Training Institutes 2012 - National Technical Assistance Center for ...

Strategic Financing for Children’s Behavioral Health Services and
Systems of Care: Health Reform and Other Financing Opportunities
8:30 AM TUESDAY • 8:30 AM WEDNESDAY • SUN D
OBJECTIVES—Participants will learn:
1. To describe approaches for determining the broad policy, population, and service goals to guide financing redesign
2. To identify opportunities to improve and expand children’s behavioral health services within a system of care
approach in difficult economic times
3. To describe specific requirements and uses of a range of financing options for enhancing community services
4. How to analyze financing options for fit with their states or communities
5. To apply strategies from the experiences of other states to assist in developing financing and service models
This Pre-Institutes Training Program is designed for children’s behavioral health leaders and advocates to explore a
range of financing options for enhancing community services and supports and expanding system of care approaches.
The program will help participants to explore possibilities that are not yet being utilized for financing services and
supports for children, youth, and young adults with mental health and substance use challenges and their families.
The last few years have been difficult for state budgets and for the provision of publicly funded children’s behavioral
health services. However, this is not the time for children’s services leaders and advocates to be discouraged. There are
new opportunities to fund, and even expand, system of care approaches. The passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA),
new options through Medicaid and Title IV-E, the implementation of managed care technologies, and changes in the
Children’s Health Insurance Program and Early Childhood Home Visitation Programs offer opportunities for states to
use existing funding to organize services in new ways and bring system of care approaches to scale.
Redesigning financing to improve services and supports starts with setting state policy and service delivery goals for
populations of children with behavioral health needs. Faculty will discuss strategies to analyze current data, establish a
direction, set goals, and determine priorities to guide system redesign and financing, including utilizing ACA
provisions, Medicaid waiver and state plan amendment options, block grant funds, Title IV-E, and managed care. The
faculty includes national experts on financing and policy makers and administrators from the national, state, and local
levels who have implemented effective financing strategies. Small groups with be used to identify potential approaches
in participants’ states and communities. Participants will leave the training with a “library” of resources covering a
range of funding sources, how they can and are being used, and requirements for accessing them.
MODERATORS/PRESENTERS: Jim Wotring, M.S.W., Director, National Technical Assistance Center for
Children’s Mental Health, Georgetown University Center for Child and Human Development, Washington, DC;
Gary Macbeth, M.S.W., M.Ed., Senior Policy Associate, National Technical Assistance Center for Children’s
Mental Health, Georgetown University, Washington, DC
Doreen Cavanaugh, Ph.D., Research Associate Professor, Georgetown University Health Policy Institute, Georgetown
University, Washington, DC; Constance Conklin, L.M.S.W., Director or Programs for Children with a Serious
Emotional Disturbance, Mental Health Services to Children and Families, Michigan Department of Community Health,
Lansing, MI; Jeffrey Guenzel, M.A., L.P.C., Division Director, New Jersey Department of Children and Families, New
Jersey Division of Child Behavioral Health, Trenton, NJ; Jody Levison-Johnson, L.C.S.W., Director, Coordinated
System of Care, Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals, Baton Rouge, LA; Sheila Pires, M.P.A., Partner, Center
for Health Care Strategies, Inc., Human Service Collaborative, Washington, DC
RESOURCE PERSONS: Teresa King, Family Resource Specialist, National Federation of Families for Children’s
Mental Health, National Technical Assistance Center for Children’s Mental Health, Georgetown University Center for
Child and Human Development, Washington, DC; Sherry Peters, M.S.W., A.C.S.W., Director, Psychiatric Residential
Treatment Facility Waiver Initiative, National Technical Assistance Center for Children’s Mental Health, Georgetown
University Center for Child and Human Development, Washington, DC; Debra Cady, M.S.W., L.C.S.W., Director of
Child Welfare Policy, National Technical Assistance Center for Children’s Mental Health, Georgetown University Center
for Child and Human Development, Washington, DC
Training Institutes 2012
PRE-INSTITUTES TRAINING PROGRAM
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