PUBLIC LAW 96-398—OCT. 7, 1980
94 STAT. 1587
(i) to continue the provision of appropriate services which have been provided by local entities in the State with financial assistance under the Community Mental Health Centers Act and this Act and for which Federal financial assistance is no longer available; (ii) to promote the development of comprehensive mental health services in each mental health service area where such services are currently unavailable; (iii) to ensure substantially that, within a five-year period after the program is in effect in the State (or within such longer period as the Secretary, upon request of the State mental health authority, permits)— (I) residents of public inpatient mental health facilities who have been inappropriately placed in such facilities are discharged, and, to the extent appropriate, are placed in the least-restrictive settings and provided mental health and related support services appropriate to such persons' level of functioning; (II) persons who need to be placed in inpatient mental health facilities are placed in the leastrestrictive settings and provided mental health and related support services appropriate to such persons' level of functioning; and (III) persons who are discharged from, or are in need of placement in, inpatient mental health facilities are informed of available community-based facilities and programs providing mental health and related support services, and provided access to a sufficient number of adequately staffed and adequately funded community-based facilities and programs providing mental health and related support services; and (iv) to assist the courts and other public agencies, and appropriate private agencies, in screening persons being considered for inpatient care in mental health facilities in the State in order to determine if such care is medically or psychologically indicated; (K) include a description of the services made available for mentally ill individuals in the State under titles IV, V, XVI, XVIII, XIX, and XX of the Social Security Act and under the Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975, the Older Americans Act, the Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act, the Comprehensive Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Prevention, Treatment, and Rehabilitation Act of 1970, the Drug Abuse Prevention, Treatment, and Rehabilitation Act, and other relevant Federal statutes; (L) describe the steps being taken in the State to coordinate the provision of services under this Act with the provision of services under the Acts referred to in subparagraph (K); and (M) contain or be accompanied by such additional information or assurances and meet such other requirements as the Secretary prescribes in order to achieve the purposes of this Act.
42 USC 2689 note.
Placement and discharge.
Facilities and programs, information and
Screening.
Service description. 42 USC 601, 701, 1381, 1395, 1396, 1397. 20 USC 1401 note. 42 USC 3001 note. 42 USC 6001 note. 42 USC 4541 note. 21 USC 1101 note. Service coordination.
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