Mental Health

HHS Awards Planning Grants to 15 States for Medicaid-Funded Behavioral Health Clinic Demonstration

This week, HHS announced that it awarded 15 states each with $1 million, one-year Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic (CCBHC) planning grants in support of state efforts to join the Medicaid-funded CCBHC demonstration program. Awardees include: Alabama, Delaware, Georgia, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Mississippi, Montana, North Carolina, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Ohio, Rhode Island, Vermont, and […]

Anne Dwyer

March 17, 2023

If You Care About Children’s Mental Health, Here’s Why You Need to Care About Medicaid Unwinding

The pandemic has shed new light on children’s mental health across the nation. While the evidence is clear that even before the COVID pandemic there was a crisis in children’s mental health, the pandemic has further intensified the crisis, as highlighted by national pediatric provider groups in their declaration of a national emergency in child […]

Anne Dwyer

March 15, 2023

Funding for Community Health Workers Authorized in Consolidated Appropriations Act – How could this help children and families?

We’ve written about several of the exciting health provisions in the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023 that was signed into law in December here on Say Ahhh!: to recap, Joan Alker wrote about the permanent mandatory 12-month continuous eligibility requirement and other important provisions, Tricia Brooks detailed the new guardrails and transparency requirements as states […]

Natalie Lawson

January 13, 2023

Congress Includes Medicaid, CHIP Mental Health Provisions in End of Year Funding Bill

[The bipartisan spending plan was approved by Congress and signed into law by the President on December 29, 2022. Read CCF’s brief to learn more.] As my colleagues on Say Ahhh! have highlighted the omnibus appropriations bill released earlier today includes a number of provisions related to Medicaid and CHIP such as funding for Puerto […]

Anne Dwyer

December 20, 2022

Federal Focus on Behavioral Health Crisis Care

You may be thinking that we’ve been writing a lot about behavioral health on Say Ahhh! lately. Well, you’re right – and there’s more! For starters, last week, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) released new National Guidelines for Child and Youth Behavioral Health Crisis Care, complementing other recent resources such as […]

Anne Dwyer, Natalie Lawson November 18, 2022

HHS Announces New Planning Grants for Medicaid-Funded Behavioral Health Clinic Demonstration

Last week, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced it will be awarding up to $15 million in new planning grants to states as part of its national expansion of the Medicaid-funded Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic (CCBHC) demonstration program under the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act. The announcement comes on the heels of […]

Anne Dwyer

October 28, 2022