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• A Consumer's Guide to Mental Health Services Decade of the Brain NIH (CMH94-5001)
  Pamphlet
  This booklet was a joint effort of the Center for Mental Health Services and the National Institute of Mental Health. Describes warning signals, steps to take in emergencies, kinds of help available, and sources for mental health services. 1994. 29 pp.
  
  
• Center for Mental Health Services: Overview (KEN95-0000)
  Fact Sheet
  This fact sheet describes the mission of the Center for Mental Health Services and provides an overview of the Center’s offices and divisions. 1998. 4 pp.
  
  
• Characteristics of State Mental Health Agency Data Systems (SMA08-4361)
  Booklet
  State mental health agencies (SMHAs) are responsible for funding and providing mental health services to more than 6 million persons every year. The SMHAs have information technology systems that are used to identify and count mental health clients and measure system performance. However States' information technology systems vary widely in terms of the types of information collected and their ability to link data between hospitals and community mental health providers. This report reviews the current status of mental health IT in the States and their efforts to improve these crucial systems.
  
  
• Choosing the Right Mental Health Therapist (KEN98-0046)
  Fact Sheet
  This fact sheet outlines 10 steps to finding the best therapist, based on an individual's mental health needs and circumstances. 1998. 3 pp.
  
  
• Community Integration for Older Adults with Mental Illnesses: Overcoming Barriers and Seizing Opportunities (SMA05-4018)
  Report
  This report is the third in a series of reports prepared by the National and Statewide Coalitions to Promote Community-Based Care under Olmstead project, sponsored by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. It is designed to help State and local Olmstead coalitions understand the barriers that older adults face and learn about the innovative solutions being adopted and adapted across the country.
  
  
• Contracting for Public Mental Health Services: Opinions of Managed Behavioral Health Care Organizations (SMA00-3438)
  Report
  This report summarizes the experiences of four managed behavioral health care organizations (MBHCOs) that participated in a focus group on the practices used in public sector managed care contracting. It discusses various problems, looks at the future of contracting, and provides specific recommendations. 2000. 38 pp.
  
  
• Effects of The Vermont Mental Health and Substance Abuse Parity Law (SMA03-3822)
  Report
  Vermont implemented the Nation's most comprehensive parity law in 1998, extending equality of health insurance coverage to both mental health and substance abuse (MH/SA) services. This report discusses how implementation of parity in Vermont affected major stakeholders: employers, health plans, providers, and consumers.
  
  
• Evaluation of the Comprehensive Community Mental Health Services for Children and Their Families Program/Annual Report to Congress 1999 (CB-E199)
  Book/Monograph
  This report provides a comprehensive overview of findings from the evaluation of the Center for Mental Health Services' Comprehensive Community Mental Health Services Program for Children and Their Families.
  
  
• Evaluation of the Comprehensive Community Mental Health Services Program For Children and Their Families, Annual Report to Congress - 1998 (CB-E198)
  Book/Monograph
  In this evaluation, the children had a wide range of diagnoses with many having disruptive behavior disorders (43 percent) including conduct disorder, oppositional defiance disorder, and attention deficit hyperactivity.
  
  
• Formation of Networks, Corporate Affiliations, and Joint Ventures Among Mental Health and Substance Abuse Treatment Organizations. (MC95-43)
  Report
  This report describes models for entities that mental health and substance abuse treatment organizations can develop or participate in for the purpose of engaging in managed care business with third-party payers. 1995. 59 pp.
  
  
• Journal of Primary Prevention-Special Issue Homelessness and Mental Illness Perspectives on Prevention Vol 28 Numbers 3&4 (JPP-07)
  Journal
  Homelessness is a growing social problem. Individuals with serious mental illness and/or substance use disorders are at particularly high risk, experiencing homelessness more often and for longer periods than other subgroups. The individual and societal costs of homelessness are profound adn demand targeted and informed strategies for preventing and ending homelessness. This special issue of The Journal of Primary Prevention describes the most promising and innovative prevention strategies being used to reduce the risk of homelessness, facilitate transition into the community, and stabilize formerly homeless people to reduce the risk of homelessness, facilitate transition into the community, and stabilize formerly homeless people in permanent housing. The articles in this issue outline a range of strategies at the systems, services, and individual levels, targeted across the life span. The issue offers the beginning of a conceptual approach that can shape a comprehensive homelessness prevention framework and galvanize ongoing change. The development of this special issue was done through the Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS)- funded National Resource and Training Center on Homelessness and Mental Illness (contract # 270-03-4005) which is operated by The CDM Group, Inc. in partnership with the National Center on Family Homelessness and the CMHS-funded Homeless Resource Center (contract # HHSS280200600029C) which is operated by The Institute on Homelessness and Trauma.
  
  
• Medical Necessity in Private Health Plans (SMA03-3790)
  Report
  Under basic principles that guide the American health care system, decisions regarding which particular treatments are medically necessary are made by medical professionals in light of their patients' condition and desires, and the state of health care knowledge. At the same time, however, whether a patient ultimately will receive care considered necessary by a treating professional is influenced heavily by the availability of health insurance coverage to finance the recommended treatments.
  
  
• Mental Health & Substance Abuse Services Under the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SMA01-3473)
  Report
  This report investigates how the State Children’s Health Insurance Program could be used to cover mental health and substance abuse services. 2001. 99 pp.
  
  
• Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services in Medicaid, 1995 (SMA02-3713)
  Report
  This report is intended to provide policy makers, interest groups, and others with basic information on mental health and substance abuse services and expenditures in Medicaid and associated trends. It presents statistics on user characteristics, service utilization, and expenditures for the non-elderly population in 10 selected States. 1995. 90 pp.
  
  
• Mental Health, United States, 1998 (SMA99-3285)
  Book/Monograph
  This book summarizes statistical information related to health care reform, including managed care and policy considerations, lessons learned from behavioral managed care approaches, and the status of managed behavioral health care in America. It includes information on epidemiological data, mental health in Medicare and Medicaid programs, and mental health services in rural areas. 249 pp (The full text of this document is available in hardcopy only, but the executive summary is available on-line.)
  
  
• Mental Health, United States, 2000 (SMA01-3537)
  Book/Monograph
  The preparation of Mental Health, United States, 2000 presented interesting challenges: How could we encapsulate the current status of mental health services for present and future readers? Of equal importance, how could we describe the current development of mental health statistics? To resolve these issues, we construct Section 1 with an editorial on likely future directions and a chapter on where the field has been over the past 100 years. These pieces set the essential context for Section 2, on the current status of mental health statistics; and Section 3, on the current status of mental health services. Each of these sections is new to Mental Health, United States, 2000. Section 4, as in all previous editions, updates the National statistical picture for mental health
  
  
• Mental Health, United States, 2002 (SMA04-3938)
  Book/Monograph
  Mental Health, United States, 2002
  
  
• Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon General - Full Report (SG-RPT)
  Report
  This report, the first of its kind, reflects an extensive review of scientific literature on mental health, as well as consultations with mental health care providers and consumers.
  
  
• New Freedom Commission on Mental Health, Achieving the Promise: Transforming Mental Health Care in America. Final Report (SMA03-3832)
  Report
  In February 2001, the New Freedom Initiative was announced to promote increased access to educational and employment opportunities for people with disabilities. The Commission's findings confirm that there are unmet needs and that many barriers impede care for people with mental illnesses. This report details those findings.
  
  
• State Mandates for Treatment for Mental Illness and Substance Use Disorders (SMA07-4228)
  Report
  This new report presents the results of a series of hour-long telephone interviews with State Medicaid directors or their designees in all 50 States and the District of Columbia, conducted in 2005-2006, that explored how State Medicaid agencies are addressing the organizational, funding, policy, management, and data issues that arise from their increased and often shared responsibilities for mental health services.
  
  
• Systems of Care Promising Practices in Children's Mental Health-For the Long Haul: Maintaining Systems of Care Beyond the Federal Investment, 2000 Series (Vol. 3) (CA-PROM00V3)
  Book/Monograph
  Fundamental strategies grantee sites should consider in order to maintain long-term financial stability, are discussed on this site. A special emphasis is placed on non-Federal funding sources.
  
  
• The Costs and Effects of Parity for Mental Health and Substance Abuse Insurance Benefits (MC99-80)
  Report
  This report presents findings from a project conducted by Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) on the costs and effects of providing parity for MH/SA benefits. 1999. 57 pp.
  
  
• The President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health's Interim Report to the President (NMH02-0144)
  Report
  This interim report summarizes the findings of the President’s New Freedom Commission on Mental Health. It illustrates some of the barriers to getting mental health services for a variety of people. 2002. 14 pp.
  
  
• Trends in Mental Health System Transformation The States Respond 2005 (SMA05-4115)
  Booklet
  
  

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