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The Virginia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services is a state agency of the Commonwealth of Virginia. The department operates Virginia's public mental health, intellectual disability and substance abuse services system through a system of 40 locally and regionally run community services boards and which serve children and adults who have or who are at risk of mental illness, serious emotional disturbance, intellectual disability, or substance use disorders.
Of the 13 state-run facilities, eight are mental health facilities, two are training centers to serve individuals with intellectual disability, one is a psychiatric facility for children and adolescents, one is a medical center, one is a psychiatric geriatric hospital and one is a center for behavioral rehabilitation. For placement in state facilities, patients are initially evaluated and referred from local CSBs.