7/10/2015 – A year has passed since the June 2014 release of the advocacy paper, Advocacy Paper Louisiana’s Children are Being Placed Out of State. Today I would like to remind you of that paper and provide an update regarding Louisiana’s current ability to care for its own children. That we are still without a complete child welfare system in…
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Yesterday, Monday, June 2, was the last day of Louisiana’s 2014 Legislative Session. With legislative politics set aside for another year, Louisiana’s 2015 gubernatorial race now begins in earnest. Today, June 3, Louisiana United Methodist Children and Family Services releases the first in a series of child advocacy papers designed to draw the attention of Louisiana’s gubernatorial candidates toward significant…
No one wishes to hold a hot potato. Imagine attending a crawfish boil with friends. One of you scoops a potato from the pot and tosses it to a friend. It’s hot! No one will hold it long enough to feel the heat. It gets passed around quickly. Eventually, though, one of you will have the determination to withstand the…
Tomorrow marks the 18-month anniversary of DHH’s Coordinated System of Care (CSOC) and the Louisiana Behavioral Health Partnership (LBHP). This managed care system for behavioral health is still very much a work in progress. I remain hopeful that it will become something excellent for Louisiana’s children and families. However, I fear progress is showing signs of fatigue. In recent weeks…
Note: This article from May, 2013, introduced the ideas that Louisiana lacked sufficient Therapeutic Group Home services for children and that the gap in child well-being infrastructure was negatively impacting child well-being. By its own count, Louisiana needs at least 34 Therapeutic Group Homes (of no more than 8 beds each per DHH) located throughout our state. Today Louisiana has…
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…