Oregon Revised Statutes Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities; Alcohol and Drug Treatment § 430.634

(1) In order to improve services to persons with mental or emotional disturbances and provide information for uniform analysis, each community mental health program shall collect and report data and evaluate programs in accordance with methods prescribed by the Oregon Health Authority after consultation with the program directors.

(2) Information collected by the authority under subsection (1) of this section shall include, but need not be limited to:

(3) Within the limits of available funds allocated for the administration of community mental health programs, community mental health programs shall collect data and evaluate programs with moneys provided by the authority. The authority shall distribute funds so that programs within the same population grouping shall receive equal amounts of funds. The population groupings are:

(4) During the first biennium that a new service is funded by the authority, two percent of the service funds shall be set aside for use in data collection and evaluation of the service. Thereafter, the service shall be evaluated as a part of the total community mental health program.