Duties and Responsibilities of the Local Government Units (LGUs).
Section 37
SEC. 37. Duties and Responsibilities of the Local Government Units (LGUs). - The LGUs shall: (a) Review, formulate, and develop the regulations and guidelines necessary to implement an effective mental health care and wellness policy within the territorial jurisdiction of each LGU, including the passage of a local ordinance on the subject of mental health, consistent with existing relevant national policies and guidelines; (b) Integrate mental health care services in the basic health care services, and ensure that mental health services are provided in primary health care facilities and hospitals, within their respective territorial jurisdictions; (c) Establish training programs necessary to enhance the capacity of mental health service providers at the LGU level, in coordination with appropriate national government agencies and other stakeholders: (d) Promote deinstitutionalization and other recovery-based approaches to the delivery of mental health care services: (e) Establish, reorient, and modernize mental health care facilities necessary to adequately provide mental health services, within their respective territorial jurisdictions; (f) Where independent living arrangements are not available, provide or facilitate access to public housing facilities, vocational training and skills development programs, and disability or pension benefits: (g) Refer service users to mental health facilities, professionals, workers, and other service, providers for appropriate care; and (h) Establish a multi-sectoral stakeholder network for the identification, management, and prevention of mental health conditions.