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What is the Community Mental Health Services Block Grant Program?

What is the Community Mental Health Servicesand educational services. The program also
Block  Grant  Program?promotes partnerships among Federal, State,
and  local  government  agencies.
The Community Mental Health Services Block
Grant is authorized by Part B of Title XIX of• The Community Mental Health Services
the Public Health Service Act and is theBlock Grant supports grassroots involvement
single largest Federal contribution dedicatedof the major stakeholders in mental health
to improving mental health service systemsservices at both the State and the Federal
across  the  country.levels. Each State or Territory is required
to have a mental health planning council to
The Center for Mental Health Services'review the State Mental Health Plan. Each
Community Mental Health Services Block Grantcouncil must include consumers of mental
awards grants to the States to provide mentalhealth services and family members, as well
health services to people with mentalas service providers and State officials. The
disorders. Through the Community MentalState also is required to seek comments from
Health Services Block Grant, a jointthe  public  on  its  plan.
Federal-State partnership, CMHS supports
existing public services and encourages the• At the Federal level, mental health
development of creative and cost-effectiveplanning council members-including family
systems of community-based care for peoplemembers, consumers, State officials, and
with  serious  mental  disorders.service providers-serve as CMHS reviewers of
State Mental Health Plans and Implementation
With the current changes in the health careReports. They often share their expertise at
delivery system, improving access toregional and national technical assistance
community-based systems is especiallymeetings.
important. CMHS is the Federal agency that
oversees State Mental Health Plans andWhat types of technical assistance does CMHS
Implementation Reports, using mental healthprovide?
experts for the regional consultative
application  review  process.Five percent of funding is set aside for the
Center for Mental Health Services to provide
Who does the Community Mental Health Servicestechnical assistance, data collection, and
Block  Grant  Program  serve?evaluation activities to States and
territories and their representatives, as
• In communities throughout the Unitedwell as mental health planning council
States, mental disorders affect people of allmembers, consumers, and family members.
ages and in all walks of life. Almost 54Technical  assistance  activities  include:
million adults in the United States are
affected by mental disorders in any given• The Mental Health Statistics
year.Improvement Program, designed to develop
minimum data standards that provide a basis
• Preliminary studies indicate thatfor uniform, comparable, high-quality
more than 12 million children (20 percent ofstatistics  on  mental  health  services;
all children) in the United States experience
mental and emotional disturbances while• The National Reporting Program, the
growing  up.only national source of information on mental
health organizations, services, and service
• Each year in the United States, morerecipients;  and
than 5 million adults and children are
diagnosed with schizophrenia, bipolar• National Technical Assistance
disorder, severe depression, and otherCenters: one of which evaluates systems that
serious mental disorders. People with theseserve children, another of which evaluates
disorders have extensive and complex needs,systems that serve adults, and the third of
and most individuals quickly exhaustwhich provides technical assistance to the
available insurance benefits. At that point,States  for  mental  health  planning.
they and their families often turn to their
States and the public system of mental healthCMHS conducts national and regional technical
care.assistance meetings dealing with the
Community Mental Health Services Block Grant
What does the Community Mental Healthapplication process, the enhancement of
Services  Block  Grant  Program  do?existing systems of community mental health
services, strategies for transitioning into a
• Because what is effective in onemanaged care environment, development of a
State may not be effective in another, thenational set of mental health objectives, and
Community Mental Health Services Block Grantuse  of  consumer  outcome  objectives.
works in close collaboration with each State
or Territory to develop and implement its own• Community Mental Health Services
State Mental Health Plan for improvingBlock  Grant  Funding
community-based services and reducing
reliance on hospitalization. The programFor free information about the Mental Health
stipulates that case management be providedBlock Grant Program and other CMHS programs -
to individuals with the most serious mentalincluding publications, references, and
disorders and encourages appropriatereferrals to local and national resources and
partnerships among a wide range of health,organizations - call 1.800.789.2647; (TDD)
dental, mental health, vocational, housing,1.866.889.2647.



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