Children's Mental Health Program

Child Advocates is honored to announce that on Monday, May 2, it will officially begin new services as the single point of entry for youth and families who wish to explore eligibility for certain state-funded home and community-based mental health services.

Indiana’s Division of Mental Health and Addiction (DMHA) chose Child Advocates at the beginning of 2022, as its first, single statewide access site for DMHA’s High Fidelity Wraparound program, called the Children’s Mental Health Wraparound (CMHW). The program offers support and services to Hoosier children and youth who face serious mental health or behavioral challenges. For the first time, families will call just one phone number—211—which streamlines and starts the process to determine whether their child is eligible for the Child Mental Health Wraparound program.

**Content and information are provided directly by the Division of Mental Health and Addiction. Children’s Mental Health Wraparound is an Indiana Medicaid Program. 

The CMHW program is currently targeted to address the needs of youth with complex needs and/or in danger of out-of-home placement. The program utilizes a wraparound approach designed to keep children in their communities, producing better outcomes at a lower cost.

The eligibility requirements to receive CMHW services are:

• Child must be 6-17 years of age
• Child must live in the community
• Child must be eligible for Indiana Medicaid
• Child must have two qualifying mental health diagnoses
  • An assessment is required to determine eligibility by our knowledgeable family liaisons