Revised Code of Washington - RCW Title 71 Mental Illness - Chapter 71.24 Community Mental Health Services Act

71.24.011 Short title
This chapter may be known and cited as the community mental health services act.[1982 c 204 § 1.] ...

71.24.015 Legislative intent and policy
It is the intent of the legislature to establish a community mental health program which shall help people experiencing mental illness to retain a respected ...

71.24.016 Intent -- Regional support networks programs
(1) The legislature intends that eastern and western state hospitals shall operate as clinical centers for handling the most complicated long-term care needs of patients ...

71.24.025 Definitions
Unless the context clearly requires otherwise, the definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter. (1) "Acutely mentally ill" means a condition which is limited ...

71.24.030 Grants, purchasing of services, for community mental health programs
The secretary is authorized to make grants and/or purchase services from counties, combinations of counties, or other entities, to establish and operate community mental health ...

71.24.035 Secretary's powers and duties as state mental health authority--Secretary designated as regional support network, when
(1) The department is designated as the state mental health authority. (2) The secretary shall provide for public, client, and licensed service provider participation in ...

71.24.037 Licensed service providers, residential services, community support services -- Minimum standards
(1) The secretary shall by rule establish state minimum standards for licensed service providers and services. (2) Minimum standards for licensed service providers shall, at ...

71.24.045 Regional support network powers and duties
The regional support network shall: (1) Contract as needed with licensed service providers. The regional support network may, in the absence of a licensed service ...

71.24.049 Identification by regional support network -- Children's mental health services
By January 1st of each odd-numbered year, the regional support network shall identify: (1) The number of children in each priority group, as defined by ...

71.24.055 Regional support network services -- Children's access to care standards and benefit package -- Recommendations to legislature
As part of the system transformation initiative, the department of social and health services shall undertake the following activities related specifically to children's mental health ...

71.24.061 Children's mental health providers -- Children's mental health evidence-based practice institute -- Pilot program
(1) The department shall provide flexibility in provider contracting to regional support networks for children's mental health services. Beginning with 2007-2009 biennium contracts, regional support ...

71.24.065 Wraparound model of integrated children's mental health services delivery -- Contracts -- Evaluation -- Report
To the extent funds are specifically appropriated for this purpose, the department of social and health services shall contract for implementation of a wraparound model ...

71.24.100 Joint agreements of county authorities -- Required provisions
A county authority or a group of county authorities may enter into a joint operating agreement to form a regional support network. Any agreement between ...

71.24.110 Joint agreements of county authorities -- Permissive provisions
An agreement for the establishment of a community mental health program under RCW 71.24.100 may also provide: (1) For the joint supervision or operation of ...

71.24.155 Grants to regional support networks -- Accounting
Grants shall be made by the department to regional support networks for community mental health programs totaling not less than ninety-five percent of available resources. ...

71.24.160 Proof as to uses made of state funds
The regional support networks shall make satisfactory showing to the secretary that state funds shall in no case be used to replace local funds from ...

71.24.200 Expenditures of county funds subject to county fiscal laws
Expenditures of county funds under this chapter shall be subject to the provisions of chapter 36.40 RCW and other statutes relating to expenditures by counties.[1967 ...

71.24.215 Clients to be charged for services
Clients receiving mental health services funded by available resources shall be charged a fee under sliding-scale fee schedules, based on ability to pay, approved by ...

71.24.220 Reimbursement may be withheld for noncompliance with chapter or related rules
The secretary may withhold state grants in whole or in part for any community mental health program in the event of a failure to comply ...

71.24.240 County program plans to be approved by secretary prior to submittal to federal agency
In order to establish eligibility for funding under this chapter, any regional support network seeking to obtain federal funds for the support of any aspect ...

71.24.250 Regional support network may accept and expend gifts and grants
The regional support network may accept and expend gifts and grants received from private, county, state, and federal sources.[2001 c 323 § 16; 1982 c ...

71.24.260 Waiver of postgraduate educational requirements
The department shall waive postgraduate educational requirements applicable to mental health professionals under this chapter for those persons who have a bachelor's degree and on ...

71.24.300 Regional support networks -- Inclusion of tribal authorities--Roles and responsibilities
(1) Upon the request of a tribal authority or authorities within a regional support network the joint operating agreement or the county authority shall allow ...

71.24.310 Administration of chapters 71.05 and 71.24 RCW through regional support networks -- Implementation of chapter 71.05 RCW
The legislature finds that administration of chapter 71.05 RCW and this chapter can be most efficiently and effectively implemented as part of the regional support ...

71.24.320 Regional support networks--Procurement process--Penalty for voluntary termination or refusal to renew contract
(1) If an existing regional support network chooses not to respond to a request for qualifications, or is unable to substantially meet the requirements of ...

71.24.330 Regional support networks--Contracts with department -- Requirements
(1) Contracts between a regional support network and the department shall include mechanisms for monitoring performance under the contract and remedies for failure to substantially ...

71.24.340 Regional support networks--Eligibility for medical assistance upon release from confinement--Interlocal agreements
The secretary shall require the regional support networks to develop interlocal agreements pursuant to RCW 74.09.555. To this end, the regional support networks shall accept ...

71.24.350 Mental health ombudsman office
The department shall require each regional support network to provide for a separately funded mental health ombudsman office in each regional support network that is ...

71.24.360 Establishment of new regional support networks
The department may establish new regional support network boundaries in any part of the state where more than one network chooses not to respond to, ...

71.24.370 Regional support networks contracts -- Limitation on state liability
(1) Except for monetary damage claims which have been reduced to final judgment by a superior court, this section applies to all claims against the ...

71.24.400 Streamlining delivery system -- Finding
The legislature finds that the current complex set of federal, state, and local rules and regulations, audited and administered at multiple levels, which affect the ...

71.24.405 Streamlining delivery system
The department shall establish a comprehensive and collaborative effort within regional support networks and with local mental health service providers aimed at creating innovative and ...

71.24.415 Streamlining delivery system -- Department duties to achieve outcomes
To carry out the purposes specified in RCW 71.24.400, the department is encouraged to utilize its authority to eliminate any unnecessary rules, regulations, standards, or ...

71.24.420 Expenditure of federal funds
The department shall operate the community mental health service delivery system authorized under this chapter within the following constraints: (1) The full amount of federal ...

71.24.430 Collaborative service delivery
(1) The department shall ensure the coordination of allied services for mental health clients. The department shall implement strategies for resolving organizational, regulatory, and funding ...

71.24.450 Mentally ill offenders -- Findings and intent
(1) Many acute and chronically mentally ill offenders are delayed in their release from Washington correctional facilities due to their inability to access reasonable treatment ...

71.24.455 Mentally ill offenders -- Contracts for specialized access and services
(1) The secretary shall select and contract with a regional support network or private provider to provide specialized access and services to mentally ill offenders ...

71.24.460 Mentally ill offenders -- Report to legislature -- Contingent termination of program
The department, in collaboration with the department of corrections and the oversight committee created in RCW 71.24.455, shall track outcomes and submit to the legislature ...

71.24.470 Dangerous mentally ill offenders -- Contract for case management -- Use of appropriated funds
(1) The secretary shall contract, to the extent that funds are appropriated for this purpose, for case management services and such other services as the ...

71.24.480 Dangerous mentally ill offenders -- Limitation on liability due to treatment -- Reporting requirements
(1) A licensed service provider or regional support network, acting in the course of the provider's or network's duties under this chapter, is not liable ...

71.24.805 Mental health system review -- Performance audit recommendations affirmed
The legislature affirms its support for those recommendations of the performance audit of the public mental health system conducted by the joint legislative audit and ...

71.24.810 Mental health system review -- Implementation of performance audit recommendations
The legislature supports recommendations 1 through 10 and 12 through 14 of the mental health system performance audit conducted by the joint legislative audit and ...

71.24.840 Mental health system review -- Study of long-term outcomes
The Washington institute for public policy shall conduct a longitudinal study of long-term client outcomes to assess any changes in client status at two, five, ...

71.24.900 Effective date -- 1967 ex.s. c 111
This act shall take effect on July 1, 1967.[1967 ex.s. c 111 § 26.] ...

71.24.901 Severability -- 1982 c 204
If any provision of this act or its application to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the remainder of the act or the application ...

71.24.902 Construction
Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as prohibiting the secretary from consolidating within the department children's mental health services with other departmental services related ...