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2008
Children's Agenda
Item 1. CHILDREN'S BEHAVIORAL HEALTH |
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| POLICY RECOMMENDATION: The 2008 Children's
Agenda supports the multi-agency Children's Behavioral Health
Initiative, including a five year comprehensive budget request,
encompassing prevention, early intervention, community-based
services, inpatient and residential treatment, group homes and
therapeutic foster care, serving children 0-21. Year one request
is $14,917,000. |
Support Children's Behavioral Health Initiative
Oklahoma has the highest rate of serious
mental illness in the nation. The lack of significant investment
in early intervention in the mental health of our children and
youth is a major contributor. One in ten children is
impaired by a serious mental health problem. Mental disability
is the most common childhood disability in Oklahoma, yet fewer
than one in five children receives treatment.
Children and youth with serious emotional
disturbances are the least likely of Oklahoma's children to
graduate from high school, to vote, to achieve residential
independence and to find a place in the workforce. They
are the most likely to be arrested. For many families,
finding appropriate services for their children is like piecing
together a jigsaw puzzle. They are often unsuccessful and
their children end up at great risk for out-of-school and
out-of-home placements.
The responsibility for serving children with
behavioral health needs is spread across the eight child-serving
state agencies, which have voluntarily come together to create
the Partnership for Children's Behavioral Health. This
partnership has developed a coordinated, five-year multi-agency
plan to address the crisis in Oklahoma.
Details of the Policy Recommendation are:
| Prevention: $2,300,000 |
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Annualize Youth Suicide
Prevention Initiative funding to update, coordinate and
implement the state plan on youth suicide prevention |
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Request:
$800,000 to ODMHSAS |
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Implement the
recommendations of the Governor's Task Force on the
Prevention of Underage Drinking |
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Request:
$1,500,000 to ODMHSAS |
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| Early Intervention:
$4,400,000 |
| Workforce
Development and Training, including raising Medicaid
rates to support development and disseminations of: |
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Parent-Child Interaction
Therapy (PCIT); Brief Strategic Family Therapy; The
Incredible Years; Trauma-Focused CBT |
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Request:
$300,000 to OSDH; $100,000 to ODMHSAS; $1,000,000 OHCA |
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Child care mental health
consultation through the Child Guidance Services |
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Request:
$1,500,000 to OSDH |
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Substance abuse counseling
services for adolescents, including individual, family
and group counseling |
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Request:
$1,500,000 to ODMHSAS |
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| Community-Based Services: $4,714,000 |
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Expansion of local systems
of care (including wrap-around services) |
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Request: $2,000,000 to
ODMHSAS |
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Services for Youth at
imminent risk of removal to OKDHS custody |
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Request: $1,714,000 to
OKDHS |
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Outpatient substance abuse
services, including aftercare and recovery management |
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Request: $1,000,000 to
ODMHSAS |
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| Inpatient and Residential
Treatment: $3,500,000 |
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Specialty inpatient care
for children and youth posing greatest risk |
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Request:
$1,000,000 to ODMHSAS |
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Residential substance
abuse treatment |
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Request:
$1,000,000 to ODMHSAS; $1,500,000 to OHCA |
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