FFPSA & OhioRISE: Overview of Ohio's Core Services

Course overview

Trainer/Presenter: Bobbi Beale, Senior Research Associate, Trainer, Consultant; Center for Innovative Practices; CWRU & Richard Shepler, Director; CWRU Center for Innovative Practices, Begun Center We all want to do better for the people we serve. The new managed-care approach, OhioRISE, will focus on the children and youth with serious behavioral health needs, often involved in multiple public youth-serving systems and their families. Their treatment and support requirements transcend any one public system, so the new plan of action includes using a single managed-care plan to ensure the coordination of and access to services. The ultimate goal of OhioRISE is to keep youth in their homes, communities, and schools by assessing for and delivering the appropriate intensity of services needed, thus reducing unnecessary out-of-home placement and potential custody relinquishment. Much of the MSY advocacy efforts focused on the need to end custody relinquishment when it is based solely on the ability to pay or lack of access to the needed services. State and local level partnering across the juvenile justice, behavioral health, developmental disabilities, child welfare, and education systems, will further this goal. Join us as we clarify who is eligible for OhioRISE and unpack those services and supports. The proposed array of covered services is quite robust and based on the data regarding the treatment and support needs of these children, youth, and their families.