PROGRAM OBJECTIVES:
To provide financial assistance to States and Territories to enable them to carry out the State's Plan for providing comprehensive community mental health services to adults with a serious mental illness and to children with a serious emotional disturbance; monitor the progress in implementing a comprehensive community based mental health system; provide technical assistance to States and the Mental Health Planning Council that will assist the States in planning and implementing a comprehensive community based mental health system.

 ELIGIBLE FUNCTIONAL CATEGORIES:
1. HEALTH;
- Mental Health;

 WHO CAN BENEFIT FROM THIS PROGRAM:
- State;
- U.S. Territories;

 WHO CAN APPLY:
- State (includes District of Columbia, public institutions of higher education and hospitals);
- U.S. Territories and possessions (includes institutions of higher education and hospitals);