Promising Managed Care Approaches for Behavioral Health Services for Children and Families in Child Welfare

Child Welfare Initiative and the Health Care Reform Tracking Project

The Health Care Reform Tracking Project (HCRTP) included a special focus on the effects of managed care on children and families involved in the child welfare system. Child welfare stakeholders were included as respondents in all phases of the HCRTP, and each study publication included a special analysis related to children and families served by the child welfare system.

Child welfare related findings have been published in the following documents:

• McCarthy, J., and Valentine, C. (2000) Child Welfare Impact Analysis - 1999
• Promising Approaches for Behavioral Health Services to Children and Adolescents and Their Families in Managed Care Systems:
  • McCarthy, J., and McCullough, C. (2003) A View from the Child Welfare System (PDF)
  • Hepburn, K., and McCarthy, J. (2003) Making Interagency Initiatives Work for Children and Families in the Child Welfare System (PDF)
• Stroul, B., Pires, S., and Armstrong, M. (2004) Health Care Reform Tracking Project: Tracking State Managed Care Systems as They Affect Children and Adolescents with Behavioral Health Disorders and Their Families - 2003 State Survey.
  This report includes a 20-page Child Welfare Special Analysis.
  
  To download all publications and products of HCRTP, click on http://rtckids.fmhi.usf.edu/rtcpubs/hctrking/prod.htm.
  Publications relating to the child welfare focus are available from the National TA Center.
  

Partners in the HCRTP

The HCRTP was conducted jointly by the National Technical Assistance Center for Children's Mental Health at Georgetown University, the Research and Training Center for Children's Mental Health at the University of South Florida (USF), and the Human Service Collaborative of Washington, DC.

Co-Funders of the HCRTP

Co-funders of the HCRTP included the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research, U.S. Department of Education; Center for Mental Health Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). Supplemental funding provided by: Administration for Children and Families (DHHS), the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, and the Center for Health Care Strategies, Inc.

Questions?

• Child welfare focus of the HCRTP - Contact Jan McCarthy, Director of Child Welfare Policy, National TA Center for Children's Mental Health, jrm33@georgetown.edu

• HCRTP - Contact Beth Stroul, Consultant to National TA Center for Children's Mental Health, bethstroul@aol.com