BlackletterCalifornia law

PART 4. THE CHILDREN'S MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES ACT [5850. - 5886.]

Part 4 repealed and added by Stats. 1992, Ch. 1229, Sec. 2.

§§ 5850–5886 · 39 sections

  1. CHAPTER 1. Interagency System of Care §§ 5850–5878.3 · 33 sections
    1. ARTICLE 1. Legislative Findings and Intent §§ 5850–5851.5 · 3 sections
      • § 5850 This part shall be known and may be cited as the Children’s Mental Health Services Act.
      • § 5851 (a) The Legislature finds and declares that there is no comprehensive county interagency system throughout California for the delivery of mental health…
      • § 5851.5 For the purposes of this part, a “system of care county” means a county which has been approved by the State Department of Health Care Services as having the…
    2. ARTICLE 2. County Systems of Care and Their Mission §§ 5852–5855.5 · 6 sections
      • § 5852 There is hereby established an interagency system of care for children with serious emotional and behavioral disturbances that provides comprehensive,…
      • § 5852.5 The State Department of Health Care Services, in consultation with the Behavioral Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission, shall review those…
      • § 5853 County participation under this part shall be voluntary.
      • § 5854 The State Department of Health Care Services may contract with counties whose programs have been approved by the department and selected pursuant to Article 4…
      • § 5855 The State Department of Health Care Services shall adopt as part of its overall mission the development of community-based, comprehensive, interagency systems…
      • § 5855.5 (a) Projects funded pursuant to Part 4 (commencing with Section 5850) of Division 5, as added by Chapter 89 of the Statutes of 1991, shall continue under the…
    3. ARTICLE 3. Target Client Population §§ 5856–5856.2 · 2 sections
      • § 5856 For the purposes of this part, “children with serious emotional disturbance” means those minors under 18 years of age as described in paragraph (2) of…
      • § 5856.2 (a) An eligible child includes a child with serious emotional disturbance who meets the requirements of Section 5856 and who is referred by collaborating…
    4. ARTICLE 4. County Selection §§ 5857–5860 · 3 sections
      • § 5857 (a) The State Department of Mental Health shall issue a request for applications for funding for new children’s system of care programs to nonparticipating…
      • § 5859 If applications are deficient and not ready for approval, department program staff shall provide specific written descriptions of areas of deficiency to…
      • § 5860 (a) Final selection of county proposals shall be subject to the amount of funding approved for expansion of services under this part. (b) A county shall use…
    5. ARTICLE 5. County Proposal Components §§ 5861–5864 · 4 sections
      • § 5861 Proposals for a system of care may be submitted for a region by several smaller counties acting jointly, as independent countywide proposals, or proposals to…
      • § 5862 (a) Each county wishing to participate under this part shall develop a three-year program proposal for phasing in the children’s comprehensive mental health…
      • § 5863 In addition to the requirements of Section 5862, each county program proposal shall contain all of the following: (a) Methods and protocols for the county…
      • § 5864 Participating counties shall, prior to the submission of their program proposals, develop baseline data on children served by the county in the mental health…
    6. ARTICLE 6. County System of Care Requirements §§ 5865–5867.5 · 6 sections
      • § 5865 Each county shall have in place, with qualified mental health personnel, all of the following within three years of funding by the state: (a) A comprehensive,…
      • § 5865.1 When a county system of care serves children 15 to 21 years of age, the following structures and services shall, to the extent possible, be available, and if…
      • § 5865.3 When a county system of care services children, zero to five years of age, the following structures and services shall be available, and when not available,…
      • § 5866 (a) Counties shall develop a method to encourage interagency collaboration with shared responsibility for services and the client and cost outcome goals. (b)…
      • § 5867 Counties shall demonstrate a maintenance of effort in children’s mental health services. Any reduction of existing Bronzan-McCorquodale children’s services…
      • § 5867.5 Beginning in the 1998–99 fiscal year, county mental health departments that receive full system of care funding, as determined by the State Department of…
    7. ARTICLE 7. County Service Standards § 5868 · 1 section
      • § 5868 (a) The State Department of Health Care Services shall establish service standards so that children and youth in the target population are identified and…
    8. ARTICLE 8. State Department of Health Care Services Requirements § 5869 · 1 section
      • § 5869 The State Department of Health Care Services shall provide participating counties with all of the following: (a) Applications for funding guidelines and…
    9. ARTICLE 9. Requirement to Collect Reimbursements § 5872 · 1 section
      • § 5872 In order to offset the cost of services, participating counties shall collect reimbursement for services from the following sources: (a) Fees paid by families,…
    10. ARTICLE 10. Application for State Regulation Waivers §§ 5875–5878 · 3 sections
      • § 5875 The Secretary of California Health and Human Services shall require the State Department of Health Care Services to develop an administrative waiver process…
      • § 5877 (a) For system of care counties, or as part of the county program proposal to apply for status as a system of care county, requests may be made for waivers…
      • § 5878 (a) (1) The Secretary of California Health and Human Services, the Superintendent of Public Instruction, or the Secretary of the Department of Corrections and…
    11. ARTICLE 11. Services for Children with Severe Mental Illness §§ 5878.1–5878.3 · 3 sections
      • § 5878.1 (a) It is the intent of this article to establish programs that ensure services will be provided to eligible children and youth, as defined in Section 5892,…
      • § 5878.2 (a) For purposes of this article, “children with a serious emotional disturbance” means minors under 18 years of age who meet the criteria set forth in… see note
      • § 5878.3 (a) (1) (A) Counties shall use funds distributed pursuant to subdivision (c) of Section 5891 to offer services to eligible children and youth, as defined in of…
  2. CHAPTER 2. System Evaluation §§ 5879–5883 · 5 sections
    • § 5879 (a) It is the intent of the Legislature to increase the accountability of mental health and other human services programs whenever feasible by developing and…
    • § 5880 For each selected county the State Department of Health Care Services shall define and establish client and cost outcome and other system performance goals,…
    • § 5881 (a) Evaluation shall be conducted by participating county evaluation staff and, subject to the availability of funds, by the State Department of Health Care…
    • § 5882 (a) Participating counties shall assign sufficient resources to performance evaluation to enable the county to fulfill all evaluation responsibilities…
    • § 5883 (a) The department shall facilitate improved access to relevant client and financial data from all state agencies, including, but not limited to, the State…
  3. CHAPTER 3. Mental Health Student Services Act § 5886 · 1 section
    • § 5886 (a) The Behavioral Health Student Services Act is hereby established as a mental health partnership grant program for the purpose of establishing mental health…