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Improving Intensive Behavioral Health Services for Medicaid (IBHS)

The Department of Health Care Policy & Financing (HCPF) is working toward expanding and improving implementation of Intensive Behavioral Health Services that include intensive in-home and community-based mental health services, intensive care coordination, mobile crisis intervention, and stabilization services. This will support Colorado Medicaid beneficiaries under the age of 21 who have been diagnosed with a mental health or behavioral disorder and for whom these services are medically necessary. The improved services will be culturally relevant, family-centered, and child-driven so that these services are provided in the most integrated and least restrictive setting.

HCPF is holding a series of stakeholder engagement sessions to inform this work and the subsequent implementation plan. We need to hear from you so that we can create and implement a model that is effective in helping families. We hope to hear from families, county agencies, providers, intermediaries, and advocates about how they envision the delivery of these services.

In-person meetings were held across Colorado during the month of August and are complete.

Virtual and in-person sessions are scheduled for the month of September. These sessions will focus on different populations and locations, to create a more concentrated conversation. 

Anyone is welcome to attend any sessions. Please register in advance if you plan to attend. The content provided will be the same in each session.

General/Rural/Urban - Virtual Sessions

Session 2 will focus on rural-specific topics and session 3 will focus on urban-specific topics, while sessions 1 and 4 will be general:

Children Under 8 Years of Age - Virtual Session

A virtual session is scheduled to specifically discuss IBHS for children under 8 years of age. Register in advance if you plan to attend this specific virtual session:

Lived Experience - In-person and Virtual Sessions

HCPF will be working with Mental Health Colorado to have virtual and in-person meetings in September for youth and families with lived experience. Additional details will be provided in emails from Mental Health Colorado.

  • Grand Junction: 
    • When: Wednesday, September 18, 2024, at 10:00 AM. 
    • Where: 128 N. 5th Street, Grand Junction, CO 81501
    • Contact: Renee Smith
  • Denver:
    • When: Tuesday, September 24, 2024, at 2:00 PM
    • Where: 303 East 17th Avenue, 4th Floor, Denver, CO 80203, PhRMA East & West
  • Virtual:
    • Monday, September 16, 2024, at 10:00 AM
    • Monday, September 23, 2024, at 12:00 PM
    • Friday, September 27, 2024, at 3:30 PM
       

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