What’s Driving ‘Whole Health’ For Children?

A couple weeks ago, I hosted our first annual OPEN MINDS Children's Services Executive Summit. In the opening session, The 5 Key Trends Driving Change In Children's Services, I discussed how the push for “integrated care” is changing the financing and delivery for children's services—much like it is with health care overall. But, the issues for children are unique, and the “integration” is spanning not just health care and services for children with disabilities, but also child welfare and special education services.

This market shift is illustrated by the launch of the Whole Child Model Program . . .