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Promoting Mental and Behavioral Health Resources to Help Children and Teens
Enroll in Coverage and Access Care
The
Connecting Kids to Coverage National Campaign Invites You to Attend a
Webinar:
Promoting
Mental and Behavioral Health Resources to Help
Children and Teens
Enroll in Coverage and Access Care
Thursday, April 29, 2021
2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. ET
Medicaid and the Children’s Health
Insurance Program (CHIP) cover essential mental and behavioral health
services for kids and teens. For Mental Health Awareness Month, observed in
May, the Connecting Kids to Coverage National Campaign (the Campaign) webinar
will cover the current landscape of mental health service usage among
children and teens, as well as offer ideas organizations can use to help
children and teens in their communities access these important mental and
behavioral health services.
Prior to the COVID-19 public health emergency, as many as 1 in 6 U.S.
children between the ages of 6 and 17 had a treatable mental health disorder.
With additional stressors, such as lack of routine and virtual learning,
there has been a surge of anxiety and depression in young people since the
start of the pandemic. Despite this surge, mental health services declined
sharply among children age 18 and under. Although delivery of care via
telehealth has helped connect children to important mental health services,
data has shown that many children and teens are still not getting the care
they need.
Join this webinar for the latest data on the use of mental health services,
hear what partners are doing to help connect children to care, and learn
about resources your organization can use in outreach and enrollment efforts.
Learn about the Campaign’s many resources to promote mental and behavioral
health on InsureKidsNow.gov, which include a digital
video, social media, text messages, and newsletter articles.
Webinar speakers feature:
- Melinda Baldwin, Chief of the Center for Mental Health Services at
the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
- Kim Proctor,
Technical Director, Data and Systems Group, Center for Medicaid &
CHIP Services, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
- Jamie Poslosky,
Senior Director, Advocacy Communications, American Academy of Pediatrics
- Gillian Ray,
Vice President External Relations, Children’s Hospital Association
- Kelly English,
PhD, LICSW, Director of the Children’s Behavioral Health Knowledge
Center, Child, Youth, & Family Services Division, Massachusetts
Department of Mental Health
- Darshana Panchal, MPH, Outreach Contractor, Connecting Kids to
Coverage National Campaign, Porter Novelli Public Services
REGISTER HERE
We Want to Hear from You!
The Campaign wants to hear how organizations like yours are
helping to connect children and teens to mental and behavioral health
services. Send us an email at ConnectingKids@cms.hhs.gov.
And visit our website to access slides and recordings from
previous Campaign webinars.
Stay Connected with the
Campaign
- Share our Campaign materials. Our ever-growing, multi-lingual Outreach Tool Library features a
variety of targeted resources to use in your outreach and enrollment
efforts, available in multiple formats.
- Contact us.
To get more involved with the Campaign, contact us via email at ConnectingKids@cms.hhs.gov.
- Follow the Campaign on Twitter. Remember to re-tweet or share our messages from @IKNGov with your social media network
and be sure to use our #Enroll365 and #KidsEnroll hashtags in your
posts.
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