Child Welfare and Mental Health working together will provide:
 Intensive home and community based mental health services to children who:
 Have an open Child Welfare case including
AB12 and Voluntary,
 Have a mental illness or condition that has been documented or who need individualized mental health services in the home or in a home like setting

• Improved coordination of resources and services
• Promote greater uniformity in statewide services

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Facilitate an array of services
Support development and delivery of services
Support an effective and sustainable solution to achieve quality based oversight
Address the needs of the Katie A. Subclass with more intensive services

 Continued focus of working together to:
 Track progress
 Coordinate staff training
 Creating/implementing new training tools and policy
 Organization and facilitation of the Child & Family
Team (CFT) meetings
 Mental Health Screening/Assessment

 Goals
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Permanency for the child/youth
Utilization of Evidence Based Practices
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Transparency between Departments
Accountability
Active and involved community partnership
A shared commitment
 The 5 Key Practice Components of the CPM
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Engagement
Assessment
Service Planning and Implementation
Monitoring and Adapting
Transition

 Children/Youth up to age 21 who are:
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Medi-Cal eligible,
Meet medical necessity,
Have an open Child Welfare services case, and
Meet either of the following:
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Is currently in or being considered for Wraparound,
Therapeutic Foster Care (TFC), Therapeutic Behavioral
Services (TBS), Specialized Care Rate (SCR) due to behavioral needs or crisis stabilization/interventions, or
Is currently in or being considered for a group home, psychiatric hospital, 24 hr Mental Health facility or experienced 3 or more placements within 24 months due to behaviors

1. ICC - Targeted Case Management (TCM) service that facilitates assessment of, care, planning for and coordination of services
 Ensures that medically necessary services are accessed, coordinated and delivered
2. IHBS – Mental Health Rehabilitation Services are:
 Individualized, strength-based interventions designed to ameliorate mental health conditions
 Aimed at improving the family’s ability to help the child/youth successfully function in the home and community
3. TFC (Therapeutic Foster Care)
 starting January 2014

 All children/youth with OPEN Child Welfare cases get screened for mental health services
 New updated Mental Health Screening form
 Located in Shasta Templates
 If the child/youth doesn’t already have a clinician assigned make sure to do the Mental Health Screening when considering for:
 SCR
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Hospitalization
Group Home
 3 of more Placements due to Behaviors

 Meetings happen a minimum of (1) every 90 days
 Involvement of both Social
Workers and Mental Health
Clinicians
 Family & Children are invited
 Meeting structure is similar to
HRT format
 Safety Organized Practice model

For more Katie A. information you can visit:
 http://www.childsworld.ca.gov/PG1320.htm
 http://www.dhcs.ca.gov/Pages/KatieAImplementa tion.aspx
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