LOUISIANA Community Mental Health Services Block Grant ...

Persons Receiving Services: The number of clients who received at least one service at a CMHC during
(CMHC only) the time period. This includes CONTACTS who are not admitted.
Unduplicated: Counts individual clients only once even if they appear multiple times during
the time period.
Duplicated: Duplicated counts episodes of care, where clients are counted multiple times
if they appear in the same time period multiple times.
Note: The duplicated number must always equal or be larger than the unduplicated number.
Adult Target Population
An adult who has a serious and persistent mental illness meets the following criteria for Age,
Diagnosis, Disability, and Duration.
Age: 18 years of age or older
Diagnosis: Severe non-organic mental illnesses including, but not limited to schizophrenia, schizoaffective
disorders, mood disorders, and severe personality disorders, that substantially interfere with
a person's ability to carry out such primary aspects of daily living as self-care, household
management, interpersonal relationships and work or school.
Disability: Impaired role functioning, caused by mental illness, as indicated by at least two of the
following functional areas:
1. Unemployed or has markedly limited skills and a poor work history, or if retired, is unable
to engage in normal activities to manage income.
2. Employed in a sheltered setting.
3. Requires public financial assistance for out-of-hospital maintenance (i.e., SSI) and/or is
unable to procure such without help; does not apply to regular retirement benefits.
4. Severely lacks social support systems in the natural environment (i.e., no close friends or
group affiliations, lives alone, or is highly transient).
5. Requires assistance in basic life skills (i.e., must be reminded to take medicine, must have
transportation arranged for him/her, needs assistance in household management tasks).
6. Exhibits social behavior which results in demand for intervention by the mental health
and/or judicial/legal system.
Duration: Must meet at least one of the following indicators of duration:
1. Psychiatric hospitalizations of at least six months in the last five years (cumulative total).
2. Two or more hospitalizations for mental disorders in the last 12 month period.
3. A single episode of continuous structural supportive residential care other than
hospitalization for a duration of at least six months.
4. A previous psychiatric evaluation or psychiatric documentation of treatment indicating a
history of severe psychiatric disability of at least six months duration.
OMH is in the process of revising and refining the definition of the Target Population to include such
things as clients‟ functional status.
Child/Youth Target Population
A child or youth who has an emotional/behavioral disorder meets the following criteria for Age,
Diagnosis, Disability, and Duration as agreed upon by all Louisiana child serving agencies.
PART C LOUISIANA FY 2011 PAGE 130
SECTION III: ADULT & CHILD/ YOUTH PLAN – CRITERION 2
MENTAL HEALTH SYSTEM DATA EPIDEMIOLOGY - INCIDENCE & PREVALENCE ESTIMATES