Missouri Revised Statutes § 632.030 - Department to develop state plan, contents
The department must prepare a state plan for coordinated mental health services and review and revise it every year.
632.030. Department to develop state plan, contents. — 1. The department shall prepare a state plan to secure coordinated prevention, evaluation, care, treatment and rehabilitation services 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 need not be limited to, the following: (1) A needs-assessment of the state to determine underserved, unserved and inappropriately served populations and areas; (2) Statements of short-term and long-term goals for meeting the needs of the currently served, unserved, underserved or inappropriately served populations and areas of the state; (3) An inventory of existing private or community-based public residential facilities, clinics, day programs and other specialized service providers offering mental disorder or mental illness services; (4) Evaluations of the effects of prevention, evaluation, care, treatment and rehabilitation programs; (5) Descriptions of the following: (a) Methods for assuring active, consumer-oriented citizen participation throughout the system; (b) Strategies and procedures for encouraging, coordinating and integrating community-based services wherever practicable to avoid duplication by private, not-for-profit and public state and community-based providers of services; (c) Methods for monitoring the quality of prevention, evaluation, care, treatment and rehabilitation services funded by the state; (d) Rules which set standards for construction, staffing, operations and programs, as appropriate, for any public or private entity to meet before receiving state licensing, certification or funding; and (e) Plans for addressing the particular mental disorder and mental illness service needs of each region, including special strategies for rural and urban unserved, underserved or inappropriately served populations and areas of the state. 3. In preparing the state plan, the department shall take into consideration its regional plans. (L. 1980 H.B. 1724)