Community Capacity: Can We Deliver Better Treatment for Children and Families?

• By: Andrea Smyth, MPA NYS Coalition for Children’s Behavioral Health
• January 1st, 2019
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On October 15, 2011, the Behavioral Health Subcommittee of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo’s Medicaid Redesign Team (MRT) gave its final report. For the adult behavioral health system, the report recommended an unprecedented investment into the housing needs of individuals with mental health and...

System Change and Service Providers: Opportunities and Challenges in Addressing Unmet Needs

• By: Andrea Smyth, MPA NYS Coalition for Children’s Behavioral Health Jason Lippman The Coalition for Behavioral Health
• January 1st, 2019
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In 2011, a priority of New York’s Governor Andrew M. Cuomo was Medicaid redesign, with the substantive presence of behavioral health services in both the Medicaid Redesign Team (MRT) and the subsequent Delivery System Reform Incentive Program (DSRIP). The focus was to reduce inpatient...