Mental health programs

Mental health programs are projects set up to improve mental health often in community settings. Examples of such activity include:


 * Crisis intervention services
 * Deinstitutionalization
 * Home visiting programs
 * Hotline services
 * Outreach programs
 * Primary mental health prevention
 * Suicide prevention centers

The program development of such activities affecting health care delivery can involve issues around:
 * Community mental health training
 * Mental health inservice training
 * Mental health program evaluation
 * Health care administration

These programs can be run from a variety of Health care services:
 * Child guidance clinics
 * Community mental health centres
 * Community mental health services
 * Psychiatric clinics