Tennessee: Study of Children and Youth Mental Health Needs in Tennessee

Senate Joint Resolution 799, passed unanimously by the House and Senate and signed by the governor, directs the Select Committee on Children and Youth to study the children's mental health system and develop recommendations by April 1, 2008.

Core partners include legislators, the state Mental Health Department, Tennessee Commission on Children and Youth, Governor's Office of Children's Care Coordination, state departments of Children's Services and Education, TVC, families, providers, advocates and the state Comptroller's Office.

(SJR799, TN, 2006)

Read the bill: http://www.tennessee.gov/tccy/leg-sc-ir.pdf