Sec. 533.0354. DISEASE MANAGEMENT PRACTICES AND JAIL DIVERSION MEASURES OF LOCAL MENTAL HEALTH AUTHORITIES

(a) A local mental health authority shall ensure the provision of assessment services, crisis services, and intensive and comprehensive services using disease management practices for adults with bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, or clinically severe depression and for children with serious emotional illnesses. The local mental health authority shall ensure that individuals are engaged with treatment services that are:

(1) ongoing and matched to the needs of the individual in type, duration, and intensity;

(2) focused on a process of recovery designed to allow the individual to progress through levels of service;

(3) guided by evidence-based protocols and a strength-based paradigm of service; and

(4) monitored by a system that holds the local authority accountable for specific outcomes, while allowing flexibility to maximize local resources.

(b) The department shall require each local mental health authority to incorporate jail diversion strategies into the authority's disease management practices for managing adults with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder to reduce the involvement of those client populations with the criminal justice system.

(c) The department shall enter into performance contracts between the department and each local mental health authority for the fiscal years ending August 31, 2004, and August 31, 2005, that specify measurable outcomes related to their success in using disease management practices to meet the needs of the target populations.

(d) Repealed by Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 1083, Sec. 25(93), eff. June 17, 2011.

(e) The department may use the fiscal year ending August 31, 2004, as a transition period for implementing the requirements of Subsections (a)-(c).

Added by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 198, Sec. 2.75, eff. Sept. 1, 2003. Amended by: Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 1083 , Sec. 25(93), eff. June 17, 2011.