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State agencies unveil prenatal–25 behavioral health dashboard
Summary
Health Care Authority, DSHS RDA and DCYF leaders previewed a descriptive dashboard covering Apple Health enrollees aged 0–25, expanded through fiscal 2024, designed to make system-level behavioral health data more accessible for planning and quality improvement.
The Health Care Authority and partner agencies on the webinar introduced a new prenatal-through-age-25 behavioral health dashboard intended to give policymakers and program staff a shared view of treatment need and outcomes for Apple Health enrollees.
"We're trying to work to find ways to make data more accessible," said Diana Cochrell, section manager for the prenatal-through-25 behavioral health team in the Division of Behavioral Health and Recovery at the Health Care Authority, who opened the presentation. The dashboard aggregates integrated administrative sources to report prevalence, diagnoses and ten outcome measures for young people.
Bridget Poppel, senior research scientist in the DSHS Research and Data Analysis Division, said the product is descriptive rather than causal and is meant for planning, quality improvement and cross-system coordination. "This is a descriptive dashboard," she said, noting the tool answers "what the rate of something is" but not why trends change.
Presenters said the 2026 update extends the age range through 25, pulls data through fiscal 2024, and adds more detail on intellectual and developmental disability diagnoses, trauma- and stressor-related disorders, and a suicidal ideation outcome measure. They also urged users to consider measurement limitations such as the dashboard's focus on Apple Health enrollees and a two-year measurement window.
