37.2-315 - Comprehensive State Plan for Behavioral Health and Developmental Services. - Virginia Statutes

§ 37.2-315. Comprehensive State Plan for Behavioral Health and DevelopmentalServices.

The Department, in consultation with community services boards, behavioralhealth authorities, state hospitals and training centers, consumers,consumers' families, advocacy organizations, and other interested parties,shall develop and update biennially a six-year Comprehensive State Plan forBehavioral Health and Developmental Services. The Comprehensive State Planshall identify the needs of and the resource requirements for providingservices and supports to persons with mental illness, mental retardation, orsubstance abuse across the Commonwealth and shall propose strategies toaddress these needs. The Comprehensive State Plan shall be used in thedevelopment of the Department's biennial budget submission to the Governor.

(1998, c. 680, § 37.1-48.1; 2005, c. 716.)