Open Letter to Louisiana Legislature Regarding Children’s Services RE: Louisiana Legislative Audit, Access to Comprehensive and Appropriate Specialized Behavioral Health Services in Louisiana Friday, February 23, 2018 Dear Honorable Louisiana Senators and Representatives, The Louisiana Legislative Auditor released a performance audit on February 14, 2018, titled, Access to Comprehensive and Appropriate Specialized Behavioral Health Services in Louisiana. I believe performance…
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I got side-tracked on the Louisiana Board of Ethics website recently. The site is at: http://ethics.la.gov Each year I visit the Board of Ethics website and take an online course in Ethics. This time, though, I explored the site a bit and became intrigued by its robust campaign finance section. With just a few quick searches using the Board of…
Following the creation of the Louisiana Behavioral Health Partnership and continuing under Healthy Louisiana (formerly, Bayou Health), Louisiana children began being placed in other states for residential care for the first time since the 1970’s. The placement of children from one state to another is currently a hot button topic in child welfare. Some states have allowed the practice to…
Never in Louisiana’s history has our state’s child welfare system been more highly regulated. Never has so much significant change occurred in such a compressed period of time than during the last 18 months. I’ll summarize it like this: We now have federal regulations being interpreted by state regulations to create a coordinated system of behavioral health care from four…