Improving the quality and cost-effectiveness of publicly financed health care
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.
| Title and Description | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|
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 |