State Mental Health Policy: Overview and Goals of the Mississippi Youth Programs Around the Clock (MYPAC)

This column briefly outlines the Mississippi Youth Programs Around the Clock (MYPAC) Demonstration Project. MYPAC is a federally funded effort to examine community-based alternatives to residential placement for youths with severe emotional disturbance. The project is one of ten similarly structured...

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Published inPsychiatric services (Washington, D.C.) Vol. 59; no. 8; pp. 836 - 838
Main Authors Young, John, Plotner, Kristi, Damon, John D, Hight, Terry L
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States American Psychiatric Association 01.08.2008
American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc
Subjects
Children & youth
Community health care
Community Mental Health Centers
Financing, Government - economics
Health care policy
Health Policy
Mental health care
Mississippi
Organizational Objectives
Outcome Assessment (Health Care) - methods
Program Development
State Government
Mississippi
United States > US
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Summary:This column briefly outlines the Mississippi Youth Programs Around the Clock (MYPAC) Demonstration Project. MYPAC is a federally funded effort to examine community-based alternatives to residential placement for youths with severe emotional disturbance. The project is one of ten similarly structured grants awarded nationally and is among the first to reach implementation. Because such a large amount of funding has been dedicated to such a substantial cross-section of national public mental health services ($66,000,000 in Mississippi alone), it is important to make the field aware of developments in these projects as they occur.
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ISSN:1075-2730
1557-9700
DOI:10.1176/ps.2008.59.8.836