225C.53 - ROLE OF DEPARTMENT AND DIVISION -- TRANSITION TO ADULT SYSTEM.
225C.53 ROLE OF DEPARTMENT AND DIVISION -- TRANSITION
TO ADULT SYSTEM.
1. The department is the lead agency responsible for the
development, implementation, oversight, and management of the mental
health services system for children and youth in accordance with this
chapter. The department's responsibilities shall be fulfilled by the
division.
2. The division's responsibilities relating to the children's
system include but are not limited to all of the following:
a. Ensuring that the rules adopted for the children's system
provide that, within the limits of appropriations for the children's
system, children and youth shall not be inappropriately denied
necessary mental health services.
b. Establishing standards for the provision of home and
community-based mental health treatment, services, and other support
under the children's system.
c. Identifying and implementing eligibility criteria for the
treatment, services, and other support available under the children's
system.
d. Ongoing implementation of recommendations identified
through children's system improvement efforts.
3. An adult person who met the criteria for having a serious
emotional disturbance prior to the age of eighteen may qualify to
continue services through the adult mental health system. Section History: Recent Form
2008 Acts, ch 1187, §55