Legislature that programs serving children and adolescents should be established under this chapter.
• § 5672 — The types of programs serving children and adolescents referred to in Section 5671.
• § 5675 — (a) (1) Mental health rehabilitation centers shall only be licensed by the State Department of Health Care Services subsequent to application by counties, county contract providers, or other organizat
• § 5675.05 — (a) A mental health rehabilitation center may admit clients diagnosed only with a severe substance use disorder, as defined in subdivision (o) of Section 5008, under the following conditions: (1) The
• § 5675.1 — (a) In accordance with subdivision (b), the State Department of Health Care Services may establish a system for the imposition of prompt and effective civil sanctions for long-term care facilities lic
• § 5675.2 — (a) There is hereby created in the State Treasury the Mental Health Facility Licensing Fund, from which money, upon appropriation by the Legislature in the Budget Act, shall be expended by the State D
• § 5676 — (a) The State Department of Health Care Services, in conjunction with the State Department of Public Health, shall develop a state-level plan for a streamlined and consolidated evaluation and monitori
• § 5676.5 — (a) It is the intent of the Legislature to ensure that funds allocated to establish or enhance mental health programs are used to integrate the new or enhanced program into an existing system of care.
• § 5680 — To assist persons who are homeless with a mental health disability to secure, stabilize, and maintain safe and adequate living arrangements in the community, the Legislature hereby establishes the Com
• § 5681 — (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that, when funds are made available, counties should ensure the delivery of long-range services and community support assistance to persons who are homeless wit
• § 5682 — The goal of the community support system is to ensure that needed community services are provided to persons who are homeless with a mental health disability and those at risk of becoming homeless to
• § 5683 — The function of the community support system is to conduct active outreach to persons who are homeless with a mental health disability, to secure and maintain income, housing, food, and clothing for c
• § 5683.5 — Community support systems may provide temporary funds to their homeless clients for their personal incidental living needs while the clients are in residential placement.
• § 5685 — Counties may provide specific services, contract with a public or private agency, or a combination of both.
• § 5685.5 — (a) A county may contract with the local office of the public guardian to receive and manage income and benefits for persons with a mental health condition, regardless of whether the persons are under
• § 5686 — If a county believes that a person with a mental health disability may be unable to manage their SSI/SSP funds, the county mental health program shall advise the person that they may have a trusted fa
• § 5686.5 — In order to make the most efficient use of the public funds appropriated for this purpose, counties are encouraged to maximize the use of existing public and private community resources.
• § 5688.6 — All funds appropriated for persons who are homeless with a mental health disability that have been determined to be unexpended and unencumbered two years after the date the funds were appropriated sha
• § 5690 — It is the intent of the Legislature to, encourage the establishment in each county of a system of community vocational rehabilitation and employment services, for persons with serious psychiatric disa
• § 5691 — (a) A county may implement the community vocational rehabilitation system described in this chapter with existing county allocations, funds available from the Department of Rehabilitation and other st
• § 5692 — The State Department of Health Care Services shall, to the extent resources are available, have responsibility for the provision of technical assistance, maximizing federal revenue, and ensuring coord
• § 5692.5 — Programs that constitute the community vocational rehabilitation system are of the following types: (a) Prevocational programs should be, but are not limited to, components of day treatment programs,
• § 5693 — The following principles should guide development of community vocational rehabilitation systems: (a) Work: (1) Work should be meaningful, necessary, and have value to the individual performing it.
• § 5693.2 — Counties undertaking development of a community vocational rehabilitation system are encouraged to establish an advisory group consisting of primary consumers, parents, representatives from the busine
• § 5693.5 — The director shall provide technical assistance to those counties developing a community vocational rehabilitation system.
• § 5694 — A community support program for persons who are homeless with a mental health disability should also assist its clients to establish self-help groups and peer counseling.
• § 5694.5 — The counties may utilize designated mental health funding pursuant to this part for establishing and maintaining any client self-help mental health projects.
• § 5694.7 — When the director of behavioral health in a county is notified pursuant to Section 319.
• § 5695 — The Legislature finds and declares the following: (a) The Legislature has declared its intent to provide, at the local level, a range of appropriate mental health services for minors with serious emot
• § 5695.2 — There may be established, on a regional basis, secure facilities which are physically and programmatically designed for the commitment and ongoing treatment of minors with serious emotional disturbanc
• § 5695.5 — A board of directors for a facility shall be established to provide oversight and direction to the design, implementation, and operation of the facility in order to ensure adherence to the statement o
• § 5695.7 — (a) The board of directors shall be composed of the chief probation officer and the local mental health directors of each of the participating counties.
• § 5696 — Prior to the opening of a regional facility, the board of directors shall develop written admission criteria, approved by the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Division of Juvenile Facilit
• § 5696.2 — No ward shall be admitted to any regional facility described in this chapter who meets any of the following criteria: (a) The ward has a primary substance abuse problem.
• § 5696.5 — Prior to the opening of a facility, the board of directors shall establish written program standards and policies and procedures, approved by the Division of Juvenile Facilities that address and inclu
• § 5696.7 — Wards shall be referred for admission to the director of a regional facility following screening and approval through a joint mental health and probation screening committee in the county which refers
• § 5697 — The regional board of directors shall contract with the county in which the regional facility is located for the provision of a public education program which will meet the educational requirements an
• § 5697.2 — The board of directors of a regional facility shall submit to the Director of the Youth Authority, a report which includes, at a minimum, a description of the regional facility, the population to be s
• § 5697.5 — The Director of the Youth Authority, in conjunction with the Director of Mental Health, shall adopt rules and regulations to establish, monitor, and enforce minimum standards for regional facilities.
• § 5698 — It is the intent of the Legislature to encourage in each county a system of care for children and youth with serious emotional disturbance.
• § 5699 — (a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (1) That mental health case management services required for children with serious emotional disturbance are different than these services
• § 5699.1 — Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions in this article govern the construction of this chapter.
• § 5699.2 — Children identified for case management services under this section shall be minors under 18 years of age described in Section 5600.
• § 5699.3 — “Individual treatment plan” means a plan that includes all of the following: (a) An assessment of the minor’s specific capabilities and problems.
• § 5699.4 — On and after January 1, 1987, any county may provide case management services for children with serious emotional disturbance pursuant to this chapter.
• § 5699.5 — Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to authorize the use of state funds to provide services under this chapter or to enforce the provisions of this chapter.
• § 5700 — (a) The Legislature recognizes that mental health services provided by county mental health programs are funded from the following general categories or sources of public funding: (1) Funds received b
• § 5701 — (a) To achieve equity of funding, available funding for local mental health programs beyond the funding provided pursuant to Section 17601 shall be distributed to cities, counties, and cities and coun
• § 5701.1 — Notwithstanding Section 5701, the State Department of Health Care Services, in consultation with the County Behavioral Health Directors Association of California and the California Behavioral Health P
• § 5701.2 — (a) The State Department of Mental Health, or its successor, the State Department of State Hospitals, shall maintain records of any transfer of funds or state hospital beds made pursuant to Chapter 13
• § 5701.4 — Costs that were reimbursed, prior to July 1, 1991, from the local assistance appropriation contained in Item 4440-101-001 of the annual Budget Act, shall be reimbursed from funds received by counties
• § 5701.5 — City-operated Bronzan-McCorquodale programs paid by the state under Section 5615 shall be directly funded in accordance with this chapter.
• § 5702 — For the purposes of this part, the definition of maintenance of effort contained in Section 17608.
• § 5703 — Nothing in this chapter shall prevent a county, or counties acting jointly, from appropriating additional funds for mental health services.
• § 5704 — Funds described in paragraphs (1) and (2) of subdivision (a) of Section 5700 shall be deposited in the mental health account of the local health and welfare trust fund and shall only be used to fund e
• § 5704.5 — (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that special consideration be given to children’s services in funding county services to expand existing programs or to establish new programs.
• § 5704.6 — (a) Except as provided in subdivision (c), each county shall allocate for services to persons under age 18, 50 percent of the amount of any funding augmentation received for new or expanded mental hea
• § 5705 — (a) Negotiated net amounts may be used as the cost of services in contracts between the county and a subprovider of services.
• § 5706 — Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the portions of the county mental health services performance contract which become a contractual arrangement between the county and the department shall be
• § 5707 — Funds appropriated to the State Department of Health Care Services which are designated for local mental health services and funds which the State Department of Health Care Services is responsible for
• § 5709 — (a) A county shall not charge fees for Medi-Cal specialty mental health services to Medi-Cal beneficiaries who do not have a share of cost or Medi-Cal beneficiaries who have met their share of cost pu
• § 5710 — (a) Charges for the care and treatment of each patient receiving service from a county mental health program shall not exceed the actual cost thereof as determined or approved by the Director of Healt
• § 5713 — Advances for funding mental health services may be made by the Director of Mental Health from funds appropriated to the department for local mental health programs and services specified in the annual
• § 5714 — To continue county expenditures for legal proceedings involving persons with mental health disorders, the following costs incurred in carrying out Part 1 (commencing with Section 5000) of this divisio
• § 5715 — Subject to the approval of the State Department of Health Care Services, at the end of the fiscal year, a county may retain unexpended funds allocated to it by the department from funds appropriated t
• § 5717 — (a) Expenditures that may be funded from amounts allocated to the county by the State Department of Health Care Services from funds appropriated to the department shall include, salaries of personnel,
• § 5730 — This act is to be known as the Mental Health Master Plan Development Act.
• § 5731 — The Legislature finds and declares that the mental health system is a large and important segment of California’s system of health care.
• § 5732 — (a) Given the requirements of Public Law 99-660 and the significant policy issues currently facing the mental health system in California, a master plan for mental health is required which integrates
• § 5733 — The Mental Health Master Plan shall include, but not be limited to, an analysis of all of the following: (a) The specific planning elements required by Public Law 99-660.
• § 5750 — The State Department of Health Care Services shall administer this part and shall adopt standards for the approval of mental health services, and rules and regulations necessary thereto.
• § 5751 — (a) Regulations pertaining to the qualifications of directors of local mental health services shall be administered in accordance with Section 5607.
• § 5751.1 — Regulations pertaining to the position of director of local mental health services, where the local director is other than the local health officer or medical administrator of the county hospitals, sh
• § 5751.2 — (a) Except as provided in this section, persons employed or under contract to provide mental health services pursuant to this part, or pursuant to Article 5 (commencing with Section 14680) of Chapter
• § 5751.7 — (a) For the purposes of this part and the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act (Part 1 (commencing with Section 5000)), the State Department of Health Care Services and the State Department of State Hospitals s
• § 5755.1 — The state mental health plan shall be submitted to the California Council on Mental Health and the Advisory Health Council or its successor for review and recommendations as to conformance with Califo
• § 5767 — The department, in consultation with a statewide organization representing county mental health services, shall strengthen and ensure statewide application of managed care principles, building on exis
• § 5768 — (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, except as to requirements relating to fire and life safety of persons with mental illness, the State Department of Health Care Services, in its discreti
• § 5768.5 — (a) When a mental health patient is being discharged from any facility authorized under Section 5675 or 5768, the patient and the patient’s conservator, guardian, or other legally authorized represent
• § 5769 — Whenever the director determines that a county’s personnel regulations and procedures are impediments to the timely implementation of programs developed and implemented pursuant to Section 5768, the d
• § 5770 — Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the State Department of Health Care Services may directly, or by contract, with any public or private agency, provide any of the services under this divisio
• § 5770.5 — The State Department of Health Care Services shall encourage county mental health programs to develop and support local programs designed to provide technical assistance to self-help groups for the pu
• § 5771 — (a) Pursuant to Public Law 102-321, there is the California Behavioral Health Planning Council.
• § 5771.1 — (a) The members of the Behavioral Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission established pursuant to Section 5845 are members of the California Behavioral Health Planning Council.
• § 5771.3 — The California Behavioral Health Planning Council may utilize staff of the State Department of Health Care Services, to the extent they are available, and the staff of any other public or private agen
• § 5771.5 — (a) (1) The Chairperson of the California Behavioral Health Planning Council, with the concurrence of a majority of the members of the California Behavioral Health Planning Council, shall appoint an e
• § 5772 — The California Behavioral Health Planning Council shall have the powers and authority necessary to carry out the duties imposed upon it by this chapter, including, but not limited to, the following: (
• § 5800 — This part shall be known and may be cited as the Adult and Older Adult Mental Health System of Care Act.
• § 5801 — (a) A system of care for adults and older adults with severe mental illness results in the highest benefit to the client, family, and community while ensuring that the public sector meets its legal re
• § 5802 — (a) The Legislature finds that a mental health system of care for adults and older adults with severe and persistent mental illness is vital for successful management of mental health care in Californ
• § 5803 — (a) The State Department of Health Care Services shall issue a request for proposals to develop system of care programs no later than October 1 in any year in which the state budget provides new funds
• § 5805 — (a) The State Department of Health Care Services shall require counties to use available state and matching funds for the client target population as defined in Section 5600.
• § 5806 — (a) The State Department of Health Care Services shall establish service standards so that adults and older adults in the target population are identified and receive needed and appropriate services f
• § 5807 — (a) The State Department of Health Care Services shall require counties which receive funding to develop interagency collaboration with shared responsibilities for services under this part and achieve
• § 5808 — In order to reduce the state and county cost of a mental health system of care, participating counties shall collect reimbursement for services from clients which shall be the same as patient fees est
• § 5809 — The State Department of Health Care Services shall continue to work with participating counties and other interested parties to refine and establish client and cost outcome and interagency collaborati
• § 5813 — County participation under this part shall be voluntary.
• § 5813.5 — (a) Counties shall use funds distributed pursuant to subdivision (c) of Section 5891 for the provision of behavioral health services under Sections 5801, 5802, 5806, and 5891.
• § 5813.6 — (a) (1) By July 1 of each year, the Director of Health Care Services shall submit to the Legislature final budget enactment information regarding the expenditure of Proposition 63 funding for each sta
• § 5814 — (a) (1) This part shall be implemented only to the extent that funds are appropriated for purposes of this part.
• § 5814.5 — (a) (1) In any year in which funds are appropriated for this purpose through the annual Budget Act, counties funded under this part in the 1999–2000 fiscal year are eligible for funding to continue th
• § 5815 — The State Department of Health Care Services shall seek all available federal funding for mental health services for veterans.
• § 5820 — (a) It is the intent of this part to establish a program with dedicated funding to remedy the shortage of qualified individuals to provide services to address severe mental illnesses.
• § 5821 — (a) The California Behavioral Health Planning Council shall advise the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development on education and training policy development and provide oversight for educat
• § 5822 — The Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development shall include in the five-year plan: (a) Expansion plans for the capacity of postsecondary education to meet the needs of identified mental heal
• § 5830 — (a) (1) Each county shall establish and administer a program for housing interventions to serve persons who are chronically homeless or experiencing homelessness or are at risk of homelessness, as def
• § 5831 — (a) (1) Notwithstanding any other law, a capital development project funded, in whole or in part, pursuant to Section 5892 shall be a use by right that shall be subject to the streamlined, ministerial
• § 5835 — (a) This part shall be known, and may be cited, as the Early Psychosis Intervention Plus (EPI Plus) Program to encompass early psychosis and mood disorder detection and intervention.
• § 5835.1 — (a) The Early Psychosis and Mood Disorder Detection and Intervention Fund is hereby created within the State Treasury.
• § 5835.2 — (a) There is hereby established an advisory committee to the commission.
• § 5835.3 — (a) It is the intent of the Legislature to authorize the commission to administer a competitive selection process as provided in this part to create new, and to expand and improve the fidelity of exis
• § 5835.4 — Notwithstanding the rulemaking provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act (Chapter 3.
• § 5835.5 — Implementation of the grant program established pursuant to Section 5835.
• § 5840 — (a) The State Department of Health Care Services, in coordination with counties, shall establish a program designed to prevent mental illnesses from becoming severe and disabling.
• § 5840.2 — The department shall contract for the provision of services pursuant to this part with each county mental health program in the manner set forth in Section 5897.
• § 5840.6 — For purposes of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply: (a) “Commission” means the Behavioral Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission established pursuant to Section 5845.
• § 5840.7 — (a) On or before January 1, 2020, the commission shall establish priorities for the use of prevention and early intervention funds.