Center for Mental Health Services

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The Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS) is a unit of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) witin the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

US government-supported group. It describes its role as:

"CMHS leads Federal efforts to treat mental illnesses by promoting mental health and by preventing the development or worsening of mental illness when possible. Congress created CMHS to bring new hope to adults who have serious mental illnesses and to children with serious emotional disorders".

The director of CMHS is A. Kathryn Power.

See also: anti-psychiatry, E. Fuller Torrey

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