Terms Used In Florida Statutes 394.77

  • Department: means the Department of Children and Families. See Florida Statutes 394.67
  • Mental health services: means those therapeutic interventions and activities that help to eliminate, reduce, or manage symptoms or distress for persons who have severe emotional distress or a mental illness and to effectively manage the disability that often accompanies a mental illness so that the person can recover from the mental illness, become appropriately self-sufficient for his or her age, and live in a stable family or in the community. See Florida Statutes 394.67
The department shall establish, for the purposes of control of costs:

(1) A uniform management information system and fiscal accounting system for use by providers of community substance abuse and mental health services.
(2) A uniform reporting system with uniform definitions and reporting categories.