The Commission may:

1. Collect and disseminate information pertaining to mental health, intellectual disabilities, developmental disabilities, substance use disorders and co-occurring disorders.

2. Request legislation pertaining to mental health, intellectual disabilities, developmental disabilities, substance use disorders and co-occurring disorders.

3. Review findings of investigations of complaints about the care of any person in a public facility for the treatment of persons with mental illness, persons with intellectual disabilities, persons with developmental disabilities, persons with substance use disorders or persons with co-occurring disorders.

4. Accept, as authorized by the Legislature, gifts and grants of money and property.

5. Take appropriate steps to increase the availability of and to enhance the quality of the care and treatment of persons with mental illness, persons with intellectual disabilities, persons with developmental disabilities, persons with substance use disorders or persons with co-occurring disorders provided through private nonprofit organizations, governmental entities, hospitals and clinics.

6. Promote programs for the treatment of persons with mental illness, persons with intellectual disabilities, persons with developmental disabilities, persons with substance use disorders or persons with co-occurring disorders and participate in and promote the development of facilities for training persons to provide services for persons with mental illness, persons with intellectual disabilities, persons with developmental disabilities, persons with substance use disorders or persons with co-occurring disorders.

7. Create a plan to coordinate the services for the treatment of persons with mental illness, persons with intellectual disabilities, persons with developmental disabilities, persons with substance use disorders or persons with co-occurring disorders provided in this State and to provide continuity in the care and treatment provided.

8. Establish and maintain an appropriate program which provides information to the general public concerning mental illness, intellectual disabilities, developmental disabilities, substance use disorders and co-occurring disorders and consider ways to involve the general public in the decisions concerning the policy on mental illness, intellectual disabilities, developmental disabilities, substance use disorders and co-occurring disorders.

9. Compile statistics on mental illness and study the cause, pathology and prevention of that illness.

10. Establish programs to prevent or postpone the commitment of residents of this State to facilities for the treatment of persons with mental illness, persons with intellectual disabilities, persons with developmental disabilities, persons with substance use disorders or persons with co-occurring disorders.

11. Evaluate the future needs of this State concerning the treatment of mental illness, intellectual disabilities, developmental disabilities, substance use disorders and co-occurring disorders and develop ways to improve the treatment already provided.

12. Take any other action necessary to promote mental health in this State.

(Added to NRS by 1985, 2263; A 1999, 2592; 2009, 663; 2013, 665, 3006; 2017, 2805)