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.
TCB History
The law further directs the committee to assess and identify:
- Statutory and Budgetary changes to improve the children’s behavioral health system.
- Service Delivery Gaps and other missed opportunities to advance the State’s ability to offer families a set of streamlined, accessible, and responsive solutions.
- Strengths and Barriers that either support or hinder children’s behavioral health care.
- School-Based Behavioral Health Efforts that collaboratively support efforts to improve behavioral health outcomes for children.
- Disproportionate Behavioral Health Access and Outcomes for children of color and those in underserved communities such as rural parts of the state.
- Disproportionate access and outcomes across the behavioral health care system for children with developmental and intellectual disabilities.
- Quality Assurance framework(s) to maintain timely data analytics to improve both private and publicly operated behavioral health services, facilities, and programs capacity to streamline and centralize processes and operations with accountability and agility.
- Governance Structure to align state public policy and healthcare goals to ensure that all children and families, in urban, rural, and all other areas of the state, can access high-quality behavioral health care regardless of their ability to pay.
- Sustainable Workforce Needs to support the evolving behavioral health needs of children.
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