ORS 410.603 Developmental Disabilities and Mental Health Committee

The Home Care Commission shall create a Developmental Disabilities and Mental Health Committee.

The committee shall provide information and make recommendations to the commission and to the Department of Human Services on:

Methods of improving the quality of services available to persons with developmental disabilities or mental illnesses and the family members of persons with developmental disabilities or mental illnesses;

Means of ensuring that an adequate amount of services are available to persons with developmental disabilities or mental illnesses and the family members of persons with developmental disabilities or mental illnesses; and

All the duties and functions under ORS 410.595 to 410.625 as those duties and functions pertain to persons with developmental disabilities or mental illnesses and the family members of persons with developmental disabilities or mental illnesses, including but not limited to:

Qualifications for personal support workers;

Registration of personal support workers;

Referrals for routine, emergency and respite care;

Training opportunities for personal support workers including, but not limited to, the training described in ORS 410.598; and

Collective bargaining.

The commission and the department shall consider the recommendations of the committee. When the commission or the department does not follow the recommendations of the committee, the commission or the department shall inform the committee of the reasons for not following the recommendations.

The commission shall appoint members to the committee. In appointing members to the committee, the commission shall include at least one:

Consumer of services, activities or purchases available to persons with developmental disabilities;

Consumer of services, activities or purchases available to persons with mental illnesses;

Family member of a person with a developmental disability;

Family member of a person with a mental illness;

Advocate for persons with developmental disabilities or mental illnesses;

Personal support worker;

Representative from an agency that assists persons with developmental disabilities or mental illnesses in finding and arranging resources for home care services; and

Representative from a support services brokerage that assists persons with developmental disabilities or mental illnesses in finding and arranging resources for home care services.