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
• access to services, care coordination, children’s behavioral health, community-based care, managed care, Medicaid, service expansion, workforce shortages
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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...

Will “System Transformation” Transform the System? Before We Celebrate: 20 Questions That Need Answers

• By: Michael B. Friedman, LMSW Columbia University School of Social Work
• October 1st, 2018
• access to services, integrated treatment, mental health care, prevention and outreach, serious mental illness, substance use disorders, system transformation, workforce shortages
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System transformation is underway in New York State and throughout the United States through the development of elaborate financial structures such as accountable care organizations and health homes. No doubt these new structures will change the way business is done in the mental health system. But...

The Current State of OMH Housing

• By: Toni Lasicki, JD Association for Community Living (ACL)
• October 1st, 2017
• administrative burden, affordable housing crisis, Medicaid reform, mental health housing, nonprofit funding challenges, reimbursement rates, supportive housing programs, workforce shortages
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New York is one of the most expensive states in the country to live in, while the consumers that our nonprofit OMH housing providers serve are among the poorest. This combination requires New York State to step in to help make available enough safe and affordable housing for the most vulnerable...