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Welcome to the November 2024 issue of Prenatal - 5: Grow & Thrive - HCA’s monthly newsletter about our behavioral health work in the early years of life. We hope that this newsletter helps build shared awareness of HCA’s efforts in this area and provides a centralized place to stay up to date on what’s new and happening. |
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The survey will help HCA to develop behavioral health comparison payment rates, which will provide transparent benchmarks for Medicaid-funded behavioral health services. Providers who deliver services under Section 13d Rehabilitative Services of Washington’s Medicaid State Plan should complete the survey.
These providers include:
- Mental health and substance use disorder outpatient and inpatient provider
- WISe providers
- PACT providers
- New Journeys providers
While this survey is not specific to behavioral health services for the prenatal – five population, your participation is important. This survey will inform HCA's minimum fee schedule for certain services in CY 2026. Survey responses are due January 10, 2025.
Additional questions? Please email Apple Health.
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The MHAYC Provider Spotlight series supports providers implement MHAYC at their organizations. Each spotlight will focus on different part of MHAYC process and highlight organizations using it.
January 23, 2024 | 11 a.m. to noon: In this session, providers will share about screening tools they use as part of the assessment process, as well as how they work with other providers, like pediatricians and early childhood educators, to facilitate referrals and gather collateral
Want to learn more? Visit HCA’s IECMH webpage to view recordings and slides from past Spotlights, including our October spotlight on .
If you are a provider and want to learn more or join, attend the virtual open house. There are two options:
- December 5 | 11 a.m. to noon
- December 10 | 9 a.m. to 10 a.m.
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A community health worker (CHW) is a frontline public health worker who is a trusted member of or has a unique understanding of the community served. This trusting relationship enables the worker to serve as a liaison between health and social services and the community to facilitate access to services and improve the quality and cultural competence of service delivery.
Early Relational Health CHWs focus on serving children ages 0-5 and their families, by helping to identify and address developmental needs, strengthening caregiver-child relationships, and connecting families to essential resources that promote emotional and social-wellbeing.
Early Relational Health CHWs provide three vital services:
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Informal counseling
- Assist families with understanding recommendations & diagnoses.
- Provide education, skills, and tools to families and caregivers to build resiliency and self-advocacy skills.
- Advocate for and facilitate family/caregiver inclusion in decision-making around the services their child is receiving or might receive.
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Social support
- Aid families in setting health goals and addressing identified needs.
- Linking families to assistance programs for food, housing, and other social needs.
- Ensuring access to family early childhood services.
- Facilitate continuity of care by providing follow-up.
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Outreach
- Partnering with community organizations to reach at-risk families.
- Hosting support groups for families.
- Conducting home/school visits to identify needs and connect families with resources.
With the support of CHWs, parents and caregivers of infants and young children have a better understanding of their child’s diagnosis, and feel involved, informed, and in control of their child’s care. With the trust built with their CHW, families have more access to resources and services.
If you have any questions about the Community Health Worker grant program, please email Nikki Banks.
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You can find earlier editions of this newsletter on our IECMH webpage, under IECMH updates.
Prenatal – 5: Grow & Thrive is also a spin-off newsletter of HCA’s Prenatal – 25: Thrive newsletter, which focuses on behavioral health for the entire age span of pregnancy to early adulthood. If you missed it, check out the most recent edition of theP-25 Thrive newsletter.
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