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Funding, staffing shortages beleaguer Wyoming youth psychiatric facilities

11/23/2022

Funding, Staffing Shortages Beleaguer Youth Psychiatric Facilities in Wyoming

A lack of state investment has left St. Joseph’s and the Wyoming Behavioral Institute underfunded amid rising staffing and operational costs.

California’s Medicaid Reform Opens Up Access to More Children’s Mental Health Services

1/19/2022

California’s Medicaid Reform Opens Up Access to More Children’s Mental Health Services

California health officials plan to reform its public health system, in part to better serve the mental health needs of kids in foster care.

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Feds Offer More Medicaid Support for New Congregate Model

11/1/2021

Feds Offer More Medicaid Support for New Congregate Model

The federal agency that oversees health care entitlements has made it easier for states to use Medicaid dollars in some large group facilities for youth in foster care.

Washington Will Stop Using Child Support to Fund Foster Care

10/18/2021

Washington State Allowed to Exit Foster Care Lawsuit Following Reforms

Years after foster care children and their legal advocates sued the state of Washington over mental health services, a federal judge is satisfied that the state is committed to lasting changes.

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Senators Propose Medicaid Exception for Congregate Foster Care

8/11/2021

Senators Propose Medicaid Exception for Congregate Foster Care

Two senators have proposed legislation that would enable states to draw Medicaid funding for foster youth living in certain residential treatment programs.

California’s Medicaid Reform Opens Up Access to More Children’s Mental Health Services

7/29/2021

California Wants to Expand Access to Mental Health Care for Children

California has proposed plans for improved access to an array of pediatric mental health services — before children reach a crisis state.

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    Medicaid

    8/5/2020

    Recommendation to Check Abuse Reports with Medicaid Based on Questionable Analysis

    Last month, an inspector general report out of the Department of Health and Human Services recommended that Medicaid data can be used “to identify instances of potential child abuse or neglect.”

    Federal Audit Shows Poor Record-keeping of Indiana’s Foster Youth on Psych Meds — and There are Many

    4/27/2020

    Amid Pandemic, A Pharma-Backed Effort to Ease Oversight on Psych Meds

    As the California Assembly struggles to begin creating new laws on Monday amid the ravages of the coronavirus pandemic, lawmakers are being urged to select only the most vital-to-the-times bills. To contain infections that have topped 43,000 in the state, there will be masks and gloves, and people seated far from each other in cavernous hearing rooms.

    therapy

    4/22/2020

    Older Foster Youth Can Feel Unprepared to Navigate Mental Health Care, Study Finds

    When James McIntyre left the foster care system at age 21, he said good riddance to therapy. It had never helped him much, and it felt like a chore. “Therapy was thrown at me.