The Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services https://mha.ohio.gov announced that Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) in the Center for Innovative Practices CIP) at the Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education https://case.edu/socialwork/begun/center-innovative-practices-cip has been awarded a two year $3.6 million contract.
For 20 years, CIP has provided support to community-based behavioral health providers to implement evidence-based and evidence-supported treatments for youth and families. The CIP funding will be used to coordinate a new statewide Child and Adolescent Behavioral Health Center of Excellence (CABH COE).
The CABH COE will evaluate the effectiveness of services and the need to expand service and care coordination capacity for children with complex behavioral health needs and their families.
CABH COE will also provide orientation, training, coaching, mentoring, and other functions as needed to support Ohio’s statewide child caring provider network. The CABH COE will also work with state partner agencies to support the addition and/or expansion, implementation, sustainability, and/or monitoring and evaluation of other services and processes, to expand access to further develop telehealth capacity.