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Advocates, hospitals and planners press for funding and data to expand children's crisis care and school-based services
Summary
Hospital and child-advocacy witnesses told the Childrens Committee HB 6,951 should fund 24/7 children's mobile crisis response, standardize school-based health-center data and shore up Medicaid payment rates that affect the childrens behavioral health workforce.
Hartford — Hospital, legal-aid and child-advocacy witnesses told the legislatures Childrens Committee the state should make permanent the expanded hours and funding for childrens mobile crisis teams, improve Medicaid reimbursement and adopt standardized reporting for school-based health centers to better guide policy.
The Center for Childrens Advocacy and other witnesses described a sustained rise in children seeking behavioral-health care in emergency departments and urged the committee to support components of HB 6,951, including a study of the crisis continuum, grants to sustain mobile crisis teams and a standardized data framework for school-based health centers.
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