Public Children’s Mental Health Spending Averages $2,800: Rhode Island Spending The Highest At $8,083 Per Child Per Year

OPEN MINDS, The Behavioral Health & Social Service Industry Analyst Industry Statistics The average state mental health authority expenditures on children's mental health services was $2,889 per child per year in 2001, based upon a study of the state and county mental health authorities and Medicaid agencies. Rhode Island spending was the highest at $8,083 per child, with the states of Massachusetts, Maryland, Montana, and Vermont along with two counties in California also reporting expenditures above the mean. South Dakota reported the lowest expenditures at $234 per child. The median spending was $2,373 per child, and . . .