Community Mental Health System Law and Legal Definition
Community mental health system is the system intended to provide a community based public mental health services to those people who needs assistance in the communities where they reside. Development of the community mental health system can be traced to enactment of the Community Mental Health Centers Act of 1964 (CMHA).CMHA provided grants to states for the establishment of local mental health centers, under the overview of the National Institute of Mental Health. The purpose of the CMHA was to provide for community-based care, as an alternative to institutionalization.
Legal Definition list
- Community Mental Health Act
- Community Learning Center [Education]
- Community Initiative
- Community Income
- Community Housing Development Organization [HUD]
- Community Mental Health System
- Community of Democracies and Community
- Community of Interest
- Community Oriented Policing Services [COPS]
- Community Partnership
- Community Patent Convention
Related Legal Terms
- 9-1-1 System
- Abuses of Governmental Power Identified Under “Watergate”
- Accelerated Benefits (Health Care)
- Accelerated Cost Recovery System
- Accumulation Value (Health Care)
- Action Levels (Environmental Law)
- Active Solar System
- Actual Age (Health Care)
- Actuarial Equivalent (Health Care)
- Actuarially Sound Retirement System
