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Test your knowledge about Mental Health services in Connecticut
September 2002

1. Of the estimated 600,000 adults and 85,000 children in Connecticut reported to suffer from mental illness each year, how many receive any form of public or privately funded treatment? :

a) About half
b) One fourth
c) Two thirds
d) All of them

2. In 2000 how many Connecticut children were placed in out-of-state residential facilities because the services they required were not available here?:

a) 1000
b) 500
c) 50
d) 350

3. "Gridlock" in hospital settings of the mental health system is a result of

a) Lack of sufficient community services for adults
b) Cost containment efforts related to managed care
c) Closure of two major state hospitals in the past four years and cuts in services by Connecticut’s general hospitals
d) All of the above

4. Responsibility for children’s mental health services in Connecticut resides with:

a) The Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services (DMHAS)
b) The Department of Children and Families (DCF)
c) Office of Policy and Management (OPM)
d) Department of Social Services (DSS)

5. During FY 1999 how many adults receiving mental health services in a Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services setting were also being treated for one or more substance use disorders?

a) 1 in 6
b) 2 in 4
c) 1 in 10
d) 9 in 10

Source: Report of the Governor’s Blue Ribbon Commission on Mental Health, July 2000

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