Browsing by Subject "Systems of Care"

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    Addressing Disparities through TCOM Strategies
    (2016-11) Walton, Betty A.; Harrold, Wendy
    While America is rapidly become more diverse, the human service workforce is changing more slowly. Behavioral health disparities in accessing appropriate services and in outcomes are well documented. Can TCOM strategies be leveraged to address these issues? Combining existing information (insurance claim and workforce data) with TCOM information clarifies local challenges and provides a framework to monitor progress. Moving beyond considerations of gender and age, possible access issues and lower or disrupted service use may be reflected in differences in service utilization by language, race, and ethnicity. Exploring available information can identify access and/or engagement and systematic reporting issues. Implementing recommended TCOM reports provides tools to help identify disparities in behavioral health outcomes for programs and services by geography and demographics. In reviewing outcome management reports for teenagers and transition age youth, questions arise about the significance of observed differences. In response, a predictive analysis using ANSA data asks if age, gender, race, ethnicity, current personal recovery factors (strengths and recreation), or the identification of cultural or linguistic challenges predict resolving actionable needs over time. Routinely monitoring differences in access and outcomes is recommended as a TCOM quality improvement process.
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    ANSA: Becoming a Recovery Focused Tool
    (2014-11) Walton, Betty A.; Kim, Hea-Won
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    Early childhood Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths (CANS): Indiana multi-system comprehensive Glossary, v 2.2
    (2015-08) Walton, Betty A.; Moynihan, Stephanie N.; Cornett, Stacey
    The early childhood or Birth to Five CANS assessment tool is developmentally appropriate for infants, toddlers and preschoolers. Similar to the Comprehensive Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths (CANS, Lyons, 2009) 5 to 17 tool, the early childhood version considers basic life dimensions or domains (social/emotional needs, risk factors, risk behaviors, daily life functioning, child strengths, acculturation and caregiver strengths and needs).
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    Readiness for system of care implementation supporting child mental health services: Local perspectives across Indiana. System of Care Implementation Survey (SOCIS) overview
    (IN FSSA, 2014-03) Walton, Betty A.; Evans, Pinkie I.
    This report reflects the overall level of system of care for the State of Indiana using information both from key stakeholders who rated the entire state and from those who rated their own community. In addition, the level of development of each SOCIS factor (important components of local SOC infrastructure to support accessible and effective mental health services and supports) is detailed for each participating county.
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    SOC Readiness Self-Assessment Supporting Implementation Planning
    (2015-03) Walton, Betty A.; Evans, Pinkie
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    Systems of Care
    (2018) Walton, Betty A.
    The System of Care (SOC) model of service delivery supports accessible, effective behavioral health services and supports for young people with mental health needs and their families. The SOC model provides a framework for cross-system collaborative service systems that are child centered, family focused, community based, and culturally competent. SOC collaborative infrastructure supports access to a comprehensive array of individualized services that are delivered in the least restrictive settings with family members involved at all levels of planning and delivery of services. Over the last twenty years, local and state level cross-system collaborative SOCs have developed across Indiana, and access to intensive home and community based services has improved. The attached slides review SOC values and principles, statewide progress, national and state impact, and related translational implementation research. Presented in masters level social work community practice courses, the slide deck includes an activity, application of the SOC model to real world challenges.
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    Taking Systems Change to Scale: Building Replicable Processes
    (2013-03) Friedman, Robert; Lyons, John S.; Walton, Betty A.; Israel, Nathaniel