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 94 STAT. 1586 Data.

Review; modifications, submittal to Secretary. Personnel standards.

Employee protection. Services part.

PUBLIC LAW 96-398—OCT. 7, 1980 (D) provide that any statistics or other data included in the program or on which the program is based will conform to such criteria, standards, and other requirements relating to their form, method of collection, content, or other aspects as the Secretary may prescribe; (E) provide that the State mental health authority will from time to time, but not less often than annually, review the program and submit to the Secretary appropriate modifications thereof which it considers necessary; (F) include provisions, meeting such requirements as the Office of Personnel Management may prescribe, relating to the establishment and maintenance of personnel standards on a merit basis; and (G) include a statement of the arrangements made pursuant to section 801. (2) The services part shall— (A) identify the mental health service areas within the State; (B) identify the need in each mental health service area of the State for mental health and related support services after consideration of— (i) the demographic, economic, cultural, and social characteristics of the population of the area, and (ii) the special mental health services needs in the area of chronically mentally ill individuals, emotionally disturbed children and adolescents, elderly individuals, and other priority population groups; (C) identify and evaluate the public and private mental health facilities, the mental health personnel, and the mental health services available in each mental health service area, and determine the additional facilities, personnel, and services necessary to meet the mental health needs of each area; (D) identify the methods used (i) to determine the mental health needs of each mental health service area, and (ii) to evaluate the facilities, personnel, and services of each mental health service area; (E) provide the information described in subparagraphs (B) through (D) for mental health services and related support service needs which relate to more than one mental health service area; (F) list the mental health service needs of each mental health service area in the order of priority that such needs should be addressed through the use of existing Federal, State, and local resources; (G) identify measures which need to be taken to alleviate geographic, cultural, linguistic, and economic barriers with respect to the delivery of mental health services in the mental health service areas; (H) identify the legal rights of persons in the State who are mentally ill or otherwise mentally handicapped and describe any measure which needs to be taken to protect such rights; (I) describe the actions which need to be taken by the State and entities in communities of the State to coordinate the provision of mental health and related support services in the State; (J) describe, in specific terms, the actions the State mental health authority will take—

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