CHAPTER 85

H.P. 1060 - L.D. 1515

Resolve, To Establish a Responsive, Community-based,

Cost-effective and Comprehensive Adult Mental Health System

Sec. 1. AMHI Consent Decree Plan and system transformation plan. Resolved: That the Department of Health and Human Services shall ensure that the plan presented for court approval to achieve compliance with the Augusta Mental Health Institute Consent Decree Plan and that the system transformation plan as referenced in Public Law 2005, chapter 12, Part XXX are consumer-directed, community-based and comprehensive. Any plan development must be done in collaboration with a working group inclusive of consumers, families, providers and advocates. The plan must address, at a minimum, service delivery structures, service options, financing of those services, quality assurance and quality improvement strategies to be reflected as part of the management of the system. The plan must also address the development of a local system to ensure continuity of care and to identify utilization management strategies for all components of the mental health system as referenced in section 3; and be it further

Sec. 2. System values and standards. Resolved: That the system for adult mental health services must be based on those values and standards already adopted by this State so that:

1. All services and support promote recovery and resiliency;

2. Planning and services are consumer-driven, holistic, flexible and strength-based;