kentucky youth first grant period august 1 2005-july 31 2008

KENTUCKY YOUTH FIRST

Grant Period

August 1 2005-July 31 2008

Cabinet for Health and Family Services

KY Youth First-Grant

• A 3 year grant from the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT)

• State infrastructure grant to build capacity to provide effective, accessible and affordable substance abuse treatment for youth and their families

• $400,000 per year


Goals & Objectives-Year 2

• To continue to enhance linkages among public and private agencies to better identify, refer, intervene, treat and finance services for adolescents who have substance use and co-occurring disorders and their families– Bring public and private agencies together to

develop better system-wide coordination of services

– Create a statewide strategic plan for increasing the quality and quantity of treatment services



• To continue to enhance training and clinical consultation supports and implementation expectations for adolescent treatment providers by encouraging use of best practices– Facilitate at least three statewide and six regional clinical

training events– Maintain the KASAC web page as a site for increasing

clinical effectiveness of providers (MHMR.ky.gov) – Improve departmental treatment standards– Identify existing credentialing/certification/licensing

provider standards



• To increase clinicians’ use of the adolescent KTOS baseline data collection system– Examine number of adolescents in treatment

including number of services received, diagnoses and retention rate

– Examine relationship of additional training with increased proportion of adolescent clients and retention rates

– Examine number of project activities and participants addressing adolescent treatment


Parent Support

Promote coordination and collaboration with family support organizations to strengthen services for youth, with or at risk of substance abuse and/or co-occurring problems


Interagency Collaboration

Link and coordinate with other service systems to promote comprehensive, integrated services for youth with substance abuse and/or co-occurring problems. Such service systems include mental health, health, juvenile justice, education, child welfare, and Medicaid.


Interagency Collaboration

Import tools, coordinate training, and support providers in the adoption of screening and assessment protocols that cross-walk to DSM-IV/ICD 10 criteria for substance abuse/dependence, mental health diagnoses, and ASAM Patient Placement Criteria, Version 2 - Revised


Financing

Coordinate the budget formulation and benefit plans (e.g., Medicaid services for adolescent treatment) of all State agencies that have responsibility for funds that may be used to support adolescent substance abuse treatment services, including screening, assessment, early intervention, treatment, family involvement in treatment, case management, and continuing care/aftercare.


Financing

Devise and implement strategies, in concert with all other State-agencies that may fund and/or regulate these services, to improve the access to treatment, increase capacity and quality, and expand the available continuum in communities and throughout the State implementing treatment interventions with a scientific evidence base for the population to be served.


Evidence-Based Practices

Identify barriers (fiscal, regulatory, and policy) that impede the adoption and provision of accessible evidence-based treatment across the full continuum of care recommended by the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM)


Evidence-Based Practices

Identify and provide linkages across the universe of discretionary federal and foundation-funded adolescent substance abuse treatment grant programs for the purpose of supporting and disseminating learning across the State-wide treatment system and to provide assistance to ensure sustainability and adoption of best/evidence based practices identified in these programs.


Licensing/Credentialing

Develop/improve State standards for licensure/certification/accreditation of programs that provide substance abuse treatment services for adolescents and their families.


Licensing/Credentialing

Develop/improve State standards for licensure/certification/credentialing of adolescent substance abuse treatment counselors.


Training

Identify, disseminate, and support training and technical assistance resources that expand the capacity and quality of adolescent substance abuse treatment throughout the State provider system, including cross-training for adolescent mental health and substance abuse treatment providers.


Training

Participate in and actively share learning across the community created by the States funded in this grant program to leverage training, support, dissemination, intervention adoption, and evaluation/research to improve the treatment system for youth and their families both intra-State and inter-State.


Training

Facilitate the development of a State-wide provider association for adolescent substance abuse treatment across programs and for counselors engaged in providing these services, regardless of the State or local system within which they work.


Training

Keep abreast of the research findings related to adolescent substance abuse treatment and disseminate this information State-wide in a form that is easily digested by clinical staff, providing insight on the application of the research to improve clinical practice at the program level.


System of Care

• Systems of Care is not a program — it is a philosophy of how care should be delivered.

• Systems of Care is an approach to services that recognizes – the importance of family, school and community,– seeks to promote the full potential of every child

and youth by addressing their physical, emotional, intellectual, cultural and social needs.


Continuum of Care vs. Systems of Care

Continuum of Care

Range of actual services/program elements and resources at varying levels of intensity

Systems of Care

Greater than the continuum, containing the service/program elements and resources and provisions for service coordination and integration.


System of Care

System of Care

Core Values Guiding Principles


Reclaiming Futures Model


Nine Key Elements of Effective Adolescent Treatment*

• Assessment and Treatment Matching • Comprehensive, Integrated Treatment Approach • Family Involvement in Treatment • Developmentally Appropriate Program • Engage and Retain Teens in Treatment • Qualified Staff • Gender and Cultural Competence • Continuing Care • Treatment Outcomes

*Drug Strategies is a nonprofit research institute that promotes more effective approaches to the nation's drug problems and support private and public efforts to reduce the demand for drugs through prevention, education, treatment, law enforcement and community initiatives.

kentucky youth first grant period august 1 2005-july 31 2008

Documents

adolescent treatment

treatment interventions

substance use

number of services

medicaid services

substance abusedependence

integrated services

finance services