The Synergies Of Integration: Only Time Will Tell If New Administrative Models Deliver On Their Promise
OPEN MINDS, The Behavioral Health & Social Service Industry Analyst Cover Story A growing trend in the behavioral health and social services field is a movement, at the state level, toward integration of functions or services across departments or governmental entities. This month, for example, we see Illinois planning a Children's Mental Health Screening Initiative with a single crisis hotline to refer children into three departments that deliver children's mental health services, while New Mexico is instituting an Interdepartmental Behavioral Health Purchasing Collaborative for nine state agencies that deliver behavioral health services. States seem to be seeking integration . . .