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红领巾瓜报 (红领巾瓜报) has partnered with the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors (NASMHPD) Technical Assistance Coalition to produce a series of briefs that characterize the opportunities to improve coordination of services for children.

In this brief, 鈥淪tate Policy and Practice Recommendations to Advance Improvements in Children鈥檚 Behavioral Health,鈥� the 红领巾瓜报 team of Caitlin Thomas-Henkel, Uma Ahluwalia, Heidi Arthur and Annalisa Baker, and Devon Schechinger address key issues and highlighted practice recommendations that are designed to bring forth systems change and raise awareness at the state level. This brief provides state policymakers and behavioral health leaders with a vision for coordinating and optimizing services to promote mental health well-being, prevent behavioral health conditions, and ensure access to a coordinated continuum of behavioral healthcare.

红领巾瓜报 (红领巾瓜报) has partnered with the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors (NASMHPD) Technical Assistance Coalition to produce a series of briefs that characterize the opportunities to improve coordination of services for children with behavioral health needs.

鈥�The Role of Specialized Manage Care,鈥� written by 红领巾瓜报 experts, Heidi Arthur, Angela Bergefurd, Caitlin Thomas-Henkel and Uma Ahluwalia, focuses on addressing the intersection of child welfare reform and health transformation. This issue brief explains how specialized Medicaid managed care plans can ensure better alignment between child welfare and behavioral healthcare services. The role of special needs plans for the delivery of coordinated care is emphasized and the opportunities to leverage specialty managed care plans by states are highlighted.

红领巾瓜报 (红领巾瓜报) has partnered with the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors (NASMHPD) Technical Assistance Coalition to produce a series of briefs that characterize the opportunities to improve coordination of services for children.

In this brief, 鈥�Improving Outcomes for Children in Crisis with Evidence-Based Tools,鈥� the 红领巾瓜报 team of experts which include Rachel Bembas, Lauren Niles, Caitlin Thomas-Henkel and Uma Ahluwalia, outline limitations of current pediatric quality measures and several approaches to measure and track goals and objectives while offering a call to action at both the state and local levels. The brief calls on federal, state, and local entities, payers, provider organizations, and community-based organizations to collectively take steps to bolster and improve existing standardized monitoring, evaluation, and quality measurement efforts for youth mental health.

红领巾瓜报 (红领巾瓜报) has partnered with the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors (NASMHPD) Technical Assistance Coalition to produce a series of briefs that characterize the opportunities to improve coordination of services for children.

The significance of caregiver support for healthy early childhood outcomes is highlighted in this brief 鈥�Early Childhood Mental Health: The Importance of Caregiver Support in Promoting Healthy Child Development and Clinical Interventions for Children written by 红领巾瓜报 experts Christina Altmayer, Caitlin Thomas-Henkel and Uma Ahluwalia. This brief explores the role of Medicaid in advancing early childhood child mental health outcomes, the importance of caregiver support in promoting healthy child development, and innovative practices aimed at increasing access to supports.

红领巾瓜报 (红领巾瓜报) has partnered with the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors (NASMHPD) Technical Assistance Coalition to produce a series of briefs that characterize the opportunities to improve coordination of services for children.

Connecting Schools to the Larger Youth Behavioral Health System: Early Innovations from California focuses on the role schools can play in ensuring that children and youth get the behavioral healthcare they need.聽 Written by 红领巾瓜报 experts, Michael Butler, Ilia Rolon, Caitlin Thomas-Henkel and Uma Ahluwalia, this brief outlines California鈥檚 innovative approach to expanding access while describing the lessons learned and potential implications for other states.

Lifting Voices is an initiative developed to inform the transformation of the youth behavioral health care system. The project leaders are parents of children who nearly died on multiple occasions from severe behavioral health conditions, and they are professionals with a deep understanding of the opportunities and challenges faced by behavioral health care policy makers and reformers. They share the belief that their knowledge, desperation, and resources afforded their children access to interventions that should be accessible to every youth who needs them. Their experience of the care delivery system has also inspired their commitment to highlight the urgent improvements necessary to support struggling children and parents affected by the nation鈥檚 youth behavioral health crisis.

To learn more about Lifting Voices, see the October 2023 report here.

红领巾瓜报 Principals and behavioral health policy and practice transformation consultants Heidi Arthur, LMSW and Ellen Breslin, MPP partnered with Sheilah Gauch, LISW, M.Ed., Principal and Clinical Director with the Dearborn Academy and Echo Lustig, B.A., young adult behavioral health advocate, to share findings from the first phase of the three-part Lifting Voices initiative at Putting Care at the Center, the annual conference of the Camden Coalition鈥檚聽National Center for Complex Health and Social Needs Initiative. See: Putting Care at the Center 2023, Elevating behavioral health in whole-person care. Boston, MA, November 1-3, 2023. Please look for us at the Beehive poster station on:

1. Thursday, November 2 from 2:45 pm – 4:30 pm ET
2. Friday, November 3 from 8:45 am – 10:30 am ET