(a) A service planning and delivery process that is target population based and includes the following:
(1) Determination of the numbers of clients to be served and the programs and services that will be provided to meet their needs. The local director of mental health shall consult with the sheriff, the police chief, the probation officer, the mental health board, contract agencies, and family, client, ethnic, and citizen constituency groups as determined by the director.
(2) Plans for services, including outreach to families who have an adult child experiencing a serious mental health condition living with them, design of mental health services, coordination and access to medications, psychiatric and psychological services, substance use disorder services, supportive housing or other housing assistance, vocational rehabilitation, and veterans’ services. Plans also shall contain evaluation strategies that shall consider cultural, linguistic, gender, age, and special needs of minorities in the target populations. Provision shall be made for a workforce with the cultural background and linguistic skills necessary to remove barriers to mental health services due to limited-English-speaking ability and cultural differences. Recipients of outreach services may include families, the public, primary care physicians, and others who are likely to come into contact with individuals who may be experiencing an untreated severe mental illness who would be likely to become homeless if the illness continued to be untreated for a substantial period of time. Outreach to adults may include adults voluntarily or involuntarily hospitalized as a result of a severe mental illness.
(3) Provision for services to meet the needs of target population clients who are physically disabled.
(4) Provision for services to meet the special needs of older adults.
(5) Provision for family support and consultation services, parenting support and consultation services, and peer support or self-help group support, where appropriate for the individual.
(6) Provision for services to be client-directed and that employ psychosocial rehabilitation and recovery principles.
(7) Provision for psychiatric and psychological services that are integrated with other services and for psychiatric and psychological collaboration in overall service planning.
(8) Provision for services specifically directed to young adults 25 years of age or younger who have a serious mental illness and are homeless or at significant risk of becoming homeless. These provisions may include continuation of services that still would be received through other funds had eligibility not been terminated due to age.
(9) Services reflecting special needs of women from diverse cultural backgrounds, including supportive housing that accepts children, personal services coordinator therapeutic treatment, and substance treatment programs that address gender-specific trauma and abuse in the lives of persons with mental illness, and vocational rehabilitation programs that offer job training programs free of gender bias and sensitive to the needs of women.
(10) Provision for housing for clients that is immediate, transitional, permanent, or all of these.
(11) Provision for clients who have been experiencing an untreated severe mental illness for less than one year, and who do not require the full range of services but are at risk of becoming homeless unless a comprehensive individual and family support services plan is implemented. These clients shall be served in a manner that is designed to meet their needs.
(12) Provision for services for veterans.
