Cal. WIC § 5809
This is the official text of Cal. WIC § 5809, part of California’s Welfare and Institutions Code — governs public social services, juvenile justice, and mental health/developmental disability services.
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Official statutory text
The State Department of Health Care Services shall continue to work with participating counties and other interested parties to refine and establish client and cost outcome and interagency collaboration goals including the expected level of attainment with participating system of care counties. These outcome measures should include specific objectives addressing the following goals:
(a) Client benefit outcomes.
(b) Client and family member satisfaction.
(c) System of care access.
(d) Cost savings, cost avoidance, and cost-effectiveness outcomes that measure short-term or long-term cost savings and cost avoidance achieved in public sector expenditures to the target population.
(a) Client benefit outcomes.
(b) Client and family member satisfaction.
(c) System of care access.
(d) Cost savings, cost avoidance, and cost-effectiveness outcomes that measure short-term or long-term cost savings and cost avoidance achieved in public sector expenditures to the target population.
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