PROGRAM OBJECTIVES:
To provide community-based systems of care for children and adolescents with a serious emotional disturbance and their families. The program will ensure that services are provided collaboratively across child-serving systems; that each child or adolescent served through the program receives an individualized service plan developed with the participation of the family (and, where appropriate, the child); that each individualized plan designates a case manager to assist the child and family; and that funding is provided for mental health services required to meet the needs of youngsters in these systems.

 ELIGIBLE FUNCTIONAL CATEGORIES:
1. HEALTH;
- Alcoholism, Drug Abuse and Mental Health - General;
- Alcoholism, Drug Abuse and Mental Health - Planning;

 WHO CAN BENEFIT FROM THIS PROGRAM:
- Physically Afflicted (e.g. TB, Arthritis, Heart Disease);
- Mentally Disabled;
- Infant (0-5);
- Child (6-15);
- Youth (16-21);

 WHO CAN APPLY:
- State (includes District of Columbia, public institutions of higher education and hospitals);
- Local (includes State-designated Indian Tribes, excludes institutions of higher education and hospitals);