What is the CMH Waiver?
The Children’s Mental Health Waiver is a short-term home and community based waiver designed to provide a community-based mental health service alternative for youth with serious emotional disturbance who might otherwise be hospitalized and whose parents may be required to relinquish custody of their child in order for them to receive needed mental health treatment and services. The Children’s Mental Health waiver seeks to (1) prevent custody relinquishment in order for youth to receive mental health treatment;
(2) prevent or reduce the length of costly psychiatric hospital stays; and (3) provide a mechanism to offer mental health support services to youth with serious emotional disturbance and families in all regions of the state. The Children’s Mental Health Waiver is not a long-term care waiver.
Click here for details of the CMH Waiver
Woodbury County CMH Waiver Contact:
Tanya Petersen
CMH Waiver Case Manager 712-252-3871 ext. 256
Nicole Smith
CMH Waiver Case Manager 712-252-3871 ext. 255
DHS/ Children’s Mental Health Waiver website:
www.dhs.iowa.gov/rts/Start.htm
Becoming a CMH Waiver Provider:
http://www.ime.state.ia.us/Providers/Enrollment.html
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