We all have mental health - even babies! Just as we care for children's physical health we must also take care of their mental health. We do this by supporting their social-emotional development. By helping children to learn social and emotional skills, you can build stronger relationships with children and families. You can also reduce challenging behavior in children that you work with. These resource are intended to: 1) Educate professionals about social-emotional development and early childhood mental health; 2) Offer tips on how to support healthy social-emotional development in early childhood programs; 3) Support communication and outreach to families.
The Colorado legislature has requested information from both the Department of Health Care Policy and Financing along with the Department of Military and Veterans Affairs to determine the costs and benefits associated with identifying veterans with Medicaid and assisting or encouraging them to access specific additional Veterans Affairs (VA) services in Colorado. Colorado may have an opportunity to save state general fund dollars for Medicaid recipients by identifying individuals eligible for and assisting with enrolling them to receive benefits from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. This report specifically addresses questions outlined in the Legislative Requests for Information for FY 2018-19 ("Multiple-Departments LRFI#4").
Medicaid buy-in offers health care coverage for children with disabilities whose family earnings and resources might otherwise make them ineligible for Medicaid.
The Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing (HCPF) has been working toward improving services and supports provided to children in the state with both an intellectual or developmental disability (IDD) and a mental health condition. Meeting the unique needs of these children can be particularly challenging because services, programs, providers and the entities responsible for the coordination of supports are typically determined by an individual's disability type or diagnosis. However, determining whether an individual's behavioral or emotional symptoms derive from an intellectual or developmental disability, organic brain pathology, or a mental illness, is complicated.
