1. The department shall prepare a state plan to secure coordinated intellectual disabilities and developmental disabilities habilitation services accessible to persons in need of them in defined geographic areas, which plan shall be reviewed and revised annually.

2. The state plan shall include, but not be limited to, the following:

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(1) A needs-assessment of the state to determine underserved, unserved and inappropriately served populations and areas;

(2) Statements of short-term and long-term goals for meeting the needs of currently served, underserved, unserved or inappropriately served populations and areas of the state;

(3) An inventory of existing private and public residential facilities, day programs and other service providers offering intellectual disability or developmental disability evaluation and habilitation services;

(4) Evaluations of the effects of habilitation programs;

(5) Descriptions of the following:

(a) Methods for assuring active consumer-oriented citizen participation throughout the system;

(b) Strategies and procedures for encouraging, coordinating and integrating community-based services, wherever practicable, to avoid duplication by private, not-for-profit and public state and community-based providers of services;

(c) Methods for monitoring the quality of evaluation and habilitation services funded by the state;

(d) Rules which set standards for construction, staffing, operations and programs, as appropriate, for any public or private entity to meet for receiving state licensing, certification or funding; and

(e) Plans for addressing the particular intellectual disability or developmental disability service needs of each region, including special strategies for rural and urban unserved, underserved or inappropriately served populations in areas of the state.

3. In preparing the state plan, the department shall take into consideration its regional plans.