Responding to changes in state and federal laws, the BBA today announced the
latest revision of its 2004 Children's Mental Health Guide is nearing
completion. A public service initiative of the BBA's Children's Mental Health
Task Force and Children's Hospital
Boston, the How-To Guide to Children's Mental Health Services in
Massachusetts was created to address widespread problems of access to
services, funding for services and responsibility for care. The Guide,
written from an advocacy perspective, provides essential direction to parents
who do not know where to turn when their children begin to exhibit signs of
mental illness.
"The editorial board has consulted with key state agency personnel, and also
with child mental health advocacy organizations in preparing the revised guide
to reflect recent legal and programmatic changes affecting child mental health
services," said Editor-in-Chief of the Guide Michael Blau of
Foley & Lardner.
The Guide was previously revised in 2006 and 2009. The latest
edition of the Guide will be available online only, free of charge
and is expected to be released to the public in June 2011.