Policy Brief: Improving Effectiveness of SSI/SSDI Advocacy Programs for Jail-Incarcerated Populations
By California Health Policy Strategies, LLC
California Health Policy Strategies, LLC, August 14, 2019
Policy Brief: Shifting the Paradigm for Mental Health Diversion: The Impact and Opportunity of AB 1810 and SB 215
By California Health Policy Strategies, LLC
California Health Policy Strategies, LLC, May 13, 2019
The enactment of AB 1810 and SB 2151 (2018) creates the opportunity for a fundamental paradigm shift that could dramatically improve care and reduce homelessness for Californians who have a mental illness and are arrested and prosecuted in the criminal justice system. These new laws establish a process for diversion by placing them into mental …
White Paper Submitted to the California Homeless Coordinating and Financing Council. Supporting the Prison and Jail Reentry Population – A Strategy for Reducing Unsheltered Homelessness in California
By California Health Policy Strategies, LLC
California Health Policy Strategies, LLC, April 1, 2019
Policy Brief: Co-Occurring Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder (COD) Treatment Coordination Models
By California Health Policy Strategies, LLC
California Health Policy Strategies, LLC, March 12, 2019
This policy brief focuses on the coordination of treatment of co-occurring mental health and
substance use disorders (CODs) for individuals returning to the community following
incarceration. The gold standard for integrated services is when clients experience treatment
as seamless, with a consistent clinical approach, philosophy, and set of interventions and
recommendations from a joint clinical team. When this happens, the need to negotiate with
separate clinical teams, programs, or systems disappears.
Policy Brief: Toward a Meaningful Dashboard for Behavioral Health Services – Key metrics, trends, and charts for California’s 10 largest counties. March 2019
March 4, 2019
In setting expenditure priorities for behavioral health services, county decision makers should consider establishing policy goals that are based on measurable indices. This policy brief provides an example of a data dashboard that may help inform the decision-making process by comparing objective measures and trends among similar counties. The metrics included in the dashboard are …
Policy Brief: Toward a Comprehensive Model of Integration for Justice-Involved Individuals Using Medi-Cal Managed Care Organizations (MCO)s
By California Health Policy Strategies, LLC
California Health Policy Strategies, LLC, February 11, 2019
Policy Brief – Medicaid Managed Care Plans and Reentry: A Review of How Other States Using Medicaid Plans to Improve the Reentry of Prison and Jail Inmates
By California Health Policy Strategies, LLC
California Health Policy Strategies, LLC, January 31, 2019
When transitioning out of incarceration, some individuals face a “gap” in access to healthcare. Correctional facilities provide healthcare to incarcerated people, but there are serious challenges in providing care continuity as they return from custody into the community. Logistical complications, compounded by other challenges of reentry, can delay and/or prevent individuals from connecting to health …
Policy Brief: A Collaborative Approach for Patients with Diabetes – Bringing Together Health Plans, Community Health Centers, and Optometrists
By California Health Policy Strategies, LLC
California Health Policy Strategies, LLC, January 23, 2019
In 2010, diabetes was the 7th leading cause of death in the US with an estimated 25.8 million of the US population (8.3 percent) having diabetes, and of these, it is estimated that 7 million cases are undiagnosed.1 It is also estimated that another 79 million adults in the US have blood sugar levels in …
Comments Regarding Prison and Jail Reentry to the Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) – Coordinated Care Assessment Project
By California Health Policy Strategies, LLC
California Health Policy Strategies, LLC, December 21, 2018
CalHPS has managed the Reentry Health Project with support from the California Health Care Foundation. Our 2017 report focused on opportunities for improving care coordination and maximization of federal funds for medically fragile and seriously mentally ill reentry populations. Additional work and analysis have helped to further refine our recommendations.
Policy Brief: Unsheltered Homeless in California – Justice System Involvement and Mental Illness
By California Health Policy Strategies, LLC
California Health Policy Strategies, LLC, November 21, 2018
It is often assumed that a significant segment of the unsheltered homeless population in California has been involved with the criminal justice system in some way and/or is mentally ill. There are no statewide data to test these assumptions. This report estimates the number of unsheltered homeless individuals who have histories criminal justice system involvement …