OPEN MINDS The Behavioral Health & Social Service Industry Analyst Industry News Options Mental Health, based in Norfolk, Virginia, has been selected by The Prudential to provide managed behavioral health services in the Tidewater and Peninsula areas of Virginia. Terms of the five-year contract, which will be effective on January 1, 1992, were not disclosed. The first group to receive services under the new contract will be Bell Atlantic’s 3,500 covered lives in Virginia. .