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SB64: Community services board; adds crisis stabilization, outpatient, etc. to list of core services.
Chief Patron
Sen.
Janet Howell (D-32)
Janet Howell
(D-32)
Served: 1992–
Progress
| Introduced | |
| Passed Committee | |
| Passed House | |
| Passed Senate | |
| Signed by Governor | |
| Became Law |
Status
01/31/2008: Failed to Pass in Committee
Summary
Community services boards; core services. Adds crisis stabilization, outpatient, respite, in-home, and residential and housing services to the list of core services required to be provided by community services boards.
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Votes were cast on this bill on the following dates for which Richmond Sunlight has video: 01/23/2008, 01/23/2008, 01/29/2008, 01/29/2008 and 01/31/2008.
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Comments
Nice -- if there exists a CSB that can afford these services. Unfunded mandate. I would add intensive case management, such as PACTs...(and I'm not a fan), and consumer governed and operated services.
PACT is not recovery oriented nor consumer driven as practiced in Virginia (or any state that I know of). It is also extremely expensive and if PACT was added there would be no money at all for basic outpatient services. We have to stop operating our CSB's as triage centers. We need to offer services to folks before they get to the point of qualifiying for a PACT program. Consumers want outpatient counseling/therapy in huge numbers as evidenced by the waiting lists at every CSB in the state that has outpatient counseling, that is consumer driven, not offering more PACT.