IMHPAC: Child and Adolescent Subcommittee Approved Minutes: 10/10/2024

Meeting Minutes - October 10, 2024 - 2:00 pm via WebEx

Approved by member on February 13, 2025

  • Members-Michelle Churchey-Mims, Ray Connor, Michael Davis, Shirley Davis, Amy Starin
  • Public- Tracy Cooper
  • DMH staff-Lisa Betz
  • Attendance, call to order- 12:34a
  • Review and approval of minutes - unanimous approval
  • Overview of committee goals, mission & time frames Raise up children's issues and advise DMH and IMHPAC committee.
  • Updates from Outside Meetings related to Children's Mental Health, updates from other IMHPAC committee meetings. MCM provided information on the Building Bridges Initiative partnership between Blueprint for Transformation and DCFS-bringing trauma involved training to IL. Amy provided updates from BHWC: paraprofessional role, Trainings-Early Supervisors, MATCH, survey to understand preparedness of Early Career staff.
  • New Business- Lisa provided walkthrough of BEACON portal. Update on open positions.
  • Old Business/Updates-not reviewed
    • Increase awareness of and access to PracticeWise and support PracticeWise training.
    • Provide mechanisms to fund behavioral parent training interventions in traditional and non-traditional child serving settings.
    • Increase access to flex funds.
    • Support access to web and app based SEL resources.
    • Support outcomes measurement using change sensitive client focused measures that can be electronically/automatically scored.
    • Create mechanisms to fund outreach & engagement expenses.
    • Provide mechanisms to fund dedicated supervision time for the purpose of enhancing the confidence and competence of the CMH workforce.
  • Vote on previously proposed measures- n/a
  • Review of next steps-n/a
  • Public comments-n/a
  • The committee meets virtually on the second Thursday of even months from 12:30-1:30p. Next meeting 12/12/24