First Focus on Children invites you to join us on for a virtual congressional briefing to discuss implementation of the new 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline and the need for states to tailor it to meet the needs of children and youth with behavioral health issues. During the briefing, we will hear from three experts in child mental health services, including from two states, about how to design effective systems to respond to child and youth behavioral health crises, the benefits of mobile response systems to children and families, and the challenges in creating systems that are designed to best serve children and families.
States are currently in the process of implementing the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, and child advocates are calling on states to meet the needs of children and their families through these systems from the start. Children’s needs can be very different from adults’, and states — with assistance from the federal government — must design and create these systems to meet the needs of children, youth, and families from the beginning rather than retrofit them into an adult-designed system later. To date, 16 states have enacted legislation to implement 988. Of these states, only three have had one or more child- or youth-specific planning provisions included in their legislation.
Speakers
- Elizabeth Manley, Senior Advisor for Health and Behavioral Health Policy Institute for Innovation and Implementation University of Maryland School of Social Work, Former Assistant Commissioner, Children’s System of Care, New Jersey
- Sheamekah Williams, Director, Children, Youth, and Family Services, Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services, Oklahoma
- Tim Marshall, Senior Advisor, Institute for Innovation and Implementation University of Maryland School of Social Work, Former Director of Community Mental Health Department of Children and Families, Connecticut
Zoom Registration: https://us06web.zoom.us/webina...uwArYFTUSF2qvxB1jhYg
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