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AK Stat § 47.30.477 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 47. Welfare, Social Services, and Institutions|Chapter 30. Mental Health|Article 4. Alcoholism and Drug Abuse.|Sec. 47.30.477. Grant-in-aid program regulations.

The department shall adopt regulations implementing AS 47.30.475. The regulations must provide for the method of application, the time for consideration of applications, the processing of applications, the type of record keeping, the requirements for reporting the progress and statistics regarding the program, and the notification of the applicant as to the action taken on the application. The department shall also establish the necessary forms of application and may adopt other regulations considered necessary to meet the requirements of health and safety and the orderly administration of the grant-in-aid program. The regulations must include reporting requirements that will permit an evaluation of the success of the program.
AK Stat § 47.30.480 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 47. Welfare, Social Services, and Institutions|Chapter 30. Mental Health|Article 4. Alcoholism and Drug Abuse.|Sec. 47.30.480. Judicial notice.

The superior courts of this state may take judicial notice of the fact that an alcoholic is suffering from an illness and is in need of proper medical, advisory, or rehabilitative treatment.
AK Stat § 47.30.490 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 47. Welfare, Social Services, and Institutions|Chapter 30. Mental Health|Article 4. Alcoholism and Drug Abuse.|Sec. 47.30.490. Acceptance of funds.

The department may accept on behalf of the state and deposit, apart from other public funds, grants from the federal government or gifts or contributions from other sources to assist in carrying out the purposes of AS 47.30.470.
AK Stat § 47.30.500 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 47. Welfare, Social Services, and Institutions|Chapter 30. Mental Health|Article 4. Alcoholism and Drug Abuse.|Sec. 47.30.500. Definitions.

In AS 47.30.470 - 47.30.490, (1) “alcoholism” means a condition related to alcohol and concerns a physical compulsion which exists, coupled with a mental obsession; (2) “costs of improvement, renovation, or new construction of facilities” includes, in addition to costs directly related to the project, the sum total of all costs of financing and carrying out the project; these include, but are not limited to, the costs of all necessary studies, surveys, plans and specifications, architectural, engineering, or other special services, acquisition of real property, site preparation and development, purchase, construction, reconstruction, and improvement of real property, and the acquisition of machinery and equipment as may be necessary in connection with the project; an allocable portion of the administrative and operating expenses of the grantee; the cost of financing the project, including interest on bonds issued to finance the project; and the cost of other items, including any indemnity and surety bonds and premiums on insurance, legal fees, fees and expenses of trustees, depositaries, financial advisors, and paying agents for the bonds issued as the issuer considers necessary; (3) “department” means the Department of Health and Social Services.
AK Stat § 47.30.520 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 47. Welfare, Social Services, and Institutions|Chapter 30. Mental Health|Article 5. Community Mental Health Services Act.|Sec. 47.30.520. Legislative purpose.

It is the purpose of the Community Mental Health Services Act to (1) provide a range of community-based inpatient, outpatient, and support services for persons with mental disorders; (2) assist communities in planning, organizing, and financing community mental health services through locally developed, administered, and controlled community mental health programs; (3) better develop and use resources at both state and local levels; (4) develop and implement plans for comprehensive mental health services based on demonstrated need on a regional basis; (5) improve the effectiveness of existing mental health services; (6) integrate state-operated and community mental health programs into a unified mental health system; (7) ensure that consumers, families, and representatives of communities within mental health planning regions can participate in planning for, determining the need for, and allocating mental health resources; (8) provide a means of allocating money available for state mental health services according to community needs; (9) encourage the full use of all existing public or private agencies, facilities, personnel, and funds to accomplish these objectives; and (10) prevent unnecessary duplication and fragmentation of services and expenditures.
AK Stat § 47.30.523 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 47. Welfare, Social Services, and Institutions|Chapter 30. Mental Health|Article 5. Community Mental Health Services Act.|Sec. 47.30.523. Community mental health program policy and principles.

(a) It is the policy of the state that (1) the community mental health program provide a comprehensive and integrated system of community-based facilities, supports, and mental health services, including child and adolescent screening and diagnosis, inpatient, outpatient, prevention, consultation, and education services; (2) persons most in need of community mental health services receive appropriate services as provided under AS 47.30.056; (3) the community mental health program be coordinated, to the maximum extent possible, with the programs established under AS 47.37, AS 47.65, AS 47.80, and other programs affecting the well being of persons in need of mental health services. (b) Community mental health program service delivery principles include the principles that persons (1) have ready and prompt access to necessary screening, diagnosis, and treatment; (2) receiving community mental health services be informed of their rights, including their rights to confidentiality and to treatment with dignity; (3) be provided community mental health services by staff and programs that reflect the culture, linguistic, and other social characteristics of their community and that incorporate multidisciplinary professional staff to meet client functional levels and diagnostic and treatment needs; (4) in need of community mental health services, and their families, be encouraged to participate in formulating, delivering, and evaluating treatment and rehabilitation; (5) in need of community mental health services be provided treatment and rehabilitation services designed to minimize institutionalization and maximize individual potential; (6) be treated in the least restrictive alternative environment consistent with their treatment needs, enabling the person to live as normally as possible; (7) be provided necessary treatment as close to the person's home as possible; (8) be informed of and allowed to participate in planning their own treatment as much as possible.
AK Stat § 47.30.530 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 47. Welfare, Social Services, and Institutions|Chapter 30. Mental Health|Article 5. Community Mental Health Services Act.|Sec. 47.30.530. Duties of department.

(a) The department shall administer the provisions of AS 47.30.520 - 47.30.620 and shall (1) define and develop standards for various levels and qualities of mental health care; (2) provide fiscal and professional technical assistance in planning, organizing, developing, implementing, and administering local mental health services; (3) develop budgets and receive and distribute state appropriations and funds in accordance with the provisions of AS 47.30.520 - 47.30.620; (4) establish standards of education and experience for professional, technical, and administrative personnel employed in community mental health services; (5) assist the community in establishing the organization and operation of community mental health services; (6) develop a standardized system for measuring and reporting to the department the types, quantities, and quality of services; and develop a cost accounting system that will demonstrate the cost of various levels and qualities of care; (7) provide each local community planning and services delivery entity with statistics, reports, and other data relevant to development of indices indicating the need for mental health services, or relevant to evaluating the effectiveness of existing services; (8) review each local community plan and require each plan to include (A) an affirmative showing that the most effective and economic use will be made of all available public and private resources in the community including careful consideration of the most effective and economic alternative forms and patterns of services; (B) a five-year projection of needs, services, and resources; and (C) adequate provisions for review and evaluation of services provided in the local community; (9) adopt regulations and establish priorities, after consultation with local communities affected and in conjunction with the Alaska Mental Health Board, that are necessary to carry out the purposes of AS 47.30.520 - 47.30.620. (b) In performing its duties under (a) of this section, the department shall coordinate with the Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority established in AS 47.30.011.
AK Stat § 47.30.545 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 47. Welfare, Social Services, and Institutions|Chapter 30. Mental Health|Article 5. Community Mental Health Services Act.|Sec. 47.30.545. Populations to be served.

The entities designated by the department to receive money under AS 47.30.540(b) shall provide one or more of the services that are set out in AS 47.30.056(i) to persons identified in AS 47.30.056.
AK Stat § 47.30.547 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 47. Welfare, Social Services, and Institutions|Chapter 30. Mental Health|Article 5. Community Mental Health Services Act.|Sec. 47.30.547. Standards for community mental health services.

An entity that provides community mental health services shall (1) make services available at times and locations that enable residents of the entity's service area to obtain services readily; (2) ensure each client's right to confidentiality and treatment with dignity; (3) establish staffing patterns of qualified and trained personnel that reflect the cultural, linguistic, and other social characteristics of the community and that incorporate multidisciplinary professional staff to meet client functional levels and diagnostic and treatment needs; (4) promote client and family participation in formulating, delivering, and evaluating treatment and rehabilitation; (5) design screening, diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation services to maximize individual potential and to minimize institutionalization; and (6) provide services in the least restrictive setting, enabling the person receiving the services to live as normally as possible.
AK Stat § 47.30.550 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 47. Welfare, Social Services, and Institutions|Chapter 30. Mental Health|Article 5. Community Mental Health Services Act.|Sec. 47.30.550. Cost sharing formulas; use of income.

(a) In a district designated by the department as a poverty area, the department may fund not more than 90 percent of the eligible costs of the community mental health services to be furnished under an entity's approved plan. (b) In a district that has not been designated by the department as a poverty area, the department may fund not more than 75 percent of the eligible costs of the community mental health services to be furnished under an entity's approved plan. (c) Notwithstanding (a) and (b) of this section, if the department determines that sufficient funds from other sources are unavailable, then the department shall fund the percent of the eligible costs that is necessary in order to ensure that services for chronically mentally ill adults and severely mentally ill children, and other community mental health services to be furnished under an entity's approved plan are made available by the entity. Funding under this subsection is subject to the availability of legislative appropriations for the purpose. (d) Income earned by an entity through a community mental health project funded under AS 47.30.520 - 47.30.620 shall be used to augment or enhance the entity's mental health services. (e) In (a) and (b) of this section, “poverty area” means a census district in which at least 15 percent of the population, based upon the most recent census data, falls under 125 percent of the United States Department of Health and Human Services' Poverty Income Guidelines for Alaska, as reported in the Federal Register.
AK Stat § 47.30.560 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 47. Welfare, Social Services, and Institutions|Chapter 30. Mental Health|Article 5. Community Mental Health Services Act.|Sec. 47.30.560. Contracts and expenditures.

The contracts for services provided for in AS 47.30.520 - 47.30.620 shall be reviewed, revised if necessary, and approved at the expiration of each contract year. A contract shall be approved if the department finds that the community entity has complied with its plan, AS 47.30.520 - 47.30.620, and any applicable regulations adopted by the department. Expenditures for the purchase of services shall be made in accordance with the approved contract, budgets, and program projections.
AK Stat § 47.30.570 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 47. Welfare, Social Services, and Institutions|Chapter 30. Mental Health|Article 5. Community Mental Health Services Act.|Sec. 47.30.570. Regulations; eligible services and costs.

The department shall adopt regulations specifying the types of services and program costs eligible for state participation. These regulations must include (1) a provision excluding capital expenditures as eligible costs; and (2) a requirement that the community entity contractor or applicant agrees as a condition of contract approval that it will not supplant existing local fund support of community mental health services with funds received under AS 47.30.520 - 47.30.620 and that it will continue local funding support of community mental health services, in any year in which it contracts with the department, at a level that is at least equal to the local funding support in the previous year.
AK Stat § 47.30.580 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 47. Welfare, Social Services, and Institutions|Chapter 30. Mental Health|Article 5. Community Mental Health Services Act.|Sec. 47.30.580. Comprehensive services.

Plans and regulations adopted under AS 47.30.520 - 47.30.620 must allow local programs sufficient administrative and program flexibility so that local community mental health programs may be joined with other programs such as intellectual and developmental disability programs, drug abuse programs, alcoholism programs, and comprehensive mental health services programs.
AK Stat § 47.30.590 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 47. Welfare, Social Services, and Institutions|Chapter 30. Mental Health|Article 5. Community Mental Health Services Act.|Sec. 47.30.590. Patient rights and the confidential nature of records and information.

(a) The department shall adopt regulations to assure patient rights and to safeguard the confidential nature of records and information about the recipients of services provided under this chapter. The regulations must require that entities identified in AS 47.30.540(b) develop and include in any plan submitted for approval adequate provisions for safeguarding confidential information. The regulations must provide for disclosure of confidential information to parents or guardians, to mental health professionals providing services to a recipient, and to other appropriate service agencies when it is in the defined best interests of the patient. (b) Notwithstanding (a) of this section, the department is authorized to review, obtain, and copy confidential and other records and information about the clients of services requested or furnished under AS 47.30.520 - 47.30.620 to evaluate compliance with those statutes. The department may obtain the records and information regarding clients from the client or directly from an entity designated by the department under AS 47.30.520 - 47.30.620 that furnished those services. Records obtained by the department under this subsection are medical records, shall be handled confidentially, and are exempt from public inspection and copying under AS 40.25.110 - 40.25.120.
AK Stat § 47.30.610 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 47. Welfare, Social Services, and Institutions|Chapter 30. Mental Health|Article 5. Community Mental Health Services Act.|Sec. 47.30.610. Definitions.

In AS 47.30.520 - 47.30.610, (1) “authority” means the Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority established in AS 47.30.011; (2) “department” means the Department of Health and Social Services; (3) “persons with mental disorders” means persons with disorders currently included within nationally accepted diagnostic systems of the mental health professions; (4) “trust” has the meaning given in AS 47.30.061.
AK Stat § 47.30.620 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 47. Welfare, Social Services, and Institutions|Chapter 30. Mental Health|Article 5. Community Mental Health Services Act.|Sec. 47.30.620. Short title.

AS 47.30.520 - 47.30.620 may be cited as the Community Mental Health Services Act.
AK Stat § 47.30.655 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 47. Welfare, Social Services, and Institutions|Chapter 30. Mental Health|Article 6. State Mental Health Policy.|Sec. 47.30.655. Purpose and principles of major revision.

The purpose of the 1981 major revision of Alaska civil commitment statutes (AS 47.30.660 and 47.30.670 - 47.30.915) is to more adequately protect the legal rights of persons suffering from mental illness. The legislature has attempted to balance the individual's constitutional right to physical liberty and the state's interest in protecting society from persons who are dangerous to others and protecting persons who are dangerous to themselves by providing due process safeguards at all stages of commitment proceedings. In addition, the following principles of modern mental health care have guided this revision: (1) that persons be given every reasonable opportunity to accept voluntary treatment before involvement with the judicial system; (2) that persons be treated in the least restrictive alternative environment consistent with their treatment needs; (3) that treatment occur as promptly as possible and as close to the individual's home as possible; (4) that a system of mental health community facilities and supports be available; (5) that patients be informed of their rights and be informed of and allowed to participate in their treatment program as much as possible; (6) that persons who are mentally ill but not dangerous to others be committed only if there is a reasonable expectation of improving their mental condition.
AK Stat § 47.30.661 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 47. Welfare, Social Services, and Institutions|Chapter 30. Mental Health|Article 7. Alaska Mental Health Board.|Sec. 47.30.661. Alaska Mental Health Board.

The Alaska Mental Health Board is established. For budgetary purposes, the board is located within the department. The board is the state planning and coordinating agency for the purposes of federal and state laws relating to the mental health program of the state. The purpose of the board is to assist the state in ensuring an integrated comprehensive mental health program.
AK Stat § 47.30.662 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 47. Welfare, Social Services, and Institutions|Chapter 30. Mental Health|Article 7. Alaska Mental Health Board.|Sec. 47.30.662. Composition; non-voting members.

(a) The board consists of not fewer than 12 nor more than 16 members appointed by the governor, with due regard for the demographics of the state and balanced geographic representation of the state. The membership and committees of the board shall fulfill the requirements of P.L. 99-660, as amended. (b) Not less than one-half of the members shall be persons with a mental disorder identified in AS 47.30.056(b)(1) or members of their families. (c) The board members (1) shall include the director of the division of the department responsible for mental health; and (2) may include representatives of the principal state agencies with respect to education, vocational rehabilitation, criminal justice, housing, social services, medical assistance, substance abuse, and aging. (d) Board members appointed under (c) of this section may not vote on matters before the board. (e) The board members shall include at least two licensed mental health professionals who represent public and private providers of mental health services and at least one member who is admitted to practice law in the state. Members appointed under this subsection may also be family members identified under (b) of this section.
AK Stat § 47.30.663 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 47. Welfare, Social Services, and Institutions|Chapter 30. Mental Health|Article 7. Alaska Mental Health Board.|Sec. 47.30.663. Terms of office; vacancies; removal.

(a) Board members serve staggered terms of three years. (b) A vacancy occurring in the membership of the board shall be filled by appointment of the governor for the unexpired portion of the vacated term. (c) Members may be removed only for cause, including, but not limited to, poor attendance or lack of contribution to the board's work.
AK Stat § 47.30.664 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 47. Welfare, Social Services, and Institutions|Chapter 30. Mental Health|Article 7. Alaska Mental Health Board.|Sec. 47.30.664. Officers and staff.

(a) The board, by a majority of its membership, shall annually elect a chair and other officers it considers necessary from among its membership. (b) The board shall have a paid staff provided by the department, including, but not limited to, an executive director who shall be selected by the board. The executive director is in the partially exempt service and may hire additional employees in the classified service of the state. The department shall provide for the assignment of personnel to the board to ensure the board has the capacity to fulfill its responsibilities. The executive director of the board shall be directly responsible to the board in the performance of the director's duties.
AK Stat § 47.30.665 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 47. Welfare, Social Services, and Institutions|Chapter 30. Mental Health|Article 7. Alaska Mental Health Board.|Sec. 47.30.665. Bylaws.

The board, on approval of a majority of its membership and consistent with state law, shall adopt and amend bylaws governing its composition, proceedings, and other activities consistent with state law and including, but not limited to, provisions concerning a quorum to transact board business and other aspects of procedure, frequency and location of meetings, and establishment, functions, and membership of committees.