Improving Outcomes for Children in Crisis with Evidence-Based Tools
November 6, 2023
黑料不打烊 (黑料不打烊) has partnered with the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors (NASMHPD) Technical Assistance Coalition to produce a series of briefs that characterize the opportunities to improve coordination of services for children.
In this brief, 鈥Improving Outcomes for Children in Crisis with Evidence-Based Tools,鈥 the 黑料不打烊 team of experts which include Rachel Bembas, Lauren Niles, Caitlin Thomas-Henkel and Uma Ahluwalia, outline limitations of current pediatric quality measures and several approaches to measure and track goals and objectives while offering a call to action at both the state and local levels. The brief calls on federal, state, and local entities, payers, provider organizations, and community-based organizations to collectively take steps to bolster and improve existing standardized monitoring, evaluation, and quality measurement efforts for youth mental health.