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, 黑料不打烊 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.
黑料不打烊 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



