Name
Medicaid Policy to Practice: Scaling Pediatric Behavioral Health Promotion to California Families
Description
California’s groundbreaking Medicaid reform effort includes an $800M "Dyadic Care Benefit," offering primary care-based integrated behavioral health promotion and prevention for ~5.5M beneficiaries ages 0-20. This session describes an academic medical center-based technical assistance center’s support of statewide adoption, highlighting opportunities and needs to streamline dissemination and foster practice transformation.
Speakers
Co-Authors
Carissa Avalos, MPH, Senior Population Health Policy Specialist, University of California, San Francisco Center for Advancing Dyadic Care Pediatrics Technical Assistance Center, San Francisco, CA
Cherie Falvey, MPH, Quality Improvement and Evaluation Coordinator, University of California, San Francisco Center for Advancing Dyadic Care Pediatrics Technical Assistance Center, San Francisco, CA
Kathryn Hallinan, LMFT, HealthySteps Specialist, Zuckerburg San Francisco General Hospital, Children’s Health Center, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Kathryn Margolis, PhD, Associate Clinical Professor, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Shay-Lee Perez, PsyD, Technical Assistance Manager, University of California, San Francisco Center for Advancing Dyadic Care Pediatrics Technical Assistance Center, San Francisco, CA
Yessica Green Rosas, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Kathryn Whistler, PsyD, HealthySteps Specialist, Zuckerburg San Francisco General Hospital, Children’s Health Center, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Cherie Falvey, MPH, Quality Improvement and Evaluation Coordinator, University of California, San Francisco Center for Advancing Dyadic Care Pediatrics Technical Assistance Center, San Francisco, CA
Kathryn Hallinan, LMFT, HealthySteps Specialist, Zuckerburg San Francisco General Hospital, Children’s Health Center, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Kathryn Margolis, PhD, Associate Clinical Professor, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Shay-Lee Perez, PsyD, Technical Assistance Manager, University of California, San Francisco Center for Advancing Dyadic Care Pediatrics Technical Assistance Center, San Francisco, CA
Yessica Green Rosas, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Kathryn Whistler, PsyD, HealthySteps Specialist, Zuckerburg San Francisco General Hospital, Children’s Health Center, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Content Level
Novice
Tags
Population and public health, Prevention, Technical assistance
Session Type
Concurrent
SIG or Committee
Pediatrics (PEDs)
Objective 1
Describe the research and population health benefits of integrating dyadic behavioral health into pediatric primary care.
Objective 2
Identify how psychologists’ training in systems, evaluation, and consultation position them well to build the workforce, develop programming, and act as behavioral policy advocates when redesigning systems of care.
Objective 3
Discuss the challenges of transforming policy to practice, and potential solutions.
Content Reference 1
Margolis, K. L., Buchholz, M., Charlot-Swilley, D., Serrano, V., Herbst, R., Meiselman, E., Talmi, A., Kahhan, N. A., Schurman, J. V., Duncan, C. L., Junger, K. W., Kahhan, N. A., & Junger, K. W. (2022). Early childhood integrated behavioral health: A promoter of equity in pediatric care. Clinical Practice in Pediatric Psychology, 10(3), 263–272. https://doi.org/10.1037/cpp0000454
Content Reference 2
Pageler, N. M., Webber, E. C., & Lund, D. P. (2021). Implications of the 21st Century Cures Act in pediatrics. Pediatrics (Evanston), 147(3), 1-. https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2020-034199
Content Reference 3
Platt, R. E., Spencer, A. E., Burkey, M. D., Vidal, C., Polk, S., Bettencourt, A. F., Jain, S., Stratton, J., & Wissow, L. S. (2018). What’s known about implementing co-located paediatric integrated care: a scoping review. International Review of Psychiatry (Abingdon, England), 30(6), 242–271. https://doi.org/10.1080/09540261.2018.1563530
Content Reference 4
Reiter, J. T., Dobmeyer, A. C., & Hunter, C. L. (2018). The Primary Care Behavioral Health (PCBH) model: An overview and operational definition. Journal of Clinical Psychology in Medical Settings, 25(2), 109–126. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10880-017-9531-x
Content Reference 5
Zero to Three (2021, June 3). HealthySteps evidence summary.
www.healthysteps.org/resource/healthysteps-outcomes-summary/