The general assembly finds that services to persons with mental illness, mental retardation, developmental disabilities, or brain injury are provided in many parts of the state by highly autonomous community-based service providers working cooperatively with state and county officials. However, the general assembly recognizes that heavy reliance on property tax funding for mental health and mental retardation services has restricted uniform availability of this care. Consequently, greater efforts should be made to assure close coordination and continuity of care for those persons receiving publicly supported disability services in Iowa. It is the purpose of this chapter to continue and to strengthen the services to persons with disabilities now available in the state of Iowa, to make these services conveniently available to all persons in this state upon a reasonably uniform financial basis, and to assure the continued high quality of these services.
It is the intent of the general assembly that the service system for persons with disabilities emphasize the ability of persons with disabilities to exercise their own choices about the amounts and types of services received; that all levels of the service system seek to empower persons with disabilities to accept responsibility, exercise choices, and take risks; and that services be provided in a manner which supports the ability of persons with disabilities to live, learn, work, and recreate in natural communities of their choice.
[81 Acts, ch 78, § 1, 20]
94 Acts, ch 1170, §10
Referred to in § 225C.7
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