Effective - 28 Aug 2006
633.032. Mental health department to develop a plan for the needs of persons on waitlist for services — report required, made to whom, when. — 1. The department of mental health shall develop a plan to address the needs of persons who are on a waitlist for services, including persons in habilitation centers waiting for community placement. Such plan shall reflect the partnership between persons with developmental disabilities and their families, community providers, and state officials, and shall support the choice and control of consumers and their families in the delivery of services and supports. Such plan shall include the following:
(1) A method to reduce the waitlist for services over a period of five years and to reduce the waiting period to ninety days;
(2) A description of minimum supports and services available to all eligible individuals and their families;
(3) An evaluation of the capacity of current providers to serve more individuals;
(4) A method of adjusting support and service levels based on the needs of the eligible individual combined with family or other relevant circumstances affecting the support of such individual;
(5) A method for determining the circumstances when out-of-home twenty-four-hour care may be necessary;
(6) A description of how the plan will be implemented on a statewide basis;
(7) Any changes in state law that will be required to implement the plan; and
(8) An analysis of the budgetary and programmatic effects of providing supports and services for all eligible individuals and their families.
2. The plan required pursuant to this section shall be completed on or before November first each year beginning November 1, 2007. The director of the department of mental health shall annually submit a copy of the plan to the speaker of the house of representatives, the president pro tem of the senate, and the governor.
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(L. 2003 H.B. 59 & 269 merged with S.B. 266, A.L. 2006 S.B. 974)
Structure Missouri Revised Statutes
Title XL - Additional Executive Departments
Chapter 633 - Intellectual Disabilities and Developmental Disabilities
Section 633.005 - Definitions.
Section 633.010 - Responsibilities, powers, functions and duties of division.
Section 633.015 - Division director to be chief administrative officer.
Section 633.025 - Services to be provided.
Section 633.027 - Developmentally disabled persons to be served.
Section 633.029 - Definition to determine status of eligibility.
Section 633.030 - Department to develop state plan, contents.
Section 633.035 - Department director to establish regions.
Section 633.045 - Duties of regional advisory councils — plans.
Section 633.050 - Regional councils to review, advise and recommend — duties.
Section 633.100 - Department to establish regional centers.
Section 633.105 - Regional centers to secure services.
Section 633.110 - What services may be provided — consent required, when.
Section 633.115 - Entities to be used by regional centers.
Section 633.130 - Evaluation of residents required — discharge thereafter.
Section 633.140 - Return of absentee, procedure.
Section 633.145 - Transfer of patient between facilities by department — notice, consent.
Section 633.155 - Admission for respite care for limited time only.
Section 633.160 - Emergency admission may be made, duration, conditions.
Section 633.170 - Definitions.
Section 633.175 - Community awareness program — administration of family support program.
Section 633.190 - Promulgation of rules.
Section 633.210 - Office of autism services established, duties — autism spectrum disorder defined.
Section 633.303 - Termination of workers on disqualification registry.
Section 633.309 - No transfer to homes or facilities with noncompliance notices.