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Children's Mental Health

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Children's Mental Health Bureau

Mission, Value Statement, Big Aims

Our mission Last Updated 6/1/2011 The Children’s Mental Health Bureau provides collaborative leadership in an integrated system of care for Montana families, youth and children, and manages effective Medicaid funded mental health services. VALUE STATEMENT Employ a family and youth focused approach.

BIG AIMS

1. Enhance relationships with system partners

Objective: Promote strong, collaborative working relationships between CMHB and state agencies, providers and other community stakeholders with the result that the bureau is viewed as an active partner in serving youth and their families.

Activities

Strengthen collaborations with Developmental Disabilities system, Child and Family Services system, Juvenile Justice system, public schools and the Office of Public Instruction, adult mental health system, tribal communities, early childhood system, chemical dependency system.

Increase the strategies of the transition committee to improve outcomes for transition youth.

Increase support of early intervention and prevention activities in early childhood system.

Increase the capacityfor wraparound facilitation statewide, in other child serving systems, and in tribal communities by offering training and providing coaching.

Offer training to agencies and providers about:

serving DD/SED youth;
Administrative rules, policies, billing, etc.

Offer wraparound training for Montana PRTF’s

Develop a mechanism for informing out of state PRTF's about the principles of wraparound in order to promote more effective discharges.

Involve providers and custodial agencies agencies consistently in the administrative review process.

Continue involving providers and partner agencies in the development of administrative rules and policies.

2. Increase family and youth involvement in decisions

Objective: Integrate families in all levels of planning, development and assessment of services.

Activities

Develop a family roadmap on the website that includes additional resources (i.e. a family guide with roadmaps)

Develop QA process to strengthen family involvement in treatment planning and discharge planning

Use outcomes of QA process to inform planning and development of polices and services.

Educate and empower families/legal custodians as consumers of services on behalf of their children.

Expand family and youth involvement and training in wraparound.

Consult with family and youth in the development of administrative rules and policies.

Continue outreach and collaboration with family serving organizations.

3. Improve the management of effective services

Objective: Provide guidance and leadership to providers and other child serving agencies to improve access to effective mental health services for youth and families.

Activities

Share bureau goals with providers and request their input on meeting the goals.

Implement therapeutic group home rules which strengthen therapeutic component of care.

Initiate rule development process for therapeutic family care.

Offer training to providers in evidence based practices

Initiate planning process with stakeholders to incorporate system of care principles and values in to children’s mental health service system

Develop self-assessment instrument for service providers to evaluate incorporation of system of care principles and values.

Manage resources efficiently and within the limits provided.

Page last updated: 06/15/2011