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

INSTITUTES
• How the CFS can be the core of a local program evaluation and research
• Why combining an evidenced-based treatment with CFS may provide the best treatment
• Issues in implementing CFS from clinician, supervisor, and management perspectives.
A demonstration of the system will be provided, and participants will be able to access the system using iPads and laptops. The
faculty includes the perspectives of researchers, clinicians, supervisors, and a director of a statewide mental health system.
MODERATOR/PRESENTER: Len Bickman, Ph.D., Professor for Psychology, Psychiatry and Public Policy,
Director, Center for Evaluation and Program Improvement, Peabody College at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
Nicole Attong, Project Director, FACES, South Florida Behavioral Health Network, Miami, FL
Bill Reay, Ph.D., Director, President and CEO, OMNI Behavioral Health, Professor of Psychology, Northcentral
University, Omaha, NE
Thomas Sexton, Ph.D., A.B.P.P., Professor & Director, Center for Adolescent and Family Studies, Indiana University,
Bloomington, IN
RESOURCE PERSON: Susan Douglas Kelley, Ph.D., Center for Evaluation and Program Improvement, Peabody
College at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
INSTITUTE #16 8:30 AM FRIDAY • 1:30 PM SATURDAY • OSCEOLA 1-2
Sustainable Financing Strategies for Early Childhood Mental Health Services
OBJECTIVES—Participants will learn:
1. To implement strategies for funding early childhood mental health services and supports based upon successful
efforts across four communities
2. To identify concrete steps for implementing a “crosswalk” between the DC:0-3R diagnostic tool for young children
and the ICD:9CM in order to effectively bill public and private insurers
3. To use a finance mapping tool and process to identify and pursue potential funding sources for clinical services,
family/caregiver support, and other essential elements of an early childhood system of care
4. To apply current funding opportunities to support early childhood mental health services
This Institute will focus on creative strategies for financing early childhood mental health (ECMH) services and
supports. The session will provide a brief overview of critical elements to fund in order to achieve a high-quality,
sustainable early childhood system and will then explore in-depth an array of approaches for putting these elements into
place locally.
The session will highlight strategies for braiding public and private dollars to finance clinical services; securing
Medicaid funding to support families of young children with mental health issues; fostering strategic partnerships to
infuse ECMH into existing child- and family-serving systems; accessing funding for clinical services through
Medicaid’s Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnosis and Treatment Program (EPSDT); amending language in the state
Medicaid plan to accommodate dyadic work; and implementing a “crosswalk” to facilitate billing when using the DC:0-
3R diagnostic tool for infants and young children.
The information and financing strategies to be presented are based upon the work of four systems of care serving young
children and their families. These communities include Sarasota, Florida, and Los Angeles, California, each of which
has taken a different, but effective approach to billing for clinical services. The state’s system of care in Colorado will
provide an example of a state that has been successful in addressing ECMH by expanding the service array of the early
intervention system, and Alameda County, California will share strategies for drawing down public dollars for their
“Family Partners” effort.
Specific topics to be covered include:
• How to assess what needs to be funded in a high-quality, sustainable early childhood system, using an organizing
framework for participants to take home
• Challenges to funding ECMH services and supports and field-tested strategies for overcoming these obstacles,
particularly for clinical and family/caregiver support services
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