What happens to community mental health centers when federal funding declines and then
ends? Analysis of service utilization patterns over a five year period for a cohort of …

Community mental health centers are subject to a number of pressures that will affect the
way centers operate in the years ahead. These influences include a reduction infederal …

Many community mental health centers have bad to operate with less funding in the past
several years, especially since the advent of block grant funding. Evidence is now …

CHAPTER reviews the community mental health system in the United States, specifically
some of the key issues facing the field and how it has evolved over the decades since …

The orignal intent of community mental health centers was that they would treat the mentally
ill. The more than 750 centers now operating are drifting away from that health service …

• The impact of community mental health centers on the utilization of psychiatric services in
Monroe County, New York, was evaluated by means of data from the Monroe County …

Community mental health centers (CMHCs) have made a significant contribution to making
mental health services available to many Americans; in 1977 they served almost two million …

There are now 675 funded community mental health centers (CMHCs), covering almost half
the country. Many of these programs were funded in the social optimism of the 1960s and …

To test the success of the Community Mental Health Centers Program goal of reducing state
hospital utilization, changes in state mental hospital resident and admission rates were …

In this progress report on the community mental health centers program, the Director of the
National Institute of Mental Health reviews existing patterns of support, community …