Behavioral Health Diagnoses & Treatment Services For Children & Youth Involved With The Child Welfare System

This report from The Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation's (ASPE) Office Of Human Services Policy uses claims data from the Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Programs to examine the behavioral health diagnoses and treatment services received by children and youth involved with the child welfare system in 2019. Nationally, more than 40 percent of children involved with the child welfare system -- including children and youth in foster care as well as those who had exited foster care to homes of adoptive parents or guardians -- had been diagnosed with behavioral health conditions and these children used substantially more . . .