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

INSTITUTES
• Population-focused planning for a CME approach, including use of utilization and expenditure data from across
systems to identify potential populations of children and youth for CME involvement
• Rate structuring and financing approaches, including cross-agency financing
• Uses of Medicaid, including options such as 1915(i), 1915(c), and 1915(a), and approaches to embedding CMEs into
the larger delivery system
• The role of family and youth peer partners and strategies for developing, financing, and sustaining family and youth
peer capacity
The Institute will include segments from a video featuring states using a CME approach. Participants will also have
opportunity to share their own experiences in planning and implementing CMEs. The Institute will offer the
perspectives of a family member involved in the development of a CME approach; a Medicaid administrator; a child
welfare administrator; a director for a federal grant supporting a three-state CME Quality Collaborative; and a national
expert on organizing and financing delivery systems for children involved in multiple systems.
MODERATOR/PRESENTER: Sheila Pires, M.P.A., Partner, Human Service Collaborative, Washington, DC
Nichole Anderson, Assistant Deputy for Policy and Legislation, Wyoming Department of Family Services, Cheyenne, WY
Brian Dowd, Program Director Waiver Programs, Medicaid/Aging and Special Populations, Department of Community
Health Georgia, Atlanta, GA
Deborah Harburger, M.S.W., L.G.S.W., Director, Fiscal Strategy Unit, The Institute for Innovation and
Implementation, University of Maryland School of Social Work, Baltimore, MD
Dana McCrary, Parent & Youth Peer Specialist Coordinator, Children’s Health Insurance Reauthorization Act (CHIPRA),
Office of Medicaid Coordination, Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities, Atlanta, GA
RESOURCE PERSON: Dayana Simons, M.Ed., Senior Program Officer, Center for Health Care Strategies, Inc.,
Hamilton, NJ
INSTITUTE #4 1:30 PM THURSDAY • 8:30 AM SATURDAY • SUN C
Through the Looking Glass: Implementing Wraparound Practice
Through the Lens of Implementation Science
OBJECTIVES—Participants will learn:
1. To describe the core theories and concepts of implementation science
2. To discuss how implementation science is applied to successful implementation of systems of care and the
wraparound practice model
3. How to use the lens of implementation science to learn specific strategies to address the major implementation
issues often associated with implementing wraparound, such as assessing and improving system and organizational
supports; staff selection; staff training, coaching, and supervision; and evaluation and continuous quality improvement
4. To identify and address implementation barriers and implementation support needs in their own local or state system
of care.
This Institute will provide a new, research-based perspective that can help prioritize and select strategies that will
facilitate successful implementation of the wraparound practice model for youth with the most serious and complex
needs in systems of care. Faculty will provide participants with an overview of the science of implementing evidencedbased
and promising practices relevant to systems of care and wraparound. They will also describe specific
implementation drivers and how they impact practice.
Each implementation driver will be based on work of the National Wraparound Initiative (www.nwi.pdx.edu) and/or
linked to a specific method through which the University of Maryland’s Institute for Innovation and Implementation has
ensured high-quality implementation of wraparound and the necessary services that must be in place to support
wraparound teamwork.
The faculty will walk participants through the looking glass by applying implementation science to wraparound
implementation. Specific topics to be covered include:
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