Our Response to the recent Lawsuit

We have received a copy of a lawsuit alleging, "Mississippi forces mentally ill children through a lonely cycle of restrictive psychiatric facilities when community-based programs would better serve their needs", but have not had an opportunity to review it with legal counsel. It appears that Plaintiffs’ lawyers have overlooked the thousands of Mississippi children who do receive mental health services in the community setting. The lawyers also fail to point out the recognition that Medicaid’s MYPAC program, (a program that serves children in need of mental health services), has received for serving children in the community setting. In fact, earlier this year, MYPAC won an award for its outstanding service to children, so to ignore this important point seems a little disingenuous. We look forward to aggressively defending our position.