(a) Monitor the development and implementation of Guam’s System of Care Plan for children with SED and work to ensure its sustainability.

(b) Act as the Governing Body for the CMHI cooperative agreement, including, but not limited to:

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(1) make policy decisions for the CMHI cooperative agreement;

(2) create liaisons with the legislative and executive branches of the government of Guam to ensure that needed laws and orders can be obtained in a timely manner;

(3) develop and uphold formal agreements and memoranda of understanding between the collaborating child service agencies;

(4) hold the system of care accountable for meeting high standards of care, including standards for cultural competence and family involvement, as well as standards of practice that have been shown to be effective through research and evaluation studies (such as the ‘Wraparound’ approach to create individual child/family specific service plans);

(5) ensure that cooperative agreement funds are expended appropriately within the community;

(6) regularly monitor the clinical and functional outcomes of the children to insure that services are making a positive contribution;

(7) be aware of relevant reform efforts on Guam and incorporate them into the system of care; and

(8) all departments and agencies of the government shall fully respond to requests for information from the Council within ten (10) days, and if unable to fully respond therein, shall provide a reason for inability to timely respond and expected full response date.

(c) Act as a coordinating body for all system of care resources for children with serious emotional disturbance on Guam, and act as the repository for the collection and distribution of research, findings, and best practice models of treatment for children with SED.

(d) Ensure collaboration and coordination between all stakeholders serving children with a serious emotional disturbance and their families, and establish positive working relationships with elected officials, courts, directors, and community organizations.

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(e) Establish and enforce uniform standards of care for the treatment of children with a serious emotional disturbance, set the policy and objective purposes for monitoring and assessing the provision of services to children with a serious emotional disturbance, and ensure that this monitoring takes place.

(f) Serve as the primary advocate for the system of care on Guam, serve as the primary family/consumer interface for feedback and conflict resolution, and coordinate outreach to and the education of the entire Guam community regarding the system of care and serious emotional disturbance.

(g) Contribute to the interpretation of generated data on the system of care and on children with SED, interpret generated reports on the system of care and on children with SED, based on this interpretation make recommendations and reports to the proper agencies on service provision, and play a lead role in legislation and policy concerning children with SED and the services they receive.

(h) Work collaboratively with the community to establish a Human Resources Development Plan to address the need for on-going assessment of issues surrounding recruitment, supervision, training and retention of system of care workers in the Pacific region, and to free the island from the need to hire mainland workers who lack the cultural competency, knowledge of local methods and traditions, and permanency of ‘home grown’ workers.

(i) Establish contact and relationships with appropriate regional, national, and international agencies and organizations which could support and benefit Guam’s system of care.

(j) Work to expand the system of care model to serve all children in the community, not just children with a serious emotional disturbance.

(k) The Council shall submit a report biannually to I Maga’lahen Guåhan [the Governor] and the Speaker of I Liheslaturan Guåhan [the Legislature] outlining its accomplishments, specific findings and recommendations to improve Guam compliance with this policy.

SOURCE: Added by P.L. 25-141:1 (May 26, 2000). Repealed and reenacted by P.L.
27-047:1 (Dec. 17, 2003).

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2013 NOTE: Pursuant the authority granted by 1 Guam Code Ann. § 1606, numbers and/or letters were altered to adhere to the Compiler’s alpha-numeric scheme.

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