Focus Area 3

Improving Youth Behavioral Health and Health Outcomes

Strategies

Maximize Resources

• Maximize behavioral health and health funding and policy changes that can benefit children, youth, and families.

Advance Whole-Child and Whole-Family Care

• Ensure a whole-child and whole-family approach to meeting the health and behavioral health needs of children and youth served by the County, particularly those involved in the child welfare system.

Align Policies and Advocacy

• Strengthen alignment of behavioral health/health policies with child welfare policies and advocate as needed with federal, state, and managed-care plan partners to support effective implementation.