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Protection and Advocacy for Individuals with Mental Illness

$433,369,763

Total Assistance, FY 2008 to Present
Agency: SUBSTANCE ABUSE AND MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES ADMINISTRATION, HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF
Assistance Type: FORMULA GRANTS
Popular Name: (PAIMI)
Assistance Listing Number
93.138

Objectives: To enable the expansion of the Protection and Advocacy system established in each State to: (1) Protect and advocate the rights of individuals with mental illness; (2) investigate incidents of abuse and neglect of individuals with mental illness if the incidents are reported to the system or if there is probable cause to believe that the incidents occurred; (3) investigate incidents of serious injury and deaths in public and private care and treatment facilities and non-medical community-based facilities for children and youth; and (4) to receive reports of all serious injuries and deaths related to incidents of seclusion and restraint in public and private care and treatment facilities in the States and Territories.

 
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