Mental Health/Developmental Disabilities and Substance
August 2005 Mental Health/Developmental Disabilities and Substance Abuse Services System Reform in North Carolina After a year of study and stakeholder input, the General Assembly passed Session Law 2001-437, commonly known as House Bill 381 MH/DD/SAS Reform. The thirty-one pages of statute changes form the basis of what the Division of MH/DD/SAS now calls "system transformation" that mandates greater county oversight and consumer input, focuses the system on the most seriously disabled, divests services and supports from area programs to community providers, and calls for the development of local and state level plans . . .

