633.030. Department to develop state plan, contents. - Missouri Statutes

Department to develop state plan, contents.

633.030. 1. The department shall prepare a state plan to securecoordinated mental retardation and developmental disabilities habilitationservices accessible to persons in need of them in defined geographic areas,which plan shall be reviewed and revised annually.

2. The state plan shall include, but not be limited to, the following:

(1) A needs-assessment of the state to determine underserved, unservedand inappropriately served populations and areas;

(2) Statements of short-term and long-term goals for meeting the needsof currently served, underserved, unserved or inappropriately servedpopulations and areas of the state;

(3) An inventory of existing private and public residential facilities,day programs and other service providers offering mental retardation ordevelopmental disability evaluation and habilitation services;

(4) Evaluations of the effects of habilitation programs;

(5) Descriptions of the following:

(a) Methods for assuring active consumer-oriented citizen participationthroughout the system;

(b) Strategies and procedures for encouraging, coordinating andintegrating community-based services, wherever practicable, to avoidduplication by private, not-for-profit and public state andcommunity-based providers of services;

(c) Methods for monitoring the quality of evaluation and habilitationservices funded by the state;

(d) Rules which set standards for construction, staffing, operations andprograms, as appropriate, for any public or private entity to meet forreceiving state licensing, certification or funding; and

(e) Plans for addressing the particular mental retardation anddevelopmental disability service needs of each region, including specialstrategies for rural and urban unserved, underserved or inappropriately servedpopulations in areas of the state.

3. In preparing the state plan, the department shall take intoconsideration its regional plans.

(L. 1980 H.B. 1724)