Opportunities and Challenges in Expanding Community-Based Systems of Care
Monday, October 22
8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. (separate registration)
Sponsored by the AACAP Work Group on Community-Based Systems of Care for Children with Serious Emotional Disorders
Online and Advanced Registration are closed.
Click here to download the Registration Form 
This program brings together national and state experts to define optimal approaches in meeting the needs of children with mental illness in systems of care. It focuses on several states that have experienced class action suits for failure to adhere to federal Medicaid law supporting provision of intensive home and community-based services for youth with serious emotional disturbances and addresses the supportive evidence behind this approach.
Class action law suits have had a significant impact in promoting system transformation for children’s mental health care, particularly for youth who are at risk of out-of-home placement within the mental health, child welfare, juvenile justice, and education systems.
This symposium describes the process that Hawaii and Arizona experienced because of law suits in the 80s and 90s, and the outcomes and improvement of services that followed these consent decrees, as well as the status of services today in these states. Attendees hear from stakeholders in Massachusetts who are entering an implementation phase of the judgment against the state. They will give local perspectives on opportunities and challenges as Massachusetts embarks on its effort to provide for early screening for the Medicaid-insured youth at large, and for intensive home and community-based services for the approximately 15,000 Medicaid-insured youth statewide who require higher levels of care.
Following this review is a discussion of the impact of intensive community-based treatment approaches on traditional child psychiatric residential and inpatient care, featuring Gary Blau, Ph.D., Director of the Children’s Branch of the Center for Mental Health Services. The symposium concludes with a review of the evidence for intensive homeand community-based care as well as the evidence relating to residential and hospital care, by Barbara Burns, Ph.D.
The cost of the symposium is $75.00 per member for pre-registrants (before September 17, 2007), $100 after and onsite (if available). Medical students and residents are FREE, but must register. The fee includes a continental breakfast and CME credits. Please visit www.aacap.org/cs/ 2007SpecialProgram to register online, fax the registration form below to Jennifer Medicus at 202.966.1944, or mail it with your payment (checks should be made payable to AACAP) to AACAP, 3615 Wisconsin Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20016. Confirmations will be mailed to you within three weeks of receipt of your registration. Registrations received after September 17 may not receive a confirmation. Space is limited—register early! For further information about the program, and scholarship opportunities for residents, please contact Jennifer Medicus at 202.966.7300, ext 137; jmedicus@aacap.org.
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