Health Tools & Resources
Integrated Health Policy
Federal initiative to integrated care through Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics (CCBHCs)
Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics (CCBHCs) ensure access to coordinated comprehensive behavioral health care. CCBHCs are required to serve anyone who requests care for mental health or substance use, regardless of their ability to pay, place of residence, or age.
CCBHCs impact report
Data show that CCBHCs are improving health & well-being.
CCBHCs and justice systems
CCBHCs provide a solution for state & local policymakers to link justice-involved individuals to mental health & substance use care.
Medicaid expansion improves access to behavioral health care
A growing body of research finds that expansion is associated with improvements in access to care & outcomes related to substance use disorder & mental health care.
Best practices in integrated behavioral health
This report offers a guide for policymakers, providers, funders, and advocates interested in promoting integrated behavioral health and working systematically toward achieving its promise.
Patient voice in value-based purchasing
This tool can be used by the patient community, physicians, health systems, and payers to evaluate the patient-centeredness of value models, and to guide value model developers on the meaningful incorporation of patient engagement throughout their processes.
Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics (CCBHCs) ensure access to coordinated comprehensive behavioral health care. CCBHCs are required to serve anyone who requests care for mental health or substance use, regardless of their ability to pay, place of residence, or age.
CCBHCs impact report
Data show that CCBHCs are improving health & well-being.
CCBHCs and justice systems
CCBHCs provide a solution for state & local policymakers to link justice-involved individuals to mental health & substance use care.
Medicaid expansion improves access to behavioral health care
A growing body of research finds that expansion is associated with improvements in access to care & outcomes related to substance use disorder & mental health care.
Best practices in integrated behavioral health
This report offers a guide for policymakers, providers, funders, and advocates interested in promoting integrated behavioral health and working systematically toward achieving its promise.
Patient voice in value-based purchasing
This tool can be used by the patient community, physicians, health systems, and payers to evaluate the patient-centeredness of value models, and to guide value model developers on the meaningful incorporation of patient engagement throughout their processes.
Health Tools
Daily briefing about health policy in the media
Kaiser Health News' daily summary of health policy coverage by the national media.
What would happen if health care in your state improved?
Use this interactive tool to see the gains that your state could achieve.
CCBHC online toolkit
AHA physical & behavioral health care resources, podcasts, & webinars
Access numerous tools & resources on integrated behavioral health care
Kaiser Health News' daily summary of health policy coverage by the national media.
What would happen if health care in your state improved?
Use this interactive tool to see the gains that your state could achieve.
CCBHC online toolkit
AHA physical & behavioral health care resources, podcasts, & webinars
Access numerous tools & resources on integrated behavioral health care
Self-Determination Tools & Resources
Self-Determination Policy
Long-term services and supports state scorecard
A State scorecard on Long-Term Services and Supports for older adults, people with physical disabilities, and family caregivers.
Streamlining Medicaid Home & Community-Based Services
HCBS programs have existed for 3 decades, but only recently is their widespread use being promoted to finance services for adults with serious mental illnesses. Since HCBS can be difficult to implement for this population, policy makers are calling for streamlining the program to incentive its use by states.
Self-determination and supported decision-making
Learn how to support individuals with disabilities to take charge of their own lives.
Intersectional policy analysis on mental health self-directed care
This intersectional policy analysis framework promotes equity across identity locations to examine the potential use of self-directed care financing approaches in the Canadian mental health system.
A State scorecard on Long-Term Services and Supports for older adults, people with physical disabilities, and family caregivers.
Streamlining Medicaid Home & Community-Based Services
HCBS programs have existed for 3 decades, but only recently is their widespread use being promoted to finance services for adults with serious mental illnesses. Since HCBS can be difficult to implement for this population, policy makers are calling for streamlining the program to incentive its use by states.
Self-determination and supported decision-making
Learn how to support individuals with disabilities to take charge of their own lives.
Intersectional policy analysis on mental health self-directed care
This intersectional policy analysis framework promotes equity across identity locations to examine the potential use of self-directed care financing approaches in the Canadian mental health system.
Self-Determination Tools
One-stop source on mental health SDC
Toolkit with information, policy scans, and practice tools to implement mental health self-directed care.
Comprehensive guide for implementing mental health SDC
This step-by-step guide describes how to design and implement self-directed mental health care in local community settings. It details the structure, policies, and outcomes of a program model that has been rigorously evaluated and shown to produce superior outcomes at equivalent costs when compared to traditional care.
Advocacy toolkit for implementing HCBS Rule
Toolkit to help advocates organize for implementation of the new Home and Community Based Services (HCBS) Settings Rules in their states.
Human services provider agency toolkit for self-determination
This guide contains strategies and resources to assist home and community-based human services providers (HCBS) in championing self-determination among the people they serve.
Toolkit with information, policy scans, and practice tools to implement mental health self-directed care.
Comprehensive guide for implementing mental health SDC
This step-by-step guide describes how to design and implement self-directed mental health care in local community settings. It details the structure, policies, and outcomes of a program model that has been rigorously evaluated and shown to produce superior outcomes at equivalent costs when compared to traditional care.
Advocacy toolkit for implementing HCBS Rule
Toolkit to help advocates organize for implementation of the new Home and Community Based Services (HCBS) Settings Rules in their states.
Human services provider agency toolkit for self-determination
This guide contains strategies and resources to assist home and community-based human services providers (HCBS) in championing self-determination among the people they serve.
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