History
The Transforming Children’s Behavioral Health Policy and Planning Committee (“TCB”) was established in 2023 by Public Act 23-90 and mandated to evaluate the availability and effectiveness of prevention, early intervention, and treatment services for children’s behavioral health, substance use disorders, and general well-being of children aged from birth to eighteen.
What is PA 23-90?
Public Act 14-217, passed in 2014, is a Connecticut budget-implementing law that put into effect many policy and program changes for the state’s 2015 fiscal year. It restored funding for programs like rental rebates, expanded medical assistance and coverage for certain services, and strengthened oversight of health and human service programs by extending the state’s False Claims Act. The act also introduced new rules for emergency medical services, requiring municipalities to update response plans and setting performance standards for service providers. In addition, it required more transparency in healthcare reporting and called for studies on issues such as hospital fees, making it a wide-ranging law aimed at improving accountability, access, and the effective use of state resources.
Mission & Goals
TCB Committee exists to strengthen and align Connecticut’s system of care through legislative recommendations and strategic reforms aimed at improving access to high-quality services and promoting children’s behavioral health and well-being through a sustainable continuum of care. As a bridgebuilder, TCB will engage system-wide stakeholders, use data to assess gaps and system inefficiencies, identify cross-system alignment, and make recommendations that address and overcome the root obstacles in order to promote the well-being and resilience of all children and families. We define success as achieving a behavioral health system that is accessible to all children and provides appropriate, affordable, high-quality behavioral health services at the right time and place to ensure the most positive outcomes so that Connecticut’s children can thrive well into the future.
Our Strategic Plan
To build on the progress achieved so far, the JJPOC, in partnership with the Tow Youth Justice Institute at the University of New Haven, worked over the course of the last six months on developing a new strategic plan for the next three years (2021 to 2024) that continues the four goals outlined in the 2019 – 2021 plan.
The strategic plan serves as a roadmap created to guide future work. First and foremost, this strategic plan is a statement for a shared vision: to achieve positive youth outcomes for safer and healthier communities. This requires a fair, effective and equitable youth justice system.
Memberships
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Meeting Dates
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Legislation Recommendations
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Strategic Plans
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