K.A.R. 30-60-18

Article 60 — Licensing of Community Mental Health Centers: 30-60-18 Coordination and community involvement.

This regulation requires each licensed Community Mental Health Center (CMHC) in Kansas to establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with a broad range of local public and private agencies to facilitate service coordination and consumer referrals. Centers must coordinate with entities including social services, public health agencies, hospitals, developmental disability organizations, substance abuse treatment agencies, schools, law enforcement, courts, juvenile justice agencies, housing authorities, and others. The regulation governs the coordination obligations of CMHCs, not the licensing or operating standards of the other agencies mentioned.

Kansas Administrative Regulations

Kansas Department for Children and Families

Article 60.—Licensing of Community Mental Health Centers

30-60-18. Coordination and community involvement.

Each center, in order to facilitate the coordination of services between itself and other agencies and the referral of consumers, both to the center by others and by the center to other providers of services, shall establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with those local public and private agencies who are also likely to provide services to consumers, including the following:

(a) The department of social and rehabilitation services local area office and any applicable divisions or contractors of the department;

(b) public health agencies, public and private hospitals and clinics, other health care providers, and providers of specialized mental health services, including private mental health treatment facilities, nursing facilities for mental health, and residential care facilities for the mentally ill;

(c) community developmental disability organizations and community mental retardation and developmental disabilities service providers;

(d) the local regional alcohol and drug abuse assessment center and other treatment agencies for alcohol or substance abuse;

(e) public and private schools and other education agencies;

(f) law enforcement agencies, including jails and other adult detention facilities;

(g) the district court for each county within the service area of the center;

(h) juvenile justice agencies, including juvenile detention facilities;

(i) public housing authorities;

(j) area agencies on aging;

(k) employment service agencies;

(l) homeless shelters; and

(m) agencies run by or specifically oriented to consumers.

(Authorized by K.S.A. 
75-3307b
; implementing K.S.A. 
39-1603
, 
39-1604
(d), 
39-1608
(a) and (c), 
65-4434
(f), and 
75-3304a
; effective Oct. 28, 1991; amended July 7, 2003.)

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