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Improving the Delivery Health Care that Supports Young Children's Healthy Mental Development: Update on Accomplishments and Lessons from a Five-State Consortium
The five states that participated in the second Assuring Better Child Health and Development (ABCD II) Consortium were successful in improving child development services, increasing the rate of identification of children in need of developmental services, and improving the likelihood that those identified with a potential need received appropriate follow-up services. The results of the 3-year project are detailed in a new report from the National Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP), Improving the Delivery of Health Care that Supports Young Children’s Healthy Mental Development: Update on the Accomplishments and Lessons from a Five-State Consortium.February 2008 -
Building Better Systems for Child and Adolescent Mental Health Highlights from a meeting convened by the Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs (AMCHP) and the National Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP)
This paper summarizes the results of a meeting convened as a means of engaging state, federal, provider, and consumer experts from the child mental health and maternal child health fields in a conversation about how to develop stronger collaborative approaches to improve systems for child and adolescent mental health. The meeting was based on the premise that meeting child and adolescent mental health needs requires a continuum of services. This continuum includes promotion of social and emotional health and development, as well as prevention, early intervention, and care for mental health conditions affecting children and adolescents. While the discussion broadly considered the continuum of services for child and adolescent mental health, it had a strong focus on the promotion and prevention end of the continuum.January 2007 -
Measuring and Evaluating Developmental Services: Strategies and Lessons from the ABCD II Consortium States
Since 2000, the National Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP) and The Commonwealth Fund have conducted state learning consortia – in the Assuring better Child Health and Development (ABCD) initiative – dedicated to improving the delivery of child development services to young children who are Medicaid beneficiaries. The work of the eight ABCD states has shown that state policies, especially Medicaid policies, can effectively promote improvements in the quality of preventive and developmental services provided to young children.December 2006 -
Strategies for Improving Access to Mental Health Services in SCHIP Programs
This brief highlights opportunities for programmatic improvement in the delivery of mental health services for children in SCHIP. The brief examines strategies and challenges faced by three state SCHIP programs. Each state reports successful approaches to managing the delivery of mental health services for the SCHIP population.May 2006» -
State Approaches to Promoting Young Children’s Healthy Mental Development: A Survey of Medicaid, Maternal and Child Health, and Mental Health Agencies
This report examines how states are addressing the healthy mental development of children ages birth to 3 and is based on a survey of Medicaid, maternal and child health, and children’s mental health agencies in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. The report addresses critical issues confronting states, common approaches to addressing them, and promising new initiatives that states have undertaken to improve systems of care for young children’s social/emotional development.November 2005» -
Promoting Young Children’s Healthy Mental Development
This brief summarizes presentations made at NASHP’s 2004 annual state health policy conference during a session on “Promoting Young Children’s Healthy Mental Development.” The session focused on the evidence base, state program highlights, a discussion of the ABCD program, and ways to use the Medicaid program to better support early childhood social and emotional development.November 2004» -
Screening for Behavioral Developmental Problems: Issues, Obstacles, and Opportunities for Change
This paper examines issues related to screening children for developmental disabilities and problems. It examines the ways in which screening tools differ from one another and the challenges that are often faced by those working to integrate screening tools in medical practices. The paper is designed to provide states with a framework for evaluating developmental screening tools for young children so that state officials are equipped to make informed decisions and to work with pediatricians, parents, and other stakeholders in strengthening services to young children. The paper also includes summary information on 17 different tools.August 2004» -
Using Medicaid to Support Young Children’s Healthy Mental Development
This report examines both why and how state Medicaid programs can support children's healthy mental development and includes a discussion of how states can use Medicaid to better support young children's social/emotional development even in the current economic climate. It includes specific strategies Medicaid agencies can use (and have used) to support young children's healthy mental development.September 2003» -
Perspectives on Using a Rapid Monitoring System: A Report from the Effective Managed Behavioral Healthcare Program Monitoring Summit
This report looks at eight key findings of a group of state policy makers and other experts convened to discuss their experience in operating an Early Warning System (EWS) or a similar system. An EWS uses a limited set of measures and administrative processes to oversee the managed care behavioral health system and provide real-time, performance-based information to state, federal, and local governments; consumers; families; providers; advocates; and other key stakeholders.September 2002»
