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 PUBLIC LAW 96-398—OCT. 7, 1980

94 STAT. 1573

(3) Of the total amount appropriated under paragraphs (1) and (2) for any fiscal year, the Secretary may not obligate more than 5 percent for grants under subsection (a) to community mental health centers which are operated by hospitals and which have advisory committees as prescribed by section 101(c)(2).

Restriction.

GRANTS FOR SERVICES FOR CHRONICALLY MENTALLY ILL INDIVIDUALS

SEC. 202. (a)(1) The Secretary may make grants to any State mental health authority, community mental health center, or other public or nonprofit private entity for projects for the provision of mental health and related support services for chronically mentally ill individuals. No grant may be made under this subsection for a project unless the project provides for at least the following: (A) The identification of the chronically mentally ill individuals residing in the area to be served by the project. (B) Assistance to such individuals in gaining access to essential mental health services, medical and dental care and rehabilitation services, and employment, housing, and other support services designed to enable chronically mentally ill individuals to function outside of inpatient institutions to the maximum extent of their capabilities. (C) Assuring the availability, for each such chronically mentally ill individual who needs both mental health and related support services, of an individual to assume responsibility for seeing to it that the individual receives any such service that the individual needs. (D) Coordinating the provision of mental health and related support services to such individuals with the provision of other services to them. (2) A grant under this subsection for a project in a mental health service area served by a community mental health center may be made only to the community mental health center or to the State mental health authority of the State in which the area is located, except that, if the Secretary finds that because of exceptional circumstances in the mental health service area the chronically mentally ill individuals in the area would be otherwise underserved, a grant may be made to any other public or private nonprofit entity. (3) In considering applications for grants under this subsection, the Secretary shall give special consideration to applications for projects designed to supplement and strengthen existing community support services. (b) The Secretary may make grants to any State mental health authority to— (1) improve the skills of personnel providing services to chronically mentally ill individuals by providing or arranging for the provision of inservice training, other training, or retraining for such personnel; or (2) coordinate the operations of State agencies or intrastate regional agencies responsible for mental heedth and related support services for chronically mentally ill individuals, and coordinate the provision of mental health and support services for chronically mentally ill individuals with the provision of services to such individuals under titles IV, V, XVI, XVIII, XIX, and XX of the Social Security Act and under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the United States Housing Act, the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act, the Developmental Disabilities

42 USC 9432.

Service requirements.

Recipients; restriction, exception.

Applications, special consideration. Grants, purposes.

42 USC 601, 701, 1381, 1395, 1396, 1397. 29 USC 701 note, 42 USC 1437 note. 29 USC 801 note.

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