631.030. Department to develop state plan, contents.
Department to develop state plan, contents.
631.030. 1. The department shall prepare a state plan to securecoordinated alcohol and drug abuse prevention, treatment and rehabilitationservices 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 not be limited to, the following:
(1) A needs-assessment of the state to determine underserved, unservedand inappropriately served populations and areas;
(2) Statements of short-term and long-term goals for meeting the needsof the currently served, unserved, underserved or inappropriately servedpopulations and areas of the state;
(3) An inventory of existing private and public residential facilities,clinics and other service providers offering drug or alcohol abuse services;
(4) Evaluations of the effects of care and treatment programs;
(5) Descriptions of the following:
(a) Methods for assuring active, consumer-oriented citizen participationthroughout the system;
(b) Strategies and procedures for encouraging, coordinating andintegrating community-based services wherever practicable to avoid duplicationby private, not-for-profit and public state and community-based providers ofservices;
(c) Methods for monitoring the quality of prevention, evaluation, care,treatment and rehabilitation services funded by the state;
(d) Rules which set standards of construction, staffing, operations andprograms, as appropriate, for any public or private entity to meet beforereceiving state certification; and
(e) Plans for addressing the particular alcohol and drug abuse serviceneeds of each region including special strategies for rural and urbanunserved, underserved or inappropriately served populations and areas of thestate.
3. In preparing the state plan, the department shall take intoconsideration its regional plans.
(L. 1980 H.B. 1724)