Newsletter Articles | October 31, 2002
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 . . .