Children's Mental Health

Mission: To improve and support the maximum level of functioning for children
with a severe emotional disorder and their families within their home and community through
the promotion of agency collaboration, coordination, integrated funding and service system
change that provides culturally competent, flexible, non-traditional, wraparound services
and funding to children and their families.

General Target Population

Youth 0 - 17 years old, with a severe emotional disorder (as defined by statute), that is receiving services from more than one collaborative member agency (if one member agencies is a school district, the youth needs to be in special services in the district.)

Specific subgroup target populations:

•	Youth 10-15 years old and at risk for placement.
•	Youth 10-17 years old with a history of violent behavior.
•	Youth 0-17 years old who have been denied TEFRA eligibility and or who would have been eligible under the old TEFRA criteria.

Collaborative Broad-Based Goals

•	Improve and support the maximum level of functioning for children and adolescents with a severe emotional disorder.
•	Increase the level of safety for communities and families with children and adolescents with a severe emotional disorder.
•	Increase the effectiveness and integration of services that are community based and culturally competent provided by the Collaborative for children and adolescents with severe emotional disorders.

Family and Children's Mental Health Case Management Services

Criteria for Case Management Services

The child has one of the following as determined by a mental health professional:

•	Psychosis or a clinical depression; or
•	Risk of harming self or others as a result of an emotional disturbance; or
•	Psychopathological symptoms as a result of being a victim of physical or sexual abuse or of psychic trauma within the past year; or
•	The child, as a result of an emotional disturbance, has significantly impaired home, school, or community functioning that has lasted at least one year or that, in the written opinion of a mental health professional, presents substantial risk of lasting at least one year. (M.S. 245.4871, Subd. 6)