Pilot Sites

    Jackson Sage West

 

Local Coordinating Committee
Family Care Teams
Evidence-Based Practice
Capacity Building Requirements
National Evaluation
Family and Youth Drive System Change
Photovoice
Technical Assistance
Proposal

Some Important Talking Points for Beginning Pilot Sites

• Who will be in the focus population (nature, demographics, size, strengths, needs, current service utilization)
• Outcomes we hope to achieve
• Types of services/supports and “practice model” that the site wants to offer for the population in order to achieve outcomes (need to include at least one evidence-based practice, and the Waiver, TFC, Wraparound model, and day treatment are all acceptable)
• How will service delivery be organized (must be family driven, youth guided, culturally and linguistically competent, individualized, comprehensive, and community based)
• Identify the administrative infrastructure needed to support the delivery system (Quality Improvement, Management Information Systems needed, training needed, etc.)
• Cost of the System of Care based on focus population numbers, expected utilization, service/supports array
• Identify: the state and local agencies that are spending dollars on children’s behavioral health services and supports; how much is each agency spending? What are the expenditures? (i.e., Federal, State, local, Tribal)
• Conduct a comprehensive scan of existing financial resources that are untapped and/or underutilized that we might use in the site to fund children’s behavioral health services/supports
• Identify utilization patterns and expenditures associated with high costs and poor outcomes, and identify strategies for redirection of this spending
• Identify disparities and disproportionality in access to services/supports
• Identify the funding structures that will best support the system design (e.g., blended or braided funding structures; risk-based financing structures; purchasing collaborative structures)
• Identify short and long term financing strategies