SECTIONS 4030-4033 - California Statutes

WELFARE AND INSTITUTIONS CODE

SECTION 4030-4033

4030. The Director of Mental Health shall organize appropriate
staff of the department to ensure implementation of the planning,
research, evaluation, technical assistance, and quality assurance
responsibilities set forth in this chapter.

4031. The State Department of Mental Health shall, to the extent
resources are available, do all of the following:
(a) Conduct, sponsor, coordinate, and disseminate results of
research and evaluation directed to the public policy issues entailed
in the selection of resource utilization and service delivery in the
state.
(b) Make available technical assistance to local mental health
programs incorporating the results of research, evaluation, and
quality assurance to local mental health programs.
(c) Implement a system of required performance reporting by local
mental health programs.
(d) Perform any other activities useful to improving and
maintaining the quality of state mental hospital and community mental
health programs.

4032. The department shall, when appropriate, give and receive
grants and contracts for research, evaluation, and quality assurance
efforts.

4033. (a) The State Department of Mental Health shall, to the
extent resources are available, comply with federal planning
requirements. The department shall update and issue a state plan,
which may also be any federally required state service plan, so that
citizens may be informed regarding the implementation of, and
long-range goals for, programs to serve mentally ill persons in the
state. The department shall gather information from counties
necessary to comply with this section.
(b) (1) If the State Department of Mental Health makes a decision
not to comply with any federal planning requirement to which this
section applies, the State Department of Mental Health shall submit
the decision, for consultation, to the California Conference of Local
Mental Health Directors, the California Council on Mental Health,
and affected mental health entities.
(2) The State Department of Mental Health shall not implement any
decision not to comply with federal planning requirements sooner than
30 days after notification of that decision, in writing, by the
Department of Finance, to the chairperson of the committee in each
house of the Legislature which considers appropriations, and the
Chairperson of the Joint Legislative Budget Committee.