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<br />FY 2007 Community Services Performance Contract
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<br />1. Contract Purpose
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<br />a. Title 37.2 of the Code of Virginia establishes the Virginia Department of Mental Health,
<br />Mental Retardation and Substance Abuse Services (the Department) to ensure delivery of
<br />publicly funded services and supports to individuals with mental illnesses, mental
<br />retardation, or substance use disorders and authorizes the Department to fund community
<br />mental health, mental retardation, and substance abuse services.
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<br />b. Sections 37.2-500 through 511 of the Code of Virginia require cities and counties to
<br />establish community services boards for the purpose of providing local public mental health,
<br />mental retardation, and substance abuse services; and 99 37.2-600 through 614 authorize
<br />certain cities or counties to establish behavioral health authorities that plan and provide
<br />those same local public services. In this contract, the community services board, local
<br />government department with a policy-advisory community services board, or behavioral
<br />health authority named on page 15 of this contract will be referred to as the Board.
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<br />c. Section 37.2-500 or 37.2-601 of the Code of Virginia states that, in order to provide
<br />comprehensive mental health, mental retardation, and substance abuse services within a
<br />continuum of care, the Board shall function as the single point of entry into publicly funded
<br />mental health, mental retardation, and substance abuse services. The Board fulfills this
<br />function in accordance with State Board Policy 1035 for any person who is located in the
<br />Board's service area and needs mental health, mental retardation, or substance abuse
<br />services.
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<br />d. Sections 37.2-508 and 37.2-608 of the Code of Virginia establish this contract as the
<br />primary accountability and funding mechanism between the Department and the Board.
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<br />e. The Board is applying for the assistance provided under Chapter 5 or 6 of Title 37.2 of the
<br />Code of Virginia by submitting this performance contract to the Department in accordance
<br />with 9 37.2-508 or 9 37.2-608 of the Code of Virginia.
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<br />f. This contract establishes requirements and responsibilities for the Board and the
<br />Department that are not established through other means, such as statute or regulation.
<br />The General Requirements Document, which, by agreement of the parties, is hereby
<br />incorporated into and made a part of this contract by reference, includes or incorporates by
<br />reference ongoing statutory, regulatory, policy, and other requirements that are not
<br />expected to change frequently and accordingly are not included in this contract.
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<br />g. The Department and the Board enter into this performance contract for the purpose of
<br />funding services provided directly or contractually by the Board in a manner that ensures
<br />accountability to the Department and quality of care for consumers and implements the
<br />vision, articulated in State Board Policy 1036, of a consumer-driven system of services and
<br />supports that promotes self-determination, empowerment, recovery, resilience, health, and
<br />the highest possible level of consumer participation in all aspects of community life,
<br />including work, school, family, and other meaningful relationships, and the Board and the
<br />Department agree as follows.
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<br />2. Relationship: The Department functions as the state authority for the public mental health,
<br />mental retardation, and substance abuse services system, and the Board functions as the local
<br />authority for that system. The relationship between and the roles and responsibilities of the
<br />Department and the Board are described more specifically in the current Partnership
<br />Agreement between the parties, which, by agreement of the parties, is hereby incorporated into
<br />and made a part of this contract by reference. This contract shall not be construed to establish
<br />any employer-employee or principal-agent relationship between employees of the Board or its
<br />board of directors and the Department.
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<br />3. Contract Term: This contract shall be in effect for a term of one year, commencing on July
<br />1,2006 and ending on June 30,2007.
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<br />05-05-2006
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