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CDSS, DHCS push BH Connect to align mental-health, CANS and foster-care services; counties support unified CANS
Summary
CDSS and county representatives described BH Connect elements — joint home visits, activity funds, family-maintenance CFTs and one CANS — intended to integrate behavioral health and child-welfare services; counties and LAO asked for more detailed fiscal displays and implementation timing.
The panel reviewed BH Connect, the state initiative to align behavioral-health services and child-welfare practice, including joint home visits by child-welfare and specialty mental-health staff, activity stipends for youth, and alignment of the CANS tool between CDSS and DHCS.
Angie Schwartz of CDSS summarized the implementation schedule: guidance for family-maintenance child-and-family-team meetings released…
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