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(b) Community mental health program service delivery principles include the principles that persons (1) have ready and prompt access to necessary screening, diagnosis, and treatment; (2) receiving community mental health services be informed of their rights, including their rights to confidentiality and to treatment with dignity; (3) be provided community mental health services by staff and programs that reflect the culture, linguistic, and other social characteristics of their community and that incorporate multidisciplinary professional staff to meet client functional levels and diagnostic and treatment needs; (4) in need of community mental health services, and their families, be encouraged to participate in formulating, delivering, and evaluating treatment and rehabilitation; (5) in need of community mental health services be provided treatment and rehabilitation services designed to minimize institutionalization and maximize individual potential; (6) be treated in the least restrictive alternative environment consistent with their treatment needs, enabling the person to live as normally as possible; (7) be provided necessary treatment as close to the person's home as possible; (8) be informed of and allowed to participate in planning their own treatment as much as possible. Sec. 47.30.530. Duties of department. (a) The department shall administer the provisions of AS 47.30.520 — 47.30.620 and shall (1) define and develop standards for various levels and qualities of mental health care; (2) provide fiscal and professional technical assistance in planning, organizing, developing, implementing, and administering local mental health services; (3) develop budgets and receive and distribute state appropriations and funds in accordance with the provisions of AS 47.30.520 — 47.30.620; (4) establish standards of education and experience for professional, technical, and administrative personnel employed in community mental health services; (5) assist the community in establishing the organization and operation of community mental health services; (6) develop a standardized system for measuring and reporting to the department the types, quantities, and quality of services; and develop a cost accounting system that will demonstrate the cost of various levels and qualities of care; (7) provide each local community planning and services delivery entity with statistics, reports, and other data relevant to development of indices indicating the need for mental health services, or relevant to evaluating the effectiveness of existing services;