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Community Mental Health Services Block Grant

The program provides formula grants to States to support community mental health services for adults with serious mental illness and children with serious emotional disturbance.

Rating

What This Rating Means

PERFORMING
Adequate

This rating describes a program that needs to set more ambitious goals, achieve better results, improve accountability or strengthen its management practices.
  • The program is unique. It is the only Federal program that provides funds to every State to develop a comprehensive, community-based system of care for individuals with serious mental illness and serious emotional disturbance who are uninsured or who have no mental health coverage.
  • No comprehensive evaluations have been completed to date on the program. There have been no independent assessments to determine if the program is having its intended impact or to inform program improvements. An evaluation is currently in progress.
  • The program is collecting data on some long-term and annual outcome measures. The program has data on the rate of readmission to State psychiatric hospitals and the rate of consumers/family members reporting positively on outcomes of services.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Conducting an independent, comprehensive evaluation of the program. A 60-day FRN was published on January 12, 2007. The data collection package is expected to be submitted to OMB by Aug 2007.
  • States will report on all CMHS NOMs in FY 2008. An in-depth analysis of the CMHS' Uniform Reporting System (URS) and its application to the NOMS is being conducted and will be completed by July 1.

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