HHS Mississippi Demonstration Project - For five years, starting in 1998: "In Mississippi, the State and HHS have in recent years developed a Partnership Initiative to improve the state's child protective system. Under the new demonstration, Mississippi will expand eligibility for federal child welfare services. Child welfare funds will be spent for items or services that will eliminate or reduce harm to children in crisis. The state will build "child-focused, family-centered" case management teams that will work together across agency and discipline lines. These teams will provide services that may include respite care, family counseling, parenting training, medical care, child care, transportation, and tutoring. The demonstration will be tested in eight counties: Forrest, Holmes, Jones, Lamar, Madison, Pearl River, Rankin, and Yazoo."