5042-5000 Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services

For child and adolescent services, including funding for the Massachusetts child psychiatry access program and including the costs of psychiatric and related services provided to children and adolescents determined to be medically ready for discharge from acute hospital units or mental health facilities and who are experiencing unnecessary delays in being discharged due to the lack of more appropriate settings; provided, that for the purpose of funding these services, the commissioner of mental health may allocate funds from the amount appropriated in this item to other departments within the executive office of health and human services; and provided further, that $6,000,000 may be expended for the department's emergency room diversion initiative to stabilize youth in crisis