SB19-195 Enhancing Children and Youth Behavioral Health Services - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

SB19-195

Enhancing Children and Youth Behavioral Health Services

Andrew Gabor Director of Child, Youth, and Family Behavioral Health Susanna C. Snyder Child and Youth Behavioral Health Program Manager Maternal Child Health Policy

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Mar-20

Our Mission

Improving health care access and

• utcomes for the people we serve

while demonstrating sound stewardship of financial

resources

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Introductions

How comfortable currently are you with the ideas and work laid out in SB19-195?

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Participant Poll

5, Very comfortable - - - - -> 1, Very uncomfortable

• Review the bill content
• Diagram review for pathway to BH services
• Departmental updates
• Discuss and get feedback on
• Single entry point
• Standardized assessment tool
• Future meeting topics discussion

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Today’s Agenda

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Tasks

Dept of Health Care Policy & Financing

Description

High Fidelity Wraparound (HFW) as part of System of Care

• HCPF to implement HFW services to Medicaid eligible

children and youth at risk of out-of-home placement or in

• ut-of-home placement

Integrated Funding Pilot

• Develop plan to integrate funding for behavioral health

(BH) intervention and treatment services across the state

Description

Standardized Screening Tools

• Select developmentally appropriate and culturally

competent statewide BH screening tools for primary care providers and primary caregivers Statewide referral and entry point

• Develop a plan for establishing a single statewide referral

and entry point for children and youth who have positive BH screening and needs identified through assessment Standardized Assessment Tool

• Select a single standardized assessment tool to identify BH

issues & other related needs in children and youth

Dept of Human Services – Office of Behavioral Health

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• OBH Updates
• Hiring
• Screening workgroup
• SEP concepts
• CANS workgroup
• HCPF Updates
• Hiring
• Concept paper and CMS
• Targeted CO stakeholder and national scan meetings
• Vendor procurement for integrated funding pilot

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Updates

April

Procure Vendor

July

Submit Report = (research) + (recommendation)

December

Submit Supplemental = (implementation plan) + (multi-dept review)

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Integrated Funding Project Timelines

April

Procure Vendor

July

Submit Research Summary

December

Submit Report= (research) + (implementation plan)+ (multi-dept review) + (recommendation)

• Purpose: increase the speed and ease of accessing care

regardless of funding

• Who: a family, youth, or referring party that does not

know what resources are available

• Colorado Crisis Services https://coloradocrisisservices.org/
• Child abuse hotline https://www.co4kids.org/
• Office of Community Living, HCPF SEPs

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Single Entry Point:

• A. Statewide hotline
• B. Local lines statewide
• C. Hotline and mobile response
• D. Hotline, walk-in, and mobile crisis response
• E. All of the above, and HCPF waiver SEPs

structure

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Single Entry Point Spectrum

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Which version do you think is the best fit for CO?

• Purpose: increase consistency, common language, ease
• f access to care, and appropriate interventions

regardless of geography and funder.

• Efforts throughout the system to align efforts.
• Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths (CANS) tool
• https://sites.google.com/state.co.us/cans/compass-

cans

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Standardized Assessment Tool

• Capacity building
• Training and monitoring structures
• Concept paper
• Youth aged 21-26
• Other ideas?

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Next Meeting Ideas

How comfortable currently are you with the ideas and work laid out in SB19-195?

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Participant Poll

5, Very comfortable - - - - -> 1, Very uncomfortable

Comments or questions?

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Please fill out your meeting survey before you leave ✓ Paper copies available for in person participants ✓ Webinar participants will be taken to online survey at the end of the webinar

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Your feedback is important!

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Andrew Gabor Director of Child, Youth, and Family Behavioral Health Andrew.Gabor@state.co.us Susanna C. Snyder Child and Youth Behavioral Health Program Manager Maternal Child Health Policy Susanna.Snyder@state.co.us Brett Snyder Child and Youth Behavioral Health Stakeholder Specialist Brett.Snyder@state.co.us

Thank You!

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