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SFY 2003 CommUnitY Services Performance Contract for Operating CSBs and Behavioral Health Authorities 1.0 Introduction Whereas, Title 37.1 of the Code of Virginia establishes the Virginia Department of Mental Health. Mental Retardation and Substance Abuse Services, hereinafter referred to as the Department. to ensure the delivery of publicly-funded services and supports to citizens of the Commonwealth with mental illnesses, mental retardation, or substance dependence or abuse and authorizes the Department to fund community mental health, mental retardation, and substance abuse services; and Whereas, §§ 37.1-194 through 202. l of the Code of Virginia require cities and counties to establish, singly or in combination with other jurisdictions, community services boards for the purpose of providing, directly or contractually, publicly-funded local mental health, mental retardation, and substance abuse services; and Whereas, § 37. I-194.1 of the Code of ?irgiftia defines three types of community services boards: operating community services boards, administrative policy community services boards, and policy- advisory community services boards with local government departments; and Whereas, §§ 37.1-242 through 253 of the Code of Virginia authorize certain cities or counties to establish behavioral health authorities that plan and provide, directly or contractually, publicly- funded local mental health, mental retardation, and substance abuse services; and Whereas, relationships between the different types of community services boards or behavioral health authorities and their local governments or the Department vary significantly, in terms of structure, accountability, oversight, support, and supervision, and these variations are reflected in this version of the performance contract for operating community services boards and behavioral health authorities; and Whereas, throughout this contract the operating community services board or behavioral health authority named below will be referred to as the Board; and Whereas, § 37.1-197.1 of the Code of Virginia requires the Board to function as the single point of entry into the publicly-funded mental health, mental retardation, and substance abuse services system; and Whereas, the Department desires to fund the provision ofcommunity mental health, mental retardation, and substance abuse services that: 1. address the specific needs of individual consumers, 2. support consumer and family participation in planning services and choice among providers, 3. achieve enhanced accountability for consumer and provider outcomes, and 4. encourage private sector provision of services to the extent possible; and Whereas, §§ 37.1-198 and 248.1 of the Code of Virginia establish this performance contract as the primary accountability and funding mechanism between the Department and the Board; and Page I of ,41 05-06-2002