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Teaming Up: Using the IDEA and Medicaid to Secure Comprehensive Mental Health Services for Children and Youth$6.00 This publication is designed to inform practitioners—IDEA attorneys and advocates who are not familiar with Medicaid, and Medicaid attorneys and advocates who do not know the IDEA or who have little experience in using Medicaid—how they may obtain the services and supports needed by children with emotional and behavioral disorders. It is also available for free download in PDF format. You will need the free Acrobat Reader to view and print this file. (August 2003) 
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Suspending Disbelief: Moving Beyond Punishment to Promote Effective Interventions for Children with Mental or Emotional Disorders$5.00 This paper examines congressional intent regarding the treatment of children with behavior problems and, by examining administrative and court decisions interpreting these provisions, compares those intentions with actual implementation of the mandate. It also includes a brief discussion of the research supporting use of Functional Behavioral Assessments and Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports and identifies programs that have successfully applied these concepts. The trends and arguments highlighted here can inform the work of attorneys and advocates who represent children with emotional and behavioral disorders and policymakers who are truly committed to seeing all children succeed in school. (May 2003)
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Avoiding Cruel Choices$10.00 A guide for policymakers and family organizations on Medicaid's role in preventing custody relinquishment. 28 pp. (November 2002) E-mail pubs@bazelon.org for information on discounts on the purchase of 10 or more copies of this report.
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Mix and Match: Using Federal Programs to Support Interagency Systems of Care for Children with Mental Health Care Needs$5.00 This issue brief is produced to help states and localities use existing federal programs in a coordinated manner to finance the widest possible array of services for children of all ages and income groups. (July 2003)
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Help or Hindrance?: The Federal Government and Interagency Systems of Care for Children with Serious Mental Disorders$5.00 Fragmentation of services and conflicting program rules have long impeded children's and families' access to needed care. This issue brief examines the federal government's role from the perspective of state officials responsible for children's mental health programming. (February 2003)
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Failing to Qualify:The First Step to Failure in School?$5.00 The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, IDEA, is supposed to ensure that all children with disabilities have access to an appropriate public education. However, schools may be barring that access for many children with mental and emotional disorders by using inadequate assessment rules. This issue brief illustrates the need for federal policy changes to encourage earlier and more accurate identification of children with mental and emotional disorders under the IDEA. (February 2003)
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Covering Intensive Community-Based Child Mental Health Services Under Medicaid $6.00 Overview and six issue briefs summarize coverage of behavioral aides, intensive in-home services, child respite care, after-school programs, therapeutic summer camps and therapeutic nurseries/preschools. (10/01)
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No One’s Priority: The Plight of Children with Serious Mental Disorders in Medicaid Systems $12.00 No One's Priority examines whether Medicaid-eligible children in two states that had expanded the array of services listed in their state Medicaid plans were, in fact, receiving an expanded range of mental health services.
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Assessing Child Mental Health Services in New York $15.00 This report examines parents' experiences attempting to access mental health services for their Medicaid-eligible children. (Winter 2003)
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Assessing Child Mental Health Services in the Oregon Health Plan$15.00 A report on parents' experiences attempting to access mental health services for their Medicaid-eligible children (Fall 2002)
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No One's Priority and State Focus Group Reports $30.00 This bundle includes No One's Priority and the state focus group reports on which it is based. (Winter 2003)
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Making Sense of Medicaid for Children with Serious Emotional Disturbance $18.90 How states provide access to the most effective community-based services for children on Medicaid who need mental health care, including innovative approaches using Medicaid under managed care and fee-for service to finance wraparound services. (90 pp.) Click here for discounts on the purchase of five or more copies of this report.
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Where to Turn: Confusion in Medicaid Policies on Screening Children for Mental Health Needs $12.90 How states are failing to use Medicaid's Early Prevention Screening Detection and Treatment (EPSDT) mandate to identify children who need mental health services. Also includes recommendations for advocates, policymakers and program administrators. (18 pp.) Click here for discounts on the purchase of five or more copies of this report .
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Making Sense of Medicaid and Where to Turn (Set) $27.00 This package includes the Bazelon Center publications Making Sense of Medicaid for Children with Serious Emotional Disturbance and Where to Turn: Confusion in Medicaid Policies on Screening Children for Mental Health Needs. Click here for discounts on the purchase of five or more sets.
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Relinquishing Custody: The Tragic Result of Failure to Meet Children's Mental Health Needs $10.00 Why parents in half the states have to give up custody to get mental health services for their child, and what advocates can urge the federal and state governments to do about it. (84 pp.)
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Staying Together: Preventing Custody Relinquishment for Children's Access to Mental Health Services$4.00 A 32-page guide for family advocates produced by the Bazelon Center and the the Federation of Families for Children's Mental Health (November 1999)
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Litigation Strategies on Custody Relinquishment $4.00 This document offers an overview and analysis of lawsuits addressing the problem of parents' having to give up custody in order to access the mental health care a child needs.
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Making Child Welfare Work $12.40 How the R.C. lawsuit forged new partnerships to protect children and sustain families—the story of system reform from the bottom up and the rededication of a bureaucracy to focus on the children and families it is meant to serve. 126 pp. (7/98)
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Merging System of Care Principles with Civil Rights Law: Olmstead Planning for Children with Serious Emotional Disturbance $6.00 November 2001 review of states' planning for the development of community-based children's services
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Managed Behavioral Health Care for Children and Youth: A Family Advocate's Guide $9.95 Family advocate's guide includes a checklist of strategies to assure that state systems adhere to the recommended principles and handouts to copy for educating policymakers and managed care administrators. 34pp. (9/96) Click here for discounts on purchases of 15 or more copies of this report.
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Sistemas de Salud Integrales para Problemas de la Conducta de Niños y Adolescentes $9.95 Una guía para los defensores de familias incluye estrategias para insistir en que los sistemas estatales se restructuren de acerdo con los principios recomendados. 40 pp. (9/96) Incluye el folleto "Su Familia y los Sistemas de Salud Integral"
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Your Family and Managed Care $3.50 Clearly written booklet explains the workings, advantages and pitfalls of managed care for children with mental, emotional or behavioral disorders. Includes a family checklist to rate a managed care plan. (November 1996) Click here for discounts on the purchase of 15 or more copies of this report.
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Su Familia y el Sistema de Salud Integral $3.50 Click here for discounts on the purchase of 15 or more copies of this report.
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Can Managed Care Meet the Mental Health Needs of Very Young Children?$3.00 Ten-page issue paper with advocacy tips for influencing a state's planning. (Oct. 1996)
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A Blueprint for Coalition-Building to Address the Needs of Very Young Children $9.80 How groups can coalesce to address the needs of very young children and their families with mental health and/or substance-abuse issues. Volume I discusses issues, priorities, financing and steps; volume II is the blueprint with worksheets. 76 pp. (9/98)
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Defining "Medically Necessary" Services to Protect Children $7.00 Policy Paper #5 on Contracting for Managed Behavioral Health Care. Contends that current definitions ignore children's special needs and proposes a new approach with a model definition. 24 pp (April 1998)
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Assessing Report Cards $5.00 Policy Paper #4 on Contracting for Managed Behavioral Health Care. Compares three tools for assessing quality of managed behavioral health: HEDIS, PERMS l.0 and a CMHS consumer-oriented report card—the only one we recommend. 6 pp. (June 1997)
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Customer Satisfaction in Children's Services $7.00 Policy Paper #6 on Contracting for Managed Behavioral Health Care. Analyzes barriers to successful appeals and proposes system design and policies to ensure that a family's concerns are heard when a child is denied needed services. 32 pp. (January 1999)
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An Evaluation of EPSDT Screening Tools $5.00 Policy Paper #3 on Contracting for Managed Behavioral Health Care. Compares 15 states' screening tools for children's mental health problems. 6 pp. (June 1997)
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SSI Help for Children with Disabilities$3.00 Handbook for families and advocates on what parents need to know and do for their child to qualify for SSI disability benefits. 12 pp. (12/97) Email pubs@bazelon.org for information on artwork for nonprofit organizations to print for free distribution. Click here for discounts on the purchase of six or more copies of this report.
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SSI—Ayuda para Niños con Incapacidades $3.00 The Spanish-language version of the Bazelon Center's A 20-page handbook for families and advocates on what parents need to know and do for their child to qualify for SSI disability benefits. (December 1997)
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Moving On: Federal Programs to Assist Transition-Age Youth with Serious Mental Health Conditions$21.00 CY-8 Moving On is a collection of fact sheets providing essential information about 57 federal programs that can assist transition-age youth with serious mental health conditions. Areas covered range from mental health and substance abuse services to education, housing and juvenile justice. Bulk discounts available on request. 166 pages, November 2005.
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Moving On: Analysis of Federal Programs Funding Services for Transition-Age Youth with Serious Mental Health Conditions $6.50 CY-9 An analysis of programs that can assist transition-age youth with serious mental health conditions. Areas covered range from mental health and substance abuse services to education, housing and juvenile justice. This analysis is based on a collection of fact sheets on 57 federal programs, available for download or purchase here.
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Managed Behavioral Health Care for Children and Youth: A Family Advocate's Guide (Spanish) $9.95 The Spanish version of the family advocate's guide includes a checklist of strategies to assure that state systems adhere to the recommended principles and handouts to copy for educating policymakers and managed care administrators. 34pp. (9/96) Click here for discounts on purchases of 15 or more copies of this report.
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