(a) For purposes of subdivision (e) of Section 5346, a county or group of counties that chooses to provide assisted outpatient treatment services pursuant to this article shall offer assisted outpatient treatment services, including, but not limited to, all of the following: (1) Community-based, mobile, multidisciplinary, highly trained mental health teams that use high staff-to-client ratios of no more than 10 clients per team member for those subject to court-ordered services pursuant to Section 5346. (2) A service planning and delivery process that includes the following: (A) Determination of the number of persons to be served and the programs and services that will be provided to meet their needs. The local director of mental health shall consult with the sheriff, the police chief, the probation officer, the mental health board, contract agencies, and family, client, ethnic, and citizen constituency groups as determined by the director. (B) Plans for services, including outreach to families whose adult child living with them is experiencing a severe mental health condition, design of mental health services, coordination and access to medications, psychiatric and psychological services, substance use disorder services, supportive housing or other housing assistance, vocational rehabilitation, and veteransâ services. Plans shall also contain evaluation strategies that shall consider cultural, linguistic, gender, age, and special needs of minorities and those based on any characteristic listed or defined in Section 11135 of the Government Code in the target populations. Provision shall be made for staff with the cultural background and linguistic skills necessary to remove barriers to mental health services as a result of having limited-English-speaking ability and cultural differences. Recipients of outreach services may include families, the public, primary care physicians, and others who are likely to come into contact with individuals who may be experiencing an untreated severe mental illness who would be likely to become homeless if the illness continued to be untreated for a substantial period of time. Outreach to adults may include adults voluntarily or involuntarily hospitalized as a result of a severe mental illness. (C) Provision for services to meet the needs of persons who are physically disabled. (D) Provision for services to meet the special needs of older adults. (E) Provision for family support and consultation services, parenting support and consultation services, and peer support or self-help group support, if appropriate. (F) Provision for services to be client-directed and that employ psychosocial rehabilitation and recovery principles. (G) Provision for psychiatric and psychological services that are integrated with other services and for psychiatric and psychological collaboration in overall service planning. (H) Provision for services specifically directed to young adults 25 years of age or younger who have a serious mental health condition and who are homeless or at significant risk of becoming homeless. These provisions may include continuation of services that still would be received through other funds had eligibility not been terminated as a result of age. (I) Services reflecting special needs of women from diverse cultural backgrounds, including supportive housing that accepts children, personal services coordinator therapeutic treatment, and substance treatment programs that address gender-specific trauma and abuse in the lives of persons with a mental illness, and vocational rehabilitation programs that offer job training programs free of gender bias and sensitive to the needs of women. (J) Provision for housing for clients that is immediate, transitional, permanent, or all of these. (K) Provision for clients who have been experiencing an untreated severe mental illness for less than one year, and who do not require the full range of services, but who are at risk of becoming homeless unless a
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