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Comprehensive Community Mental Health Services Program for
Children and Their Families
Louisiana
Child Mental Health Initiative – Louisiana Say YES to Children with Mental Health
Needs and Their Families
Louisiana-Youth Enhanced Services (LA-YES) for Children’s Mental Health
incorporates a comprehensive and coordinated system of care for children with
serious emotional and behavioral disorders. LA-YES provides a
community-based service system that is family friendly and culturally
competent. It has an administrative service organization (ASO) that has
oversight of the care management organizations that broker services through a
provider network. This network’s array of mental health, social, and
support services utilizes the LA-YES consortium and supports its goals of:
providing culturally competent social services; involving the community in all
levels of the delivery system; increasing access for the target population;
developing a comprehensive system of care; generalizing evidence-based
practices; providing early intervention and prevention of emotional and
behavioral problems; facilitating the provision of a broad array of mental
health and other related services, treatments, and supports; and increasing
awareness that mental illness affects children and youth. The initiative
focuses on reducing the barriers to an improved care system, which
include: racial and ethnic disparities, fragmentation of services, an
over-reliance on end-stage care, a lack of coverage, and agency-focused rather
than child-centered care.
LA-YES is in partnership with the Office of Mental Health and a community-based
consortium of youth with serious emotional and behavior disorders and their
families, public and nonprofit child-serving agencies, advocates, and public
officials. The consortium came together for the well- being of children
to address issues of capacity, the desire for quality services and the demand
for total systems reform. It has been in existence for over a year and is
weaving itself into the care community. LA-YES is energizing families and
care providers to confront the challenges and to create caring systems.
Susan Stromberg
Grantee Project Officer
1 Choke Cherry Road, Room 6-1050
Rockville, MD 20857
Phone: 240-276-1929
Fax: 240-276-1990
E-mail: susan.stromberg@samhsa.hhs.gov
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Cheryll Bowers-Stephens, M.D., MBA
Principal Investigator
Associate Medical Director for Children
State of Louisiana Department of Health
P.O. Box 4049
Baton Rouge, LA 70821-4049
Phone: 504-228-8997
Fax: 225-342-1984
E-mail: cstephen@dhh.la.gov
Web site: http://www.layes.org
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James Michael Rovaris, MSW, LCSW, BACS
Project Director
210 State Street, Cottage #4
New Orleans, LA 70118
Phone: 504-896-2639
Fax: 504-893-2637
E-mail: mrovaris@dhh.la.gov
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Richard Dalton, Ph.D.
Clinical Director
210 State Street, Cottage #4
New Orleans, LA 70018
Phone: 504-896-2636
Cell:504-494-5593
Fax: 504-896-2937
E-mail: rdalton@dhh.la.gov
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Joan Smith
Administrative Assistant
210 State Street, Cottage #4
New Orleans, LA 70018
Phone: 504-896-2636
Fax: 504-896-2937
E-mail: jsmith9@dhh.la.gov
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Michele Lempa
Evaluation Director
210 State Street, Cottage #4
New Orleans, LA 70018
Phone: 504-896-2661
Fax: 504-896-2937
E-mail: mlempa@dhh.la.gov
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Rhea Woods-Lockett
Family Coordinator
210 State Street, Cottage #4
New Orleans, LA 70018
Phone: 504-896-2660
Fax: 504-896-2937
E-mail: rwoodslo@dhh.la.gov
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Monique Caldwell
Youth Coordinator
210 State Street, Cottage #4
New Orleans, LA 70018
Phone: 504-896-2640
Fax: 504-896-2937
E-mail: mcaldwel@dhh.la.gov
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