Basic Tasks in Developing a Community Mental Health Center
Abstract
The authors provide guidelines, based on their own experiences, for planners of community mental health centers. They emphasize the need for sound management principles, and they describe and illustrate five basic tasks in developing a community mental health center: creating an organization, designing a service delivery system, obtaining community sanction, developing trusting relationships with funding agencies, and developing responsive programs.
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