SSAC/Health and Wellness Committee Agenda and Minutes - 07/28/22

AGENDA

July 28, 2022; 2:00 PM

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Welcome and Introductions
Public Participation
Refine Charge Statement
- The Committees of the Social Services Advisory Council (SSAC) will identify shared priorities related to the coordination, improvement, and innovation of Illinois Department of Human Services offices and services. Specifically, The Health and Wellness Committee will:
  - Promote coordination between state/local governments and public/private partnerships.
  - Incorporate best practices from community organizations and other States.
  - Prioritize equitable access to services and supports especially for hard-to-reach populations (HTC)
  - Consider ways to better integrate and deliver behavioral and physical health services and supports.
  - Recommend new and/or changes to rules, policies, programs, and initiatives
  - Raise equity, racial justice, diversity, and inclusion issues of concern to the leadership team of IDHS
  - Look how DMH and SUPR can collaborate to address the workforce challenges. Suggest documentation/other flexibilities (EX: IM-CANS)
  - Address stigma through statewide education messages (billboards, buses etc.)
  - Review and streamline the rules relative to licensed and certified individuals
  - Look at the role of community workers and link them to certification from the Illinois Certification Board to give baseline for competency.
  - Look at state systems to determine that they are being used appropriately by providers and other system users to identify services (CAPMAN)
  - Look to see how the States FQHC system can be enhanced our brought into to address weakness in delivery of care.
  - Review transportation for individuals to obtain appointments and how to better communicate within that system.
  - Review of the State Medicaid plan and recommend improvements to the plan.
Role / Purpose of Committee
- Common priorities from February SSAC meeting
  - Investment, support, and expansion of community-based services/orgs/partners
  - Competitive employment
  - Enhanced technologies
  - Build out crisis care continuum to close gaps
  - Elevate the role of those with lived expertise
  - Person centered services
  - Prioritizing at-risk/minority communities/stakeholders
  - Independent living solutions
  - Telehealth
  - Racial equity - training
  - Feedback loop
  - Staff retention
  - Wages
- Common challenges from February SSAC meeting
  - Staffing crisis-address what positions need to be licensed and certified.
  - Increased demand
  - Capacity
  - COVID - uncertainty of timing, students in schools being sent home, virtual site visits
Selection of Committee Chair
IDHS Support Staff
Future Objectives
Housekeeping
Adjournment

*If you would like to submit a public comment, please email your comment to Katlyn.Smith@Illinois.gov by 8:00 AM, Thursday, July 28, 2022.