COMMUNITIES AS
FOCAL POINT FOR FUNDING & DELIVERY OF MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES
It is the intent of the Montana Association of Counties
to facilitate communities as the focal point for the delivery of mental
health services and to insure state funding to an adequate level.
WHEREAS, counties recognize that mental health services delivered at the community level are medically and financially most efficacious; and
WHEREAS, counties are sympathetic with the DPHHS challenges in controlling the state mental health budget and census at the state hospital; and
WHEREAS, a lack of adequately funded community services by the state puts pressure on high-end services and further strains on the budgets,
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that MACo supports legislation and planning that emphasizes communities as the focal point for the funding and delivery of mental health services, recognizing that it produces the best results for the mental health consumer and the taxpayer, and should be state funded to an adequate level.
SPONSOR: MACo Health & Human Service Committee
RECOMMENDATION: Do Pass
PRIORITY: High
REFERRED TO: MACo Health & Human Services Committee
ADOPTED: Annual Conference; Big Sky, MT
September 25, 2002
SPONSOR: MACo Health & Human Service Committee
RECOMMENDATION: Do Pass, Amended, Resolutions Committee,
September 4, 2004
PRIORITY: High
REFERRED TO: MACo Health & Human Services Committee
ADOPTED: