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Presented at the 17th Annual Research Conference

Findings from the Health Care Reform Tracking Project's 2003 State Surveys

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Session Number: 5 Room: Salon H

Presentation Type: symposium

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Synopsis: The Health Care Reform Tracking Project was initiated in 1995 to track and analyze the impact of public sector managed care reforms on children and adolescents with emotional disorders and their families. The Health Care Reform Tracking Project (HCRTP) has identified promising approaches and features of managed care, which have great policy relevance for the children’s mental health field. Based on the results of the 2003 state surveys, this symposium will report on strategies and approaches to serve children with serious and complex needs as identified by key state and local informants who responded to the HCRTP’s state surveys.

Date: Monday, March 1, 2004

Session Time: 10:15 AM - 11:45 AM

Meeting the Needs of Children and Adolescents with Serious and Complex Needs

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Session Number: 5 Room: Salon H

Presenting: Sheila Pires

All Authors for this paper: Sheila Pires

Presentation Type: part of symposium

Synopsis: This section of the symposium will present the preliminary research findings regarding promising strategies, approaches, and features within managed care systems for meeting the needs of children and adolescents with serious and complex needs, including children with serious emotional disturbances. Topics covered include differences between carve-out and integrated designs in goals, financing arrangements, operational characteristics, and impact. A brief description of promising approaches and practices in design and financing will also be presented. The findings will be taken from the 2003 State Survey of the Health Care Reform Tracking Project.

Date: Monday, March 1, 2004

Session Time: 10:15 AM - 11:45 AM

Serving Youth With Serious and Complex Behavioral Health Needs in Managed Care Systems

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Session Number: 5 Room: Salon H

Presenting: Beth Stroul

All Authors for this paper: Beth Stroul

Presentation Type: part of symposium

Synopsis: This section of the symposium will summarize the issues and challenges related to serving youth with serious and complex behavioral health disorders and their families in the context of managed care systems, and will describe promising approaches for meeting their needs. These approaches, identified through earlier Tracking Project activities, were studied through site visits, telephone interviews, and document review. The approaches to be described include creating separate levels of care, incorporating enhanced benefits, creating special “system of care” carve outs, establishing specialty provider networks, incorporating the system of care philosophy and approach in managed care systems, and providing specialized care planning and coordination. Examples of each type of approach will be described, as well as common characteristics and challenges across all the promising strategies. The lessons learned have implications not only for improving managed care systems but for improving care for youth with serious and complex behavioral health needs and their families in any type of service system.

Date: Monday, March 1, 2004

Session Time: 10:15 AM - 11:45 AM

Child Welfare Special Analysis

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Session Number: 5 Room: Salon H

Presenting: Jan McCarthy

All Authors for this paper: Jan McCarthy

Presentation Type: part of symposium

Synopsis: This section of the symposium will present the research findings from the 2003 State Survey regarding behavioral health services available through managed care systems for children in the child welfare system and their families. Recommendations from researchers and stakeholders who participated in a September 2003 Consensus Conference on Publicly Funded Managed Care for Children and Adolescents with Behavioral Health Disorders and Their Families also will be discussed. 

Date: Monday, March 1, 2004

Session Time: 10:15 AM - 11:45 AM

Family Involvement in Managed Care

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Session Number: 5 Room: Salon H

Presenting: Virginia Wood

All Authors for this paper: Virginia Wood

Presentation Type: part of symposium

Synopsis: This section of the symposium will focus on promising approaches and strategies related to family involvement in managed care systems incorporated in three states managed care systems. These promising approaches include both statewide approaches focused on a total population and a local site focused on a specific geographic area. Four areas of family involvement will be addressed: 1) Requirements for family Involvement, 2) Family Involvement at the System Management Level, 3) Family Involvement at the Service Delivery Level, and 4) Program and Staff Roles for Families and Youth. Discussion will focus on the issues and challenges related to public sector behavioral health managed care that have been identified through the Health Care Reform Tracking Project (HCRTP), related promising approaches, and the commonalities across these approaches and strategies described by key stakeholders. 

Date: Monday, March 1, 2004

Session Time: 10:15 AM - 11:45 AM