IMHPAC: Child and Adolescent Subcommittee Approved Minutes: 02/13/2025

Meeting Minutes - February 13, 2025 - 12:30 pm via Zoom

Approved by member on 6/12/2025

Members-Michelle Churchey-Mims, Ray Connor, Michael Davis, Shirley Davis, Amy Starin

Public- Tracy Cooper

DMH staff-Lisa Betz, Christina Smith

Attendance, call to order- 12:33p
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. Amy shared information about Early Career Preparation survey and the identified areas of training/support are working with children, families and providing parent support.
New Business-
Old Business/Updates-not reviewed
1. Increase awareness of and access to PracticeWise and support PracticeWise training.
2. Provide mechanisms to fund behavioral parent training interventions in traditional and non-traditional child serving settings.
3. Increase access to flex funds.
4. Support access to web and app based SEL resources.
5. Support outcomes measurement using change sensitive client focused measures that can be electronically/automatically scored.
6. Create mechanisms to fund outreach & engagement expenses.
7. Provide mechanisms to fund dedicated supervision time for the purpose of enhancing the confidence and competence of the CMH workforce
8. Christina Smith shared information about Block grant process and identification and report out on C&A goals. The focus has been on development, implementation and staffing of the BEACON portal. The process to develop FY 26 and FY 27 goals will begin in July. The C&A committee voiced interest in helping to develop those goals.
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 4/10/25