Community mental health services: vocational rehabilitation systems.

Existing law states the intent of the Legislature to encourage the establishment in each county of a system of community vocational rehabilitation and employment services for persons with serious psychiatric disabilities and authorizes counties to implement the community vocational rehabilitation system with existing county allocations and funds available from the Department of Rehabilitation and other state and federal agencies. Existing law sets forth the principles that should guide the development of community vocational rehabilitation systems, including that staffing patterns at all levels should reflect the cultural, linguistic, ethnic, racial, disability, sexual, and other social characteristics of the community the program serves. This bill would revise the principles regarding staffing patterns to also state that they should reflect the age and other demographic or social characteristics of the community the program serves.