Early childhood mental health consultation grants established, protection-related rights for home and community-based services modified, day treatment program requirements modified, intensive rehabilitative mental health services modified, and reports required.

Summary

The bill authorizes the commissioner to award grants to counties, tribes, children’s collaboratives and mental‑health providers for a wide range of child mental‑health services, including a new early‑childhood consultation program for kids five and under. It also revises rules on home‑based service rights, day‑treatment programs, and intensive rehabilitative services, and adds reporting requirements. The goal is to keep children with mental illness in their families and communities while expanding provider capacity.

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