RCW 71.24.135
Expanded recovery support services program—Regional expanded recovery plans.
(1) Subject to the availability of amounts appropriated for this specific purpose, the authority shall establish the expanded recovery support services program to increase access to recovery services for individuals in recovery from substance use disorder.
(2) In establishing the program, the authority shall consult with the substance use recovery services advisory committee established in RCW 71.24.546, behavioral health administrative services organizations, regional behavioral health providers, and regional community organizations that support individuals in recovery from substance use disorders, including individuals with co-occurring substance use disorders and mental health conditions, to adopt regional expanded recovery plans that are consistent with the substance use recovery services plan developed under RCW 71.24.546 to provide sufficient access for youth and adults to meet each region's needs for:
(a) Recovery housing;
(b) Employment pathways, support, training, and job placement, including evidence-based supported employment program services;
(c) Education pathways, including recovery high schools and collegiate recovery programs;
(d) Recovery coaching and substance use disorder peer support;
(e) Social connectedness initiatives, including the recovery café model;
(f) Family support services, including family reconciliation services;
(g) Technology-based recovery support services;
(h) Transportation assistance; and
(i) Legal support services.
(3) Funds in the expanded recovery support services program must be used to reimburse providers for the provision of services to individuals in recovery from substance use disorders, including individuals with co-occurring substance use disorders and mental health conditions. In addition, the funds may be used to provide assistance to organizations to establish or expand recovery support services as reasonably necessary and feasible to increase the availability of services to achieve the regional expanded recovery plans developed under subsection (2) of this section, including such items as training and recruitment of personnel, reasonable modifications to existing facilities to accommodate additional clients, and similar forms of assistance.
(4) The authority must establish regional expanded recovery plans under subsection (2) of this section, subject to the availability of amounts appropriated for this specific purpose, by January 1, 2023, and begin distributing grant funds by March 1, 2023.
[ 2021 c 311 § 4.]
NOTES:
Effective date—2021 c 311 §§ 1-11 and 13-21: See note following RCW 71.24.115.
Structure Revised Code of Washington
Chapter 71.24 - Community Behavioral Health Services Act.
71.24.015 - Legislative intent—Community behavioral health system.
71.24.030 - Grants, purchasing of services, for community behavioral health programs.
71.24.035 - Director's powers and duties as state behavioral health authority.
71.24.045 - Behavioral health administrative services organization powers and duties.
71.24.062 - Psychiatry consultation line—Implementation.
71.24.063 - Partnership access lines—Psychiatric consultation lines—Data collection.
71.24.064 - Partnership access lines—Psychiatric consultation lines—Funding—Performance measures.
71.24.067 - Partnership access lines—Psychiatric consultation lines—Review.
71.24.068 - Telebehavioral health access account.
71.24.115 - Recovery navigator programs—Reports.
71.24.125 - Grant program—Treatment services—Regional access standards.
71.24.135 - Expanded recovery support services program—Regional expanded recovery plans.
71.24.160 - Proof as to uses made of state funds—Use of maintenance of effort funds.
71.24.200 - Expenditures of county funds subject to county fiscal laws.
71.24.215 - Sliding-scale fee schedules for clients receiving behavioral health services.
71.24.220 - State grants may be withheld for noncompliance with chapter or related rules.
71.24.250 - Behavioral health administrative services organizations—Receipt of gifts and grants.
71.24.260 - Waiver of postgraduate educational requirements—Mental health professionals.
71.24.350 - Behavioral health ombuds office.
71.24.370 - Behavioral health services contracts—Limitation on state liability.
71.24.380 - Purchase of behavioral health services—Managed care contracting—Requirements.
71.24.383 - Managed care organization contracting—Requirements.
71.24.400 - Streamlining delivery system—Finding.
71.24.405 - Streamlining delivery system.
71.24.415 - Streamlining delivery system—Authority duties to achieve outcomes.
71.24.430 - Coordination of services for behavioral health clients—Collaborative service delivery.
71.24.435 - Behavioral health system—Improvement strategy.
71.24.450 - Offenders with mental illnesses—Findings and intent.
71.24.455 - Offenders with mental illnesses—Contracts for specialized access and services.
71.24.460 - Offenders with mental illnesses—Report to legislature.
71.24.510 - Integrated comprehensive screening and assessment process—Implementation.
71.24.520 - Substance use disorder program authority.
71.24.525 - Agreements authorized under the interlocal cooperation act.
71.24.530 - Local funding and donative funding requirements—Facilities, plans, programs.
71.24.535 - Duties of authority.
71.24.545 - Comprehensive program for treatment—Regional facilities.
71.24.555 - Liquor taxes and profits—City and county eligibility conditioned.
71.24.560 - Opioid treatment programs—Pregnant individuals—Information and education.
71.24.565 - Acceptance for approved treatment—Rules.
71.24.570 - Emergency service patrol—Establishment—Rules.
71.24.575 - Criminal laws limitations.
71.24.580 - Criminal justice treatment account.
71.24.585 - Opioid and substance use disorder treatment—State response.
71.24.589 - Substance use disorders—Law enforcement assisted diversion—Pilot project.
71.24.594 - Opioid overdose reversal medications—Education—Distribution—Labeling—Liability.
71.24.597 - Opioid overdose reversal medication—Coordinated purchasing and distribution.
71.24.598 - Drug overdose response team.
71.24.599 - Opioid use disorder—City and county jails—Funding.
71.24.605 - Fetal alcohol screening and assessment services.
71.24.610 - Interagency agreement on fetal alcohol exposure programs.
71.24.615 - Chemical dependency treatment expenditures—Prioritization.
71.24.625 - Uniform application of chapter—Training for designated crisis responders.
71.24.640 - Standards for certification or licensure of evaluation and treatment facilities.
71.24.645 - Standards for certification or licensure of crisis stabilization units.
71.24.647 - Standards for certification or licensure of triage facilities.
71.24.649 - Standards for certification or licensure of mental health peer-run respite centers.
71.24.650 - Standards for certification or licensure of a clubhouse.
71.24.660 - Recovery residences—Referrals by licensed or certified service providers.
71.24.710 - Reentry services—Work group.
71.24.715 - Reentry services—Waiver application.
71.24.720 - Less restrictive alternative treatment—Transition teams.
71.24.850 - Regional service areas—Report—Managed care integration.
71.24.855 - Finding—Intent—State hospitals.
71.24.861 - Behavioral health system coordination committee.
71.24.870 - Behavioral health services—Adoption of rules—Audit.
71.24.885 - Medicaid rate increases—Review authority—Reporting.
71.24.893 - National 988 system—Crisis response improvement strategy steering committee.
71.24.894 - National 988 system—Department reporting—Audit.
71.24.896 - National 988 system—Duties owed to public—Independent contractors.
71.24.898 - National 988 system—Technical and operational plan.