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about our research-based model for EPSDT "Behavioral Health Rehabilitation Services"

Special Announcement:  On November 21st IBC will host a conference for parents and professionals at the Eden Resort in Lancaster, Pennsylvania to explain the Medicaid funding system for Behavioral Health Rehabilitation Services (BHRS, often mistakenly called "wraparound" services in Pennsylvania) and describe how Medicaid funding for necessary treatment services for children can be easily and consistently obtained, how to identify the components and characteristics of excellent behavioral treatment services, and how to retain Medical Assistance (MA) funding for needed behavioral treatment services until the treatment plan is finished.  The keynote address will be by Dr. Robert Cormany, Executive Director of the Pennsylvania Association of Pupil Services Administrators (PAPSA).  This information was presented to an enthusiastic audience at the bi-annual Training Institutes in Nashville in July, along with outcome research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on more than 300 individual treatment plans for children with Autism spectrum disorders, ADHD and other conditions that found our treatment model to be associated with substantial behavioral change in children and worthy of further study.   

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As an advisor to the National Wraparound Initiative (NWI) since 2006, our Executive Director has been contributing to the national development of the "Wraparound" philosophy.  The Wraparound Fidelity Index was published by the NWI as a means of measuring the degree to which a given program complies with the essential principles of the wraparound philosophy.  The Institute for Behavior Change's responses to the most recent version of the Wraparound Fidelity Index, showing extremely high fidelity to the Wraparound philosophy are available here. 

 

This implementation of the Wraparound Fidelity Index has the potential for improving the extent to which providers of behavioral treatment programs, including Behavioral Health Rehabilitation Services (BHRS) under the EPSDT mandate of the Medicaid system, comply with the Wraparound philosophy.  The Institute is proud to acknowledge the appreciation expressed by leaders of the NWI for its use of the Wraparound Fidelity Index to improve the quality of care delivered to children.

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