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Providing Mental Health Services to TANF

Providing Mental Health Services to TANF Recipients: Program Design Choices and Implementation Challenges in Four States

Contents Policy Context Rationale for Providing Mental Health Services to Welfare Recipients Methodology Overview of the Study Sites Key Choices in Designing and Providing Mental Health Services Key Implementation Issues General Conclusions
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Community Resilience and Recovery Initiative:

Community Resilience and Recovery Initiative: Final Evaluation Report

In 2010, in response to the recession and the slow recovery process, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) launched the Community Resilience and Recovery Initiative (CRRI). CRRI was a multi-level, place-based demonstration project aimed at helping grantee communities cope with the ongoing behavioral health effec
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Strategies for Measuring the Quality of

Strategies for Measuring the Quality of Psychotherapy: A White Paper to Inform Measure Development and Implementation

Various types of psychotherapy can benefit people who experience depression, anxiety, and other common mental disorders. However, the extent to which these psychotherapies are available and delivered effectively is largely unknown. In the context of health care reforms that encourage performance measurement, a strong set of measures focused on psy
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Strategies for Integrating and Coordinating Care

Strategies for Integrating and Coordinating Care for Behavioral Health Populations: Case Studies ofFour States

This report describes the different strategies that four states--Louisiana, North Carolina, Tennessee and Vermont--are utilizing to improve the integration and coordination of care for individuals with mental health and substance use disorders. These strategies include introducing new managed care arrangements and care coordination mechanisms,
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Evaluation of the SAMHSA Primary and Behavioral

Evaluation of the SAMHSA Primary and Behavioral Health Care Integration (PBHCI) Grant Program: Final Report

This report describes the RAND Corporation’s evaluation of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s (SAMHSA’s) Primary and Behavioral Health Care Integration (PBHCI) grants program. The PBHCI grants were designed to improve the overall wellness and physical health status of people with serious mental illness and/or
From: Evaluation of the SAMHSA Primary and Behavioral Health Care Integration (PBHCI) Grant Program: Final Report
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Developing Medicare and Medicaid Substance Abuse

Developing Medicare and Medicaid Substance Abuse Treatment Spending Estimates

This is a supplemental report to the final report of a study jointly funded by ONDCP and ASPE (Medicaid Substance Abuse Treatment Spending: Findings Report). This technical report provides more detail on the methods used to make estimates, and it also describes how MPR would make similar estimates of Medicare funding for substance abuse treatment,
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Medicaid Substance Abuse Treatment Spending:

Medicaid Substance Abuse Treatment Spending: Findings Report

Medical expenditures to treat a SA disorder were $3.4 billion in calendar year (CY) 2008, received by 1.1 million persons averaging $3,000 per service user per year. This spending amounted to slightly less than 1.0% of the total $334 billion spent on Medicaid, and provided care to about 1.9% of the 61 million persons covered by Medicaid. [131 PDF
From: Medicaid Substance Abuse Treatment Spending: Findings Report
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Affordable Care Act Expands Mental Health and

Affordable Care Act Expands Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Benefits and Federal Parity Protections for Over 62 Million Americans

The Affordable Care Act builds on the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008 to extend federal parity protections to 62 million Americans. The parity law aims to ensure that when coverage for mental health and substance use conditions is provided, it is generally comparable to coverage for medical and surgical care.
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Medicaid Financing for Services in Supportive

Medicaid Financing for Services in Supportive Housing for Chronically Homeless People: Current Practices and Opportunities

This Issue Paper describes the ways that Medicaid is being used now and might be used in the future under provisions of the Affordable Care Act of 2010 to serve chronically homeless people. [67 PDF pages]
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Public Housing Agencies and Permanent Supportive

Public Housing Agencies and Permanent Supportive Housing for Chronically Homeless People

This Issue Paper looks at innovative ways that public housing agencies are supporting housing for formerly homeless people in the communities the researchers visited. [29 PDF pages]
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Health, Housing, and Service Supports for Three

Health, Housing, and Service Supports for Three Groups of People Experiencing Chronic Homelessness

This Issue Paper describes three subgroups of the people experiencing chronic homelessness, and the services and housing configurations currently supporting them. [48 PDF pages]
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Establishing Eligibility for SSI for Chronically

Establishing Eligibility for SSI for Chronically Homeless People

This Issue Paper describes innovative approaches to establishing SSI eligibility. [33 PDF pages]
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Overview and Inventory of HHS Efforts to Assist

Overview and Inventory of HHS Efforts to Assist Incarcerated and Reentering Individuals and their Families

The purpose of this document is to help Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) agencies know the full range of programs and services in the Department that currently address the needs of incarcerated individuals and their families and to understand what research and evaluation efforts are underway to identify evidence-based practices.
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Role of Religiosity in the Lives of the Low-

Role of Religiosity in the Lives of the Low-Income Population: A Comprehensive Review of the Evidence

This report is a comprehensive literature review and descriptive synthesis of the state of the research on the influence of religiosity and spirituality in the lives of the US low-income population. Findings are presented in six main areas: marriage and relationships, parenting, youth, mental and physical health, substance use, and crime and viole
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Evaluation of Parity in the Federal Employees

Evaluation of Parity in the Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB) Program: Final Report

The evaluation of the 2001 OPM policy of parity for mental health and substance abuse (MH/SA) health care insurance benefits in the FEHB Program was conducted primarily to assess the impact of this policy on utilization and cost. Would increases be within reasonable limits or would the increase to utilization and cost render MH/SA parity unafforda
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Providing Mental Health Services to TANF

Providing Mental Health Services to TANF Recipients: Program Design Choices And Implementation Challenges in Four States

This report profiles the efforts of four states to address the mental health needs of welfare recipients. The study was designed (1) to identify and provide detailed information about the design and structure of mental health services developed by state and local welfare offices to address the mental health needs of welfare recipients, (2) to high
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Potential Employment Liabilities Among TANF

Potential Employment Liabilities Among TANF Recipients: a Synthesis of Data From Six State TANF Caseload Studies

ASPE funded a round of competitive state and local research grants to study the characteristics and circumstances of individuals and families receiving TANF cash assistance. In this report, ASPE staff merged survey data from all six studies (Colorado, the District of Columbia, Illinois, Maryland, Missouri, and South Carolina) and conducted a poole
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Study of the District of Columbia's TANF

Study of the District of Columbia's TANF Caseload

This report presents results from an in-depth study of DC's TANF recipients. The study addresses the status of TANF recipients in 2002 and challenges to work that they may face. DC surveyed a representative sample of single-parent TANF caseheads who were on the TANF rolls in August 2002. In addition to questions about employment and income, the
From: TANF "Leavers", Applicants, and Caseload Studies: Reports on Caseload
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Families on TANF in South Carolina: Employment

Families on TANF in South Carolina: Employment Assets and Liabilities

This report presents findings on the characteristics and employment barriers of families receiving TANF benefits in South Carolina's Family Independence (FI) Program. The study included in-depth telephone interviews with 1,120 case heads of families receiving TANF benefits in South Carolina during June 2002, in a research design stratified to incl
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Life on Welfare: The Active TANF Caseload In

Life on Welfare: The Active TANF Caseload In Maryland

This study of Maryland's Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) caseload was undertaken to provide policy makers and program managers with empirical data on the characteristics, circumstances, and prospects of the adults and children who currently receive cash assistance. As caseloads have declined across the country, most research and poli
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