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Central Office, State Facility, And Community Services Board Partnership Agreement Section 2: Roles and Responsibilities Although this partnership philosophy helps to ensure positive working relationships, each partner has a unique role in providing public mental health, mental retardation, and substance abuse services. These distinct roles promote varying levels of expertise and create opportunities for identifying the most effective mechanisms for planning, delivering, and evaluating services Central Office 1. Ensures through distribution of available funding that a system of community-based and state facility resources exists for the delivery of publicly-funded services and supports to Virginia residents with mental illness, mental retardation, or alcohol or other drug dependence or abuse. 2. Promotes at all locations of the public mental health, mental retardation, and substance abuse service delivery system (including the Central Office) quality improvement efforts that focus on consumer outcome and provider performance measures designed to enhance service quality, accessibility, and availability. 3. Supports and encourages the involvement and participation of consumers and family members of consumers in policy formulation and services planning, delivery, monitoring, and evaluation. 4. Ensures fiscal accountability that is required in applicable provisions of the Code of Virginia, relevant state and federal regulations, and State Mental Health, Mental Retardation and Substance Abuse Services Board policies. 5. Promotes identification of state-of-the-art programming and resources that exist as models for consideration by other operational partners. 6. Seeks opportunities to affect regulatory, policy, funding, and other decisions made by the Governor, the Secretary of Health and Human Resources, the General Assembly, other state agencies, and federal agencies that interact with or affect the other partners. 7. Encourages and facilitates state interagency collaboration and cooperation to meet the service needs of consumers and to identify and address statewide interagency issues that affect or support an effective system of care. 8. Serves as the single point of accountability to the Governor and the General Assembly for the public system of mental health, mental retardation, and substance abuse services. 9. Problem solves and collaborates with a CSB and State Facility together on a complex or difficult consumer situation when the CSB and State Facility have not been able to resolve the situation successfully at their level. Community Services Boards 1. Serve as the single points of entry into the publicly-funded system of services and supports for Virginia residents with mental illnesses, mental retardation, or alcohol or other drug dependence or abuse. 2. Serve as the local points of accountability for the public mental health, mental retardation, and substance abuse service delivery system. 3. To the fullest extent that resources allow, promote the delivery of community-based-services that address the specific needs of individual consumers with a focus on service quality, accessibility, and availability. 4. Support and encourage the involvement and participation of consumers and family members of consumers in policy formulation and services planning, delivery, monitoring, and evaluation. 2. 05-02-03