Abstract The Washington State Mental Health Outcome Study was intended (a) to collect
descriptive data on the status of a cross-sectional sample of the client caseload in state …

Efforts of one community mental health center to develop a system of program evaluation
designed to meet criteria mandated by recent Federal legislation are described. This …

16. Abstracts This report is a scries of working papers on Community Mental Health
Programs; the report endeavors to present information regarding program evaluation in four …

Policy changes in the 1980s have altered the financial status of community mental health
centers. Directors have operated, in most cases, with fewer resources than in past decades …

The charts of patients who received an initial assessment at a rural mental health center
were reviewed to identify patient, system, and clinical characteristics that predicted return to …

One of the major social programs of the 1960s was the development of community mental
health centers. As with most early attempts at evaluation, the results were pessimistic. This …

Historically, the status of mental health services in the United States has depended upon the
economic stability of the nation; much of the financial support of these programs has come …

Describes methods of self-evaluation, quality assurance, and external evaluation developed
by the National Institutes of Mental Health to aid community mental health services delivery …

A CONlRACl with the National Institute of Mental Health, in 1969 the Connecticut Mental
Health Center at Yale University initiated a project to develop techniques for utilization …

A list of 53 mental health programs and services was presented to community samples of
county commissioners and mental health board members, mental health program …