Welfare and Institutions Code 4629 states that the State of California shall enter into five-year contracts with regional centers that shall include annual performance objectives that are specific, measurable, and designed to do all of the following:
- Assist individuals served to achieve life quality outcomes;
- Achieve meaningful progress above the current baselines;
- Develop services and supports identified as necessary to meeting identified needs, including culturally and linguistically appropriate services and supports;
- Measure progress in reducing disparities and improving equity in purchase of service expenditures;
- Measure progress, and report outcomes, in implementing the Employment First Policy.