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Texas Statutes (Last Updated: January 4, 2014) |
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GOVERNMENT CODE |
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Title 4. EXECUTIVE BRANCH |
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Subtitle I. HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES |
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Chapter 531. HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES COMMISSION |
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Subchapter G-1. DEVELOPING LOCAL MENTAL HEALTH CARE SYSTEMS FOR CERTAIN CHILDREN |
Sec. 531.255. EVALUATION
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(a) The commission and the Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation jointly shall monitor the progress of the expansion communities.
(b) The commission, the consortium, and the expansion communities shall collaborate to develop a system to evaluate the success of the expansion communities in achieving outcome goals for the minors the communities serve, including outcome goals developed under Section 531.252. An evaluation under the system must include information on cost avoidance and net savings that result from participation in the initiative.
(c) Each expansion community shall identify the baseline information to compare with the information on outcomes in evaluating the achievements of the community. A community is responsible for collecting and reporting outcome information to the commission in accordance with the requirements of the evaluation system developed under Subsection (b).
(d) To the extent practicable, an expansion community shall use instruments to measure outcomes that have known reliability and validity and that allow comparisons with similar projects in other states and with national evaluation efforts.