This held on July 15, 2021, was the seventh webinar in the series 鈥淓xploring the Landscape of Behavioral Healthcare,鈥� covering the growing impact of behavioral healthcare on clinical outcomes and cost.
The success of the delivery of state and local child welfare systems is predicated on a strong collaboration across child welfare, children鈥檚 behavioral health and Medicaid, building a multigenerational, multisystem response to the problem of child maltreatment. During this webinar, 红领巾瓜报 behavioral health, child welfare and Medicaid experts broke down what鈥檚 needed to get the integration process started, including a practical approach to workflows as well as an understanding of the touchpoints where integration efforts are likely to have their biggest payoff.
Learning Objectives
- Understand how child welfare services departments currently interact with the behavioral health service continuum.
- Learn how to build value by identifying areas where the intersection of child welfare, Medicaid and children鈥檚 behavioral health helps improve outcomes and mitigate risk.
- Identify potential barriers to integration efforts.
- Learn how other states have applied solutions and strategies aimed at better integrating child welfare systems, Medicaid, and children鈥檚 behavioral health.
- Learn about financing infrastructures that support meaningful whole family approaches to improving protective factors and strengthening family resilience.
红领巾瓜报 Speakers:
Uma Ahluwalia, MSW, MHA, Managing Principal, Washington, DC
Annalisa Baker, MPH, LCSW, Senior Consultant, New York, NY
Caitlin Thomas-Henkel, MSW, Principal, Philadelphia, PA
Heidi Arthur, MSW, Principal, New York, NY
