Webinar Replay: Improving Child Welfare Outcomes: Role of Behavioral Health and Child Welfare in Strengthening Families, Building Resilience, and Increasing Protective Factors
This webinar was held on July 20, 2021, was the eighth webinar in the series “Exploring the Landscape of Behavioral Healthcare,” covering the growing impact of behavioral healthcare on clinical outcomes and cost.
This eighth session featured HMA behavioral health, child welfare and Medicaid experts primed to specifically discuss strategies across child welfare and behavioral health to enhance family engagement and collaboration in increasing protective factors and family resilience.
Learning Objectives
- Learn options for designing policies and implementing infrastructure that support a multisystem response facilitating family engagement and improving protective factors.
- Learn about other successful state models for prevention and building family resilience.
- Learn key benchmarks for successful engagement and empowerment that can be incorporated into QI programs.
- Introduce and engage in dynamic discussion on the importance of the intersection of race equity, social justice, cultural humility, and responsiveness with family centered/multi-generational practice in addressing inequities.
Speakers
Doris Tolliver, JD, Principal, HMA
Uma Ahluwalia, MSW, MHA, Managing Principal, HMA
Susan Smith, Data Advocates, LLC
Annalisa Baker, MPH, LCSW, Senior Consultant, HMA