Notes
1. Five percent of all children have a serious mental
disorder that results in extreme functional impairment, and 11 percent
have disorders that cause serious functional impairment. U.S. Department
of Health and Human Services. Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon General.
Rockville, MD: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Substance
Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Center for Mental Health
Services, National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Mental
Health, 1999.
2. Id.
3. The President’s New Freedom Commission on Mental
Health (October 29, 2002). Interim Report to the President. Available
at: www.MentalHealthCommission.gov.
4. The Federal Budget for Fiscal Year 2003, Department
of Health and Human Services, Washington, D.C., February, 2002.
5. Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law. Making
Sense of Medicaid for Children with Serious Emotional Disturbance.
Washington, D.C, 1999.
6. It should be noted that these focus groups preceded
the recent drastic budget cuts in Oregon, which significantly reduced
Medicaid coverage in that state.
7. Angold, A., Costello, E. J., Burns, B.J. et al. Effectiveness
of Nonresidential Specialty Mental Health Services for Children and Adolescents
in the “Real World.” Journal of American Academy of Child and
Adolescent Psychiatry, 39:2, 154-160 (2000).
8. Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, Disintegrating
Systems: The State of States’ Public Mental Health Systems. Washington,
D.C. 2001.
9. Funding Sources and Expenditures of State Mental Health
Agencies, Fiscal Year 1997. National Association of State Mental Health
Program Directors Research Institute, Inc., Alexandria, VA. July, 1999.
10. Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, Relinquishing
Custody: The Tragic Result of Failure to Meet Children’s Mental Health
Needs, Washington, D.C. 2000.
11. The President’s New Freedom Commission on Mental
Health (October 29, 2002). Interim Report to the President. Available
at: www.MentalHealthCommission.gov.
12. Barry Brauth. New York State Office of Mental Health.
(February 2002). Patient Characteristics Survey, 1997, Albany, NY.
13. Ralph Summer, Office of Mental Health and Addiction
Services, Oregon Department of Human Services. (February 2002). Oregon
Medicaid Enrollment, 2002, Salem, OR.
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