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Improving Medicaid Managed Care for Youth with Serious Behavioral Health Needs: A Quality Improvement ToolkitThis 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 WelfareThis 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 WelfareDuring 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 WelfareThis 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 DisturbancesThis 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 TeensThrough 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 GapL.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 ReportThe 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 SystemsThis 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 SystemThis 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 KidsThe 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 CareThis 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 OutFor 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 SystemThis 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 WelfareThis 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 FinancingThis 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 FamiliesRecognizing 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 ProgramThis 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 |