Abstract The 18-year Community Mental Health Center (CMHC) Program of the National
Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) was a complex and ambitious social experiment. This …

With Pre sident Kennedy's signature on October 31, 1963, the bill to create a national
Community Mental Health Centers Program became law. The first community mental health …

The community mental health center (CMHC) movement provoked controversy and debate
from its inception. This paper establishes a context for further assessments of the impact of …

Presents a collection of 11 papers on the philosophical and social aspects of community
mental health centers (CMHCs). Reviews of the literature on community health and …

Consultation services offered by community mental health centers (CMHC) have gone
through several significant changes since the signing of the Community Mental Health …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …