North Dakota Code 50-06-05.3 – Regional human service centers – Powers – Duties – Human service advisory groups
1. Regional human service centers shall provide human services to all eligible individuals and families to help individuals and families achieve or maintain social, emotional, and economic self-sufficiency by providing human services to:
Terms Used In North Dakota Code 50-06-05.3
- population: means the number of inhabitants as determined by the last preceding state or federal census. See North Dakota Code 1-01-47
- State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
- year: means twelve consecutive months. See North Dakota Code 1-01-33
a. Prevent, reduce, or eliminate dependency; b. Prevent or reduce inappropriate institutional care by providing for care while institutionalized or providing for community-based or other forms of less restrictive care; c. Secure referral or admission for institutional care; d. Provide outpatient diagnostic and treatment services; and
e. Provide rehabilitation and crisis services for patients with mental, emotional, or substance use disorders, an intellectual disability, and other psychiatric conditions, particularly for those patients who have received prior treatment in an inpatient facility.
2. Regional human service centers shall deliver services in the manner prescribed by the department.
3. Regional human service centers may provide behavioral health collaborative care and consultation services, including psychiatric consultation, with private providers and correctional facility providers.
4. Each regional human service center must have a human services advisory group consisting of the human service zone directors of the region served, the public health directors of the region served, two current county commissioners appointed by the commissioner of the department or the commissioner’s designee, and five additional members appointed by the commissioner of the department or the commissioner’s designee. Each advisory group member must be a resident of the region the member is appointed to serve. The term of office for each appointed member is two years and arranged so that the term of three of the appointed members expires at the end of the first year and the term of the remaining four appointed members expires at the end of the second year, except for those first members appointed, three members shall serve a one-year term and four members shall serve a two-year term. The commissioner of the department or the commissioner’s designee shall select the appointed members of each human service advisory group on the basis of population of the counties in the region served by the regional human service center. Each county in the region must be represented by at least one member on the human service advisory group. To the extent possible, appointed membership of the advisory group must reflect regional interests in the fields of developmental disabilities, social services, mental health, and substance use disorders. The commissioner of the department or the commissioner’s designee shall appoint a chairman for each advisory group from the membership of the advisory group. The commissioner of the department or the commissioner’s designee shall fill a vacancy occurring within an advisory group for other than the expiration of a term in the same manner as original appointments, except that appointments must be made only for the unexpired term. The department shall compensate appointed members of a human service advisory group at the rate of forty-five dollars per day, not to exceed twenty-five days in any one year. The department also shall pay members for mileage and actual expenses incurred in attending meetings and in the performance of their official duties in the amounts provided by law for other state officers.