Children's Behavioral Health

Multiple public agencies often have overlapping roles in children’s behavioral health services. Children with behavioral or emotional problems can benefit from coordinated care management approaches that integrate the delivery of physical and behavioral health services. CHCS works with state child welfare agencies and health plans to better integrate behavioral and physical health services and supports, with a particular focus on children in foster care.

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Improving Medicaid Managed Care for Youth with Serious Behavioral Health Needs: A Quality Improvement Toolkit This toolkit shares promising practices tested by plans participating in CHCS' Collaborative on Improving Managed Care Quality for Youth with Serious Behavioral Health Needs, an initiative designed to improve care for children and youth, and the resulting impact on access, care, and avoidance of unnecessary services and costs.	September 2009	Toolkits
Medicaid Managed Care for Children in Child Welfare This issue brief examines the complex physical and behavioral health care needs and associated costs for children in child welfare and outlines critical opportunities and challenges within Medicaid to better manage care for this high-risk, high-cost population.	April 2008	Policy & Issue Briefs
The Use of Psychotropic Medications for Children Involved in Child Welfare During this webinar, participants heard from Dr. Peter Jensen about evidence-based and promising practices related to the use of psychotropic medication among children involved in child welfare.	February 2008	Webinar Resources
Improving Outcomes for Children Involved in Child Welfare This national collaborative is working with 9 managed care organizations to improving the delivery of physical and mental health care for children in child welfare.	January 2007	Initiative
Public Financing of Home and Community Services for Children and Youth with Serious Emotional Disturbances This report, prepared by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office of Disability, Aging and Long-Term Care Policy (DALTCP), and Mathematica Policy Research details public financing mechanisms that states use to pay for intensive home and community services for children and youth with SED	June 2006	Reports
ValueOptions New Jersey: Shortening Residential Care Stays for Teens Through CHCS' Best Clinical and Administrative Practices workgroup Improving Managed Care Quality for Adolescents with Serious Behavioral Health Disorders, ValueOptions New Jersey set a goal to identify and reduce the number of children remaining in out-of-home treatment settings who are ready to be discharged.	February 2006	Case Studies
L.A. Care Health Plan: Bridging the Language Gap L.A. Care Health Plan, through CHCS' BCAP initiative to Improve Health Care Quality for Racially and Ethnically Diverse Populations, focused on improving asthma medication adherence among its members who speak limited or no English by enhancing the delivery of pharmacy services to these populations.	May 2005	Case Studies
Children's Mental Health Benchmarking Report The report, by Dougherty Management Associates, tracks children's mental health data in four areas: access, utilization, expenditures, and intersystem involvement.	March 2005	Reports
Promising Approaches in Behavioral Health Services: Family Involvement in Managed Care Systems This paper focuses on promising approaches and strategies related to family involvement in managed care systems in three states. These promising approaches include both statewide approaches focused on a total population (New Jersey Partnership for Children), (Massachusetts Behavioral Health Partnership) and a local site (Delaware County, PA) focused on a specific geographic area.	September 2004	Resource Papers
Psychiatric Readmission of Adolescents in the Public Mental Health System This Resource Paper evaluates the effect of Maryland's Medicaid behavioral health plan on patterns of psychiatric readmission of adolescents.	January 2004	Resource Papers
Partnership for Children Reinvents the House Call for At-Risk Kids The Partnership for Children, New Jersey's system of care initiative under the Department of Human Services, is reinventing the house call for one of the most vulnerable populations served by publicly financed health care - children with serious behavioral and mental health problems.	December 2003	Case Studies
Contracting for Coordination of Behavioral Health Services in Privatized Child Welfare and Medicaid Managed Care This Resource Paper explores the issue of coordination between privatized child welfare initiatives and Medicaid managed care systems for the delivery of behavioral health care services for children and families in the child welfare system.	June 2003	Resource Papers
Improving Age Appropriate Mental Health Services: Young Adults Speak Out For young adults suffering from severe mental illness, turning 18 can mean the end of the line for essential mental health services. Consumer Quality Initiatives, Inc. (CQI), a consumer-run research and evaluation organization in Massachusetts, and a CHCS Consumer Action grantee, addressed the gap in services in the public mental health system by surveying young adults who aged out of public adolescent mental health services in Massachusetts. The findings and recommended solutions are in the report, Voices of Youth in Transition.	March 2003	Case Studies
Promising Approaches in Behavioral Health Services: A View from the Child Welfare System This Resource Paper provides strategies from three states about how to meet the behavioral health needs of children in the child welfare system and their families within managed care systems.	March 2003	Resource Papers
Promising Approaches in Behavioral Health: Making Interagency Initiatives Work for Children and Families in Welfare This paper discusses promising approaches and special provisions in successful interagency initiatives that include child welfare systems in planning, funding, implementing, and evaluating the initiative.	March 2003	Resource Papers
Promising Approaches in Behavioral Health: Managed Care Design and Financing This paper describes seven managed care design and financing approaches that incorporate features that support effective service delivery for children and adolescents with behavioral health treatment needs and their families.	November 2002	Resource Papers
The STAR Bridge Project: Linking Health and Social Services for Children with Special Needs and Their Families Recognizing the need to bridge the gap between behavioral health, physical health, and social services for children with special needs and their families in Medicaid managed care, People in Partnership, a nonprofit community-based organization in Houston, Texas, developed the STAR Bridge Project.	March 2001	Case Studies
Children in Managed Care Program This program assists public child-serving systems to become better coordinated and more effective as the use of managed care within those systems becomes more prevalent, and more family-centered.	January 1997	Initiative