1. Jody Levison-Johnson – CSoC Director COORDINATED SYSTEM OF CARE PRESENTATION TO LAKE CHARLES CHILDREN & YOUTH PLANNING BOARD NOVEMBER 3, 2011

2. What is a System of Care?

3. A spectrum of effective, community-based services and supports for children and youth with or at risk for mental health or other challenges and their families, that is organized into a coordinated network, builds meaningful partnerships with families and youth, and addresses their cultural and linguistic needs, in order to help them to function better at home, in school, in the community and throughout life. Stroul, Blau & Friedman (2010)

4. An alternate definition An adaptive network of structures, processes, and relationships grounded in system-of-care values and principles that provides children and youth with serious emotional disturbance and their families with access to and availability of necessary services and supports across administrative and funding jurisdictions. Hodges, Ferreira, Israel, & Mazza (2006)

5. Systems of Care are about…  Philosophy  Service delivery  Financing  Accountability  Continuous Quality Improvement

6. The Louisiana CSoC

7. Who We Are…  Collaboration of:  Department of Children & Family Services  Department of Education  Department of Health & Hospitals (OBH & Medicaid)  Office of Juvenile Justice  Families  Young people  Advocates

8. What We Believe… Louisiana’s CSoC Values:  Family Driven  Youth Guided  Home and Community-based  Strength-based and Individualized  Culturally & Linguistically Competent  Integrated across Systems  Connected to natural helping networks  Data Driven and Outcomes Oriented

9. 9 CSoC Louisiana Behavioral Health Partnership How it Fits…

10. Why it’s Important…  According to the National Evaluation of Systems of Care, youth involved in SOCs:  Spend more time in school  Have improved grades  Have fewer arrests  Show reductions in disciplinary problems  Have improved emotional health  Have fewer suicide attempts  Are less costly  Have reduced use of inpatient and residential care Source: National Evaluation for Systems of Care and Helping Youth Thrive in the Community. Short Report for 2008 Children’s Mental Health Awareness Day.

11. What We Are Doing…  Establishing Community Teams, Wraparound Agencies (WAA) and Family Support Organizations (FSO) in five Act 1225 Regions:  Region 2 (Capitol Area)  Region 7 (Alexandria)  Region 8 (Shreveport)  Region 9 (Monroe)  Jefferson Parish  Creating an approach to infuse the values across all partnering departments in all regions  Communications  Training

12. What’s Next…  Initial Implementation Institute held with five regions on October 5-6, 2011  Partnership with Magellan to support WAA and FSO development  Approval from Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services pending (anticipated in plenty of time)  Creating eligibility determination and enrollment processes  Conducting informational sessions and training across the state

13. The opportunity…

14. Thoughts & Questions

15. Contact Information Jody Levison-Johnson Jody.Levison@la.gov (225) 342-5921