Michigan Compiled Laws
258-1974-1 - Chapter 1 Department of Mental Health (330.1100...330.1172.added)
Section 330.1161 - Annual Evaluation of Program.

Sec. 161.
In conjunction with community mental health services programs, the department must conduct annually and forward to the governor and the house of representatives and senate appropriations committees, and the senate and house of representatives committees with legislative oversight of human services and mental health, an evaluation of the family support subsidy program that shall include, but is not limited to, all of the following:
(a) The impact of the family support subsidy program upon children covered by this act in facilities and residential care programs including, to the extent possible, sample case reviews of families who choose not to participate.
(b) Case reviews of families who voluntarily terminate participation in the family support subsidy program for any reason, particularly if the eligible minor is placed out of the family home, including the involvement of the department and community mental health services programs in offering suitable alternatives.
(c) Sample assessments of families receiving family support subsidy payments including adequacy of subsidy and need for services not available.
(d) The efforts to encourage program participation of eligible families.
(e) The geographic distribution of families receiving subsidy payments and, to the extent possible, eligible minors presumed to be eligible for family support subsidy payments.
(f) Programmatic and legislative recommendations to further assist families in providing care for eligible minors.
(g) Problems that arise in identifying eligible minors through diagnostic evaluations performed under rules promulgated by the department of education.
(h) The number of beds reduced in state facilities and foster care facilities serving severely mentally, multiply, and autistic impaired children when the children return home to their natural families as a result of the family support subsidy program.
(i) Caseload figures by eligibility category as described in section 100a(29).
History: Add. 1983, Act 249, Imd. Eff. Dec. 15, 1983 ;-- Am. 1995, Act 290, Eff. Mar. 28, 1996 ;-- Am. 1998, Act 497, Eff. Mar. 1, 1999 ;-- Am. 2004, Act 499, Eff. Mar. 30, 2005 ;-- Am. 2012, Act 500, Imd. Eff. Dec. 28, 2012 ;-- Am. 2020, Act 402, Eff. Mar. 24, 2021 Compiler's Notes: Section 2 of Act 249 of 1983 provides: “This amendatory act shall take effect January 1, 1984, for the purpose of promulgating rules pursuant to section 157, and July 1, 1984, for the purpose of accepting written application.

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