“The CMHI is designed to provide funding for communities to implement systems of care (Stroul, Blau, & Sondheimer, 2008). As of 2011, the CMHI has invested nearly $1.6 billion in grants to 173 communities in all 50 states, Puerto Rico, Guam, the District of Columbia, and 21 American Indian/Alaska Native communities. Initially providing funding in the form of 5-year demonstration grants, the legislation was revised to add a 6th year of funding, and the funding subsequently took the form of cooperative agreements (hereafter referred to collectively as grants). In addition to the program’s time-limited grants to support system reform and build service capacity, an increasingly explicit goal has been to develop systems of care that are sustained after the grants end and that have an impact on communities around the country whether or not they actually receive a grant. Such an impact has been achieved through developing effective strategies for implementing systems of care, collecting outcome data that demonstrate positive effects, building strong constituencies for systems of care, and widely disseminating the information that has been gathered.”
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