Accelerated Access to Mental Health Services for Dependency Children and Youth:
CAATS Innovation Project

CWDA Conference/Symposium Presentation

This session will highlight how cross-system collaboration changes a system to provide universal and accelerated access to mental health services for dependency children.

Topics discussed will be:

  1.  Universal access to mental health services through a trauma lens
  2. Process improvement and systematic change through Human
  3. Services Agency-Behavioral Health partnership
  4. Accelerated access to mental health services moving from assessment to treatment
  5. CANS implementation and teaming

Panelists:

  • David Swanson Hollinger, Senior Program Manager, Ventura County Human Services Agency
  • Dina Olivas, Senior Manager, Ventura County Behavioral Health
  • Gabriela Aguila, Behavioral Health Manager, Ventura County Behavioral Health
  • Jeannene Roberts, Administrative Specialist III, Ventura County Human Services Agency

Download the CAATS Presentation