California Welfare and Institutions Code CHAPTER 1 - General Provisions

• Section 5600.
  (a) This part shall be known and may be cited as the Bronzan-McCorquodale Act. This part is intended to organize and finance community mental health services...
• Section 5600.1.
  The mission of California’s mental health system shall be to enable persons experiencing severe and disabling mental illnesses and children with serious emotional disturbances to...
• Section 5600.2.
  To the extent resources are available, public mental health services in this state should be provided to priority target populations in systems of care that...
• Section 5600.3.
  To the extent resources are available, the primary goal of the use of funds deposited in the mental health account of the local health and...
• Section 5600.35.
  (a) Services should be encouraged in every geographic area to the extent resources are available for clients in the target population categories described in Section 5600.3....
• Section 5600.4.
  Community mental health services should be organized to provide an array of treatment options in the following areas, to the extent resources are available:(a) Precrisis and...
• Section 5600.5.
  The minimum array of services for children and youth meeting the target population criteria established in subdivision (a) of Section 5600.3 should include the following...
• Section 5600.6.
  The minimum array of services for adults meeting the target population criteria established in subdivision (b) of Section 5600.3 should include the following modes of...
• Section 5600.7.
  The minimum array of services for older adults meeting the target population criteria established in subdivision (b) of Section 5600.3 should include the following modes...
• Section 5600.9.
  (a) Services to the target populations described in Section 5600.3 should be planned and delivered to the extent practicable so that persons in all ethnic groups...
• Section 5601.
  As used in this part:(a) “Governing body” means the county board of supervisors or boards of supervisors in the case of counties acting jointly; and in...
• Section 5602.
  The board of supervisors of every county, or the boards of supervisors of counties acting under the joint powers provisions of Article 1 (commencing with...
• Section 5604.
  (a) (1) Each community mental health service shall have a mental health board consisting of 10 to 15 members, depending on the preference of the county, appointed...
• Section 5604.1.
  Local mental health advisory boards shall be subject to the provisions of Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 54950) of Part 1 of Division 2 of...
• Section 5604.2.
  (a) The local mental health board shall do all of the following:(1) Review and evaluate the community’s mental health needs, services, facilities, and special problems.(2) Review any county...
• Section 5604.3.
  The board of supervisors may pay from any available funds the actual and necessary expenses of the members of the mental health board of a...
• Section 5604.5.
  The local mental health board shall develop bylaws to be approved by the governing body which shall:(a) Establish the specific number of members on the mental...
• Section 5607.
  The local mental health services shall be administered by a local director of mental health services to be appointed by the governing body. He or...
• Section 5608.
  The local director of mental health services shall have the following powers and duties:(a)  Serve as chief executive officer of the community mental health service...
• Section 5610.
  (a) Each county mental health system shall comply with reporting requirements developed by the State Department of Health Care Services, in consultation with the California Behavioral...
• Section 5611.
  (a) The Director of State Hospitals shall establish a Performance Outcome Committee, to be comprised of representatives from the Public Law 99-660 Planning Council and the...
• Section 5612.
  (a) (1) The Performance Outcome Committee shall develop measures of performance for evaluating client outcomes and cost effectiveness of mental health services provided pursuant to this division....
• Section 5613.
  (a) Counties shall annually report data on performance measures established pursuant to Section 5612 to the local mental health advisory board and to the Director of...
• Section 5614.
  (a) The department, in consultation with the Compliance Advisory Committee that shall have representatives from relevant stakeholders, including, but not limited to, local mental health departments,...
• Section 5614.5.
  (a) The department, in consultation with the Quality Improvement Committee which shall include representatives of the California Behavioral Health Planning Council, local mental health departments, consumers...
• Section 5615.
  If they so elect, cities that were operating independent public mental health programs on January 1, 1990, shall continue to receive direct payments.(Amended by Stats....
• Section 5616.
  Nothing in this part shall prevent any city or combination of cities from owning, financing, and operating a mental health program.(Amended by Stats. 1991, Ch....
• Section 5618.
  Mental health plans shall be responsible for providing information to potential clients, family members, and caregivers regarding specialty Medi-Cal mental health services offered by the...
• Section 5622.
  (a) A licensed inpatient mental health facility, as described in subdivision (c) of Section 1262 of the Health and Safety Code, operated by a county or...
• Section 5623.5.
  Commencing October 1, 1991, and to the extent resources are available, no county shall deny any person receiving services administered by the county mental health...

Last modified: October 22, 2018