WVDHHR Bureau for Behavioral Health and Health Facilities (BHHF) and WV System of Care (WVSOC) Accessing state/local resources to improve service delivery.

WVDHHR Bureau for Behavioral Health and Health Facilities (BHHF)

and WV System of Care (WVSOC)

Accessing state/local resources to improve service delivery and build local partnerships to better serve

WV children and their families.

Joining Forces for Healthy Kids

2011 Kids Strong Conference

June 9, 2011

Charleston Civic Center

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Learning Objectives

• To increase knowledge of priorities and programs supported by BHHF

• To increase knowledge of the coordinated statewide efforts of the WV Expanded School Mental Health Initiative and the WV System of Care

• To increase knowledge of state/regional/local resources to assist communities to better serve students and their families

WV Department of Health and Human Resources

Bureau for Behavioral Health and Health Facilities

• Behavioral Health is ESSENTIAL to Health

• Prevention Works

• Treatment is Effective

• People Recover

Improving the quality of life for West Virginians with behavioral health needs

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Child and Adolescent Behavioral Health

Goal:

To improve the service delivery system for children and adolescents with serious emotional disturbances (SED) and their families.• Increase Access• Increase Service Capacity

Priority Initiatives:• WV System of Care• Statewide Parent and Youth Support Network • Expanded School Mental Health (ESMH)• Transitioning Youth• Suicide Prevention

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What is Expanded School Mental Health?

• A framework that builds upon the core services typically provided by schools

• A shared responsibility between schools and community• Provides the continuum of mental health care from

prevention, early intervention and treatment• Recognizes the critical link between academic success

and social and emotional well-being • Focuses on reducing barriers to learning• Develops school connectedness

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WV’s Expanded School Mental Health (ESMH) Initiative

Partnership between WVDE and WVDHHR Cross-systems State Steering team consisting of local/state level

education, families, behavioral health and social service providers and public health

Statewide network

MissionTo develop and strengthen policies, practices and services that promote learning and social- emotional well-being for all of WV’s youth through a collaborative process that engages schools, families, and community-based agencies.

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The West Virginia System of Care is a public/private/consumer partnership dedicated to

building the foundation for an effective continuum of care that empowers children at risk of out-of-home care and their families.

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WV System of Care Organizing Framework

A System of Care is, first and foremost, a set of values and principles that provides an organized, integrated framework for systems reform on behalf of children, youth and families.

• It is: a different way of doing business that improves the way we all interact with community, families and other child-serving systems

• It is not: an agency, program, grant funding

Why a System of Care?

• Nationally recognized practice model for serving children with mental, behavioral, and intellectual/developmental disabilities and their families.

• Reduces duplication, coordinates efforts, builds long lasting partnerships that improves outcomes

• Passed by Legislation: Spring 2010-SB 636• WV Code: Chapter 49-7-34

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WV System of Care

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No One System Controls Everything

Every System Controls Something “Creating a Win-Win”

Moving from fragmented to

integrated

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WV System of CareGuiding Core Values

1. Family driven and youth guided, with the strengths and needs of the child and family determining the types and mix of services and supports provided.

2. Community-based, with a locus of services as well as system management resting within a supportive, adaptive infrastructure of structures, processes and relationships at the community level.

3. Culturally and linguistically competent, with agencies, programs, and services that reflect the cultural, racial, ethnic, and linguistic differences of the populations they serve to facilitate access to and utilization of appropriate services and supports and to eliminate disparities in care.

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Synergy Initiatives Nationally

• Nationally– Child & Family Services Plan (Child Welfare) – No Child Left Behind – Preventing & Reducing Juvenile Crime in WV (Criminal Justice

Services)– WV Suicide Prevention Council (Mental Health)– Children with Special Health Care Needs (Public Health)– Integration of Public Health and Behavioral Health in Primary

Care Clinics

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Synergy Initiatives in West Virginia

Integration of WVSOC Guiding Principles/Values

• Family Advocacy, Support & Training (FAST) Program• Wellness, Recovery, Action Plan (WRAP) for Youth • Expanded School Base Mental Health (ESMH)• Commission to Study Residential Placement of Children (SB 636)• Statewide Needs and Gaps Assessment aka: WV Service Array• Best Practice Community Forums• Child Serving Agencies integrating core values and principles into policy

and practice• Building Bridges• Jacob’s Law• WV CANS (Child, Adolescent, Needs & Strength Assessment)

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Questions

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Jackie Payne @ 304-356-4785 or [email protected]

FOR MORE INFO...

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Resource Information

• WV System of Care & Regional Clinical Review Process– Linda Watts at 304-437-5911– www.wvsystemofcare.org

• WV DHHR online application for CHIPS/Medicaid/School Clothing Allowance– Contains links to other resources, screening and programs– www.wvinroads.org

• WV Commission to Study Residential Placement of Children – Linda Dalyai at 304-558-7980– www.residentialplacementcommission.org

• WV Comprehensive Behavioral Health Commission– www.wvcbhc.org

• Service Array– Melanie Swisher at (304) 558-0109 or 304-859-2989 – [email protected]

• Family Advocacy, Support & Training (FAST) Program– Bill Albert at 304-343-4481; Referrals 1-866-255-4370– http://www.wvsystemofcare.org/FamiliesYouth/tabid/448/Default.aspx– www.lawv.net

• Service Delivery/Development Work Group – Susan Fry at 304-429-2297; Fax: 304-429-8365 – [email protected]

Resource information

• Expanded School Mental Health – www.schoolmentalhealthwv.org

• Family Support Program, DHHR– www.wvdhhr.org/bhhf/famsup1.asp

• ASPEN (suicide prevention)– www.wvaspen.com

• WV Suicide Prevention Hotline– 1-800-273-8255 (TALK)

• WV School Based Health Assembly – www.wvsbha.org

• FRN – each has their own website, the directory is here– www.wvdhhr.org/bcf/eces_coordinate.asp

• Bureau for Children and Families– www.wvdhhr.org/bcf

• Public Health – Office of Maternal and Child Health– www.wvdhhr.org/mcfh

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Thank You!

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