Community Mental Health Settlement Agreement
Community Mental Health Settlement Agreement
The Community Mental Health Agreement (CMHA) is a landmark settlement agreement to help people diagnosed with serious mental illness live successfully in the community rather than institutions.
Know Your Rights
According to the CMHA, New Hampshire must provide community-based services and supports to people who would otherwise be unnecessarily institutionalized at New Hampshire Hospital or the Glencliff Nursing Home.
The community-based resources in the CMHA include mobile crisis teams and crisis apartments, assertive community treatment (ACT), permanent supported housing (e.g., the Bridge Housing Subsidy), supported employment, and peer and family supports. Compliance with the CMHA is monitored by an Expert Reviewer, who summarizes his findings in semi-annual reports.
The Fifteenth Expert Reviewer Report was issued on January 25, 2022
Past Expert Reviewer Reports are available below.
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[resource] => Expert Reviewer Report Number Two (June 30, 2015)
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[resource] => Expert Reviewer Report Number Three (Jan. 5, 2016)
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[resource] => Expert Reviewer Report Number Four (June 29, 2016)
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[resource] => Expert Reviewer Report Number Five (Jan. 6, 2017)
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[resource] => Expert Reviewer Report Number Six (June 30, 2017)
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[resource] => Expert Reviewer Report Number Seven (Jan. 10, 2018)
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[resource] => Expert Reviewer Report Number Eight (July 23, 2018)
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[resource] => Expert Reviewer Report Number Nine (Jan 21, 2019)
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[resource] => Expert Reviewer Report Number Ten (Sept 10, 2019)
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[resource] => Expert Reviewer Report Number Eleven (Jan 28, 2020).
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[resource] => Expert Reviewer Report Number Twelve (Aug 18, 2020)
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[resource] => Expert Reviewer Report Number Thirteen (Jan 27, 2021)
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Past Expert Reviewer Reports
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[resource] => Summary of Reasons for Reforms of NH’s Mental Health System and Olmstead Suit
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[resource] => Notice of Proposed Class Action Settlement
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[resource] => Joint Motion for Preliminary Approval of Proposed Class Action Settlement
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[resource] => Letter from US Assistant Attorney General Perez to NH Attorney General Delaney (Dec. 9, 2011)
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Case Documents (Amanda D. v. Hassan)
Please visit our Amanda D v. Hassan page for more information about this case.
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