Local Services Plans

Overview

Every year Local Governmental Units develop and submit a combined Local Services Plan to the three New York State mental hygiene agencies:

The Office of Mental Health
The Office of Addiction Services and Supports
The Office for People with Developmental Disabilities

These plans serve as a guidebook for both local and state agencies to determine where needs are not being met and how to better serve all New Yorkers.

LGUs complete both a Needs Assessment form and a Goals and Plans form for a four-year planning cycle and make updates to these forms. There is an optional List of Providers to Promote Interagency Collaboration form. Together these forms make up the Local Services Plan.

The priorities identified in county plans informs our policy, programming, and budgeting decisions. To ensure that policies supporting people with mental illness are developed and implemented statewide, we continue to work with counties on the local services planning process.