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JBC backs youth system-of-care steps: approves departmental request, delays child-welfare capitation change and funds a workforce training center with oversight
Summary
The Joint Budget Committee approved the Department of Human Services'youth system-of-care funding request, authorized drafting of legislation to delay transferring child-welfare residential placements into capitation, and approved funding and drafting authority for a workforce capacity center subject to a two-year sunset and reporting requirements.
The Joint Budget Committee took several policy and drafting actions on the Department of Human Services'youth system-of-care proposal, which the department framed as necessary both to comply with a child-welfare settlement agreement and to implement a statewide system of care for children with high behavioral-health needs.
Amanda Bickle, JBC staff, and a Department presenter (transcript label "Ms. Pope") described the seven-step system-of-care plan the department has developed; a key constraint identified by the department and by providers was a lack of trained, certified providers for "high-fidelity wraparound" and intensive care coordination. The department proposed redirecting some funding to a workforce capacity center (a…
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