4030-4033
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.