Vice President David Hughes speaks in a three part behavioral health webinar series on health insurance outreach, eligibility and enrollment

In collaboration with The National Association of State Alcohol and Drug Abuse Directors (NASADAD) and The National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors (NASMHPD), the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's (SAMHSA) Center for Financing Reform and Innovation (CFRI) presented a three part webinar series on health insurance outreach, eligibility and enrollment for the behavioral health population.

The series focused on helping state substance abuse and mental health authorities and their staff learn about, and implement, the new Medicaid and Affordable Insurance Exchange eligibility and application regulations.

Archives of the webinars may be viewed here.

National Core Indicators 2010-11 Annual Summary Report Released

HSRI and The National Association of State Directors of Developmental Disabilities Services (NASDDDS) are pleased to announce the release of the National Core Indicators 2010-11 Annual Summary Report. The Annual Summary Report highlights selected aggregate results from several of the NCI data sources. For 2010-11, particular attention was paid to the Family Surveys data.

The report is available for downloading on National Core Indicator's website.

Vice President David Hughes and Senior Vice President Steve Leff publish article on economic models for implementing jail diversion programs for persons with a mental illness

An article was recently published in the journal Criminal Justice and Behavior titled "A Simulation Modeling Approach for Planning and Costing Jail Diversion Programs for Persons with Mental Illness" with colleagues from Policy Research Associates. Apart from a general pattern of cost shifting from the criminal justice system to the community mental health system, studies on the costs of jail diversion programs have yielded limited and equivocal results. Communities have also been challenged to provide a comprehensive and appropriate set of community based mental health and substance use services.

In response to the mixed results on cost findings and lack of ideal service packages, HSRI staff members developed a simulation model to project the fiscal impact of well-designed jail diversion programs using data from criminal justice and mental health systems, the best outcome data from the literature and the HSRI computer simulation model.

The article is available for download here.

HSRI report on System Redesign released by the Illinois Council on Developmental Disabilities

The Illinois Council on Developmental Disabilities released a report compiled by HSRI that provides the state with a strategic review of its system for people with intellectual and other developmental disabilities and recommendations for improving performance. The report "Illinois at the Tipping Point: Blueprint for System Redesign Update,” builds on original work completed by HSRI in 2007, illustrating progress made by the state over the past five years and providing an updated series of "action steps."

The report is available for download on HSRI's website.

Senior Statistician Julie Bershadsky to publish article on Developmental Disabilities

A new research article authored by HSRI's Julie Bershadsky and the DD team and co-authored by the University of Minnesota's RTC colleagues is being published this fall in Public Health Reports. The article is entitled "Place of Residence and Preventive Health Care for Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Services Recipients in 20 States." It discusses the effect that a person with I/DD's type of residential arrangement has on the likelihood of them receiving recommended preventive health care.

Sarah Taub, HSRI's Project Director for National Core Indicators presents at the International Association for the Scientific Study of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities World Congress

This past July, HSRI's Sarah Taub along with Roger Stancliffe from the University of Sydney, gave a plenary session on NCI at the International Association for the Scientific Study of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities World Congress in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

The presentation is available for downloading on National Core Indicator's website.

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