Matching for Sustainability: A Guide for Communities Funded Through the Comprehensive Community Mental Health Services for Children and their FamiliesProgram

January 1, 2004 The goal of this guide is to assist states and communities in improving their strategies for raising the required non-federal matching funds for the Comprehensive Community Mental Health Services for Children and their Families Program.1 Sustainability is critical to the success of any systems reform effort and is therefore vital to the projects funded under this program. The first step to sustainability is for the funded sites to be able to raise the non-federal matching funds required under the law. This Guide: Summarizes federal rules on non-federal matching funds (from the law, regulations . . .